I'll have to postpone writing about the McDonald's High School All-American Game for now because arguably the hottest topic in the industry is Beckett Exquisite Football box break video. If you haven't seen it yet, here's the link to the video.

The video has many collectors wondering if the box was purposely loaded with big cards so it would be promoted on Beckett. Sorry, I won't be commenting either way about that. Exquisite sells for $500 per box for a reason; there are a lot of cards like this in this product. While the odds of that happening are minute, it also wouldn't make sense for a company to advertise to the public that two or three of the best cards in the set are no longer available. The better publicity would be for collectors to see those same cards selling on eBay. Either way, this isn't the first time, or first card company, whose online box breaks have been called into question as far as their accuracy.

What I am writing about is what they pulled. First, what is the value of that Peterson Autographed Patch 1/1 card? The regular version is numbered to 99 and sells for anywhere from $1,525 to $2,352 on eBay. Where does that put this one? I'm guessing it's gotta be at least $5,000.

As for the Walter Payton/Brian Piccolo dual-cut signature card, I don't even have a ballpark figure for that one. I guess it might be in the $2,000-$4,000 neighborhood. To me, that was the strangest part of the video because one of the Beckett guys seemed like he'd never heard of Piccolo and the other one was explaining who he was. Piccolo is one of the most desired football autographs in the hobby. Neither seemed all that excited about a card that would probably be the best pull ever for about 99.9% of the collecting public.

Not to be outdone, I opened a box of Exquisite too. How did I do? I got a Jerricho Cotchery Signature Jersey Numbers numbered to 99, Kevin Kolb Rookie Signature Patch numbered to 225, Reggie Nelson Signature numbered to 150, Marion Barber Maximum Jersey numbered to 15, Trent Edwards Patch numbered to 50 and a Lee Evans base card numbered to 150.