Imagine owning the Immaculate Reception, The Catch and Tom Brady’s infamous tuck play. Or maybe you want your own personal reel of Marshawn Lynch’s Beast Quake or David Tyree’s helmet catch. Perhaps your chosen splurge would be a collection of Barry Sanders’ highlight-reel runs or every mind-blowing no-look pass that Patrick Mahomes has thrown in his career.
At the moment, it’s a fantasy, but thanks to a wildly hot and remarkably lucrative nexus of NBA highlights and fans who are willing to collect them in a limited edition digital form, it may not be long before the NFL and its players union find a way to jump into a burgeoning new collectible industry.