Patrick Mahomes, 2019 Immaculate Collection
Main reasons to invest
Return Potential📈: An investment of 500 EUR is projected to be worth approximately 1,311 EUR in 5 years.
Cost-to-Return Ratio⚖️: With just 2.9% annual total costs (including exit fees), your net profit could be 21.3% per year.
Highly Limited Card🪪: Only four Mahomes' Immaculate Premium Patch 1 of 1 cards, a famous auto patch brand, are ever produced throughout Mahomes career, and each includes a large piece of his sports memorabilia (Patch) and an autograph directly signed on the card. And this card is a 1 of 1, hence only one card (with this exact configuration of having a large tag as the patch) was released to the market. In addition, the athlete signed the card personally (Auto). Mahomes’ best card, an auto patch (including a piece of his sports memorabilia and signature) 1of1 card, sold for 4.3M dollars, which sets the ceiling and underlines the potential of our card.
Description
Why investing in American Football Cards from Panini?
NFL / American Football is the most popular sports in the US, for example, the average viewership in Super Bowl is 123.4M vs NBA Finals’ 11.64M and MLB’s World Series’ 9.1M. It is also popular in Europe. Mahomes’ Chiefs vs Tua’s Dolphins was played in Germany last season. One of the reasons is the intrinsic attraction of the sports, in both physicality and dynamic plays, but also the game plans and matchups. One game per week and almost fixed time slot make it a must watch event in most households in the US. On average 17.9M people watch regular season games, beating all other sports by far.
Panini Group
Was founded in 1961 and entered the US card manufacturing via PaniniAmerica since 2009. They have exclusive license to produce NBA cards since 2009 and exclusive license to produce NFL cards since 2016. This means Mahomes licensed cards so far will be Panini cards.
Immaculate Collection
This is a top 3 Panini auto patch highend brand, and is the most prestigious in terms of lineage among the three. The original creator for Immaculate is the creator for Exquisite Brand for Upper Deck and his vision and set composition have been followed closely ever since the inaugural release in basketball in 2012-13.
Premium Patch brand
This is one of best Panini auto patch brands, and it features a large patch (piece of sports memorabilia of the athlete) and on-card autograph by the athlete. The 1 of 1 parallel is the most exclusive and desirable version. Mahomes has only two years of Premium Patch 1/1 in total of 4 cards in Pro uniform, 2 in 2017 rookie year and 2 in 2019 the first Super Bowl winning year. There has not been any on card autograph of Mahomes since mid of 2020. The current card offered is the first championship winning year auto patch 1 of 1 with on-card autograph in a most well-known Premium Patch brand in top 3 Panini auto patch product with most historical lineage for the best active NFL player.
Design
This is the first Mahomes Premium Patch in acetate surface, the most highend rendering of a card with a contemporary art feel. Acetate is a type of plastic that is clear or translucent, and often used in various applications for its optical clarity and durability. In the context of trading cards, it's a translucent plastic that is used to give a distinct look and feel to the card. The patch features a giant tag of NFL shield and nike swoosh. Auto (autograph) rated 10 by BGS is immaculately struck on this slippery acetate surface which is hard.
Why invest in this Patrick Mahomes card?
Mahomes’ best card, an auto patch 1of1 card, sold for 4.3M dollars. In football collecting world for ultra modern cards (post 2009), the best cards are quarterback (QB) cards, which also match QB’s salaries being the highest in the team. In 2020, Mahomes signed a 10-year contract of $477M.
A Dominant NFL Force
Mahomes is the best player in NFL. Winning 3 Super Bowls (SB) in 4 SB appearances of his 7 year NFL career, on track of catching Brady’s 7 rings in 23 years, and has a chance to threepeat (winning 3 in a row) in this upcoming season which has never been done in NFL. He won both SB MVP and MVP in 2022, first time since 1999. He won back to back SB in 2023 (last season), first time since 2003. Mahomes’ rookie season is 2017 and only played one game (which is enough for the team to move on from previous good quarterback), and he was already MVP (most valuable player) with 5097 yards and 50 touchdowns in 2018 his sophomore year (his first year of full starting), and won the Super Bowl Championship during his third year, namely the release year of this card offered.
Mahomes’ Championship Era
The first championship winning year, ushering the Mahomes era of NFL where he has gone to all 6 straight AFC championship game since full starting, 4 super bowl appearances and winning 3 in his young career. This makes Mahomes safest and most exciting active NFL athlete to collect. He is poised to threepeat this season which has never been done before and is a massive price trigger.
Exclusive On-card Autograph and Patches
On-card autograph with an appealing patch/tag and highest tier 1 of 1 parallel. Mahomes has only four Premium Patch in Pro uniform ever, 2 in rookie years (with astronomical price tag if ever available) and 2 in 2019, despite 7 years of card manufacturing. And Mahomes has not signed on-card since mid 2020. This makes this card extremely exclusive in rarity across all years and protected from further dilution (no auto since mid 2020 and Fanatics will take over the NFL license in 2026).
Mahomes’ Record-Breaking
Mahomes at age of 28 in season 7 has already third most playoffs win in NFL history (1 win shy from Montana) when QB can play until the age of 43 for 23 seasons. Mahomes is 5 th in playoffs passing touchdown and number 2-4 have played 16-20 seasons and he is only 4 shy from number 2. Mahomes in second in fourth quarter comeback at 5 (tied with Montana) in 7 seasons when Brady and Montana played 23 and 16 seasons. He is super clutch at key moments, accurate with big arms and can scramble out of pocket to create. His coach Andy Reid is widely regarded as top 2 greatest football coach. Mahomes has the same amount of rings as all other active starting QB in NFL combined (Rodgers, Stafford, Wilson) as we are about to enter the 2024 season.
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