NFL football player retired at 28 after selling a Pokemon card for 672k dollars
Blake Martinez is a very good football player, and he was just in the NFL a couple of weeks ago. Well, the former Giants linebacker just decided to hang up his cleats at 28.
The news was shocking because he was on the Raiders’ roster a couple of weeks ago and had a great week racking up 11 tackles.
Well, Martinez posted on IG that he planned “to step away from this career at this time to focus on my family and future passions!”
Martinez has a company called Blakes Breaks that collects and trades rare cards and flips them for a nice chunk of change.
Well, his future passion just made him 672k dollars.
Martinez recently sold a Pokémon Illustrator card with a Gem Mint 9.5 rating for $672,000. According to Whistle, Blake has made 2.3 million in selling Pokemon Cards….
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