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Giants’ Blake Martinez chases different kind of glory in the offseason

Passion for Pokemon cards has led Martinez into a whole different world

A giddy Blake Martinez celebrated like his New York Giants had just made a game-saving defensive stop. Only, Martinez was nowhere near a football field. He was sitting behind a desk with fellow NFL player Cassius Marsh opening Pokemon card packs as part of a “box break” card auction.

What had elicited this reaction from Martinez? In an auction that cost the buyer roughly $3,300 Martinez had just watched Marsh uncover a Charizard card worth $18,000 in a just-broken pack.

Martinez recently took a few minutes out of his offseason to chat with me about his box breaking venture.