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Topnotchsy
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I don't often open packs anymore, after 2 decades of not pulling anything nice. Recently though, maybe because of being home for a month or otherwise, I've started taking part in a couple of breaks. Figure it's a low-cost way to engage in a break, and the results are the same since I don't really pull anything 
Recently I participated in a group break of 1997 Donruss Preferred. I had wanted to buy the Maddux slot, but it was already taken. When a Maddux Donruss Preferred Platinum was pulled, I was kinda bummed and ended up buying a box of 24 tins.
Got the tins in and they sat around for a few days as I decided if I would break them or not. I've been working insane hours trying to keep the business moving forward and it's thrown off my sleep schedule. So I was up at around 4 AM and figured it was a good time to open the box.
The box was 24 blister packs (the retail-type packs in the impossible-to-open plastic pressed sleeves, so I started opening the box. The way 1997 Donruss Preferred was designed, the cards come in little tins. Inside each tin is a plastic wrapping and the cards are inside. Opening the plastic sleeves it was clear that 23 years moving around in a tin did not do favors to the card's corners. Worked through 21 of the packs, with loads of dinged corners, some miscut. Was feeling pretty bad about the whole thing and opened the tins of the last 3 packs and stacked all the cards together before flipping through.
Went through the first of the 3 packs and still nothing. In the second, at some crazy time in the middle of the night, I pulled this card. Best card I've ever pulled by a long shot.
Recently I participated in a group break of 1997 Donruss Preferred. I had wanted to buy the Maddux slot, but it was already taken. When a Maddux Donruss Preferred Platinum was pulled, I was kinda bummed and ended up buying a box of 24 tins.
Got the tins in and they sat around for a few days as I decided if I would break them or not. I've been working insane hours trying to keep the business moving forward and it's thrown off my sleep schedule. So I was up at around 4 AM and figured it was a good time to open the box.
The box was 24 blister packs (the retail-type packs in the impossible-to-open plastic pressed sleeves, so I started opening the box. The way 1997 Donruss Preferred was designed, the cards come in little tins. Inside each tin is a plastic wrapping and the cards are inside. Opening the plastic sleeves it was clear that 23 years moving around in a tin did not do favors to the card's corners. Worked through 21 of the packs, with loads of dinged corners, some miscut. Was feeling pretty bad about the whole thing and opened the tins of the last 3 packs and stacked all the cards together before flipping through.
Went through the first of the 3 packs and still nothing. In the second, at some crazy time in the middle of the night, I pulled this card. Best card I've ever pulled by a long shot.
