- We are gonna look back and watch this video
many years from now in disgust.
- And cringe.
It's not because we hate sport cards,
we wanna destroy them.
- [Geoff] It's all right, I'm going in.
- Don't cut open your cards. - Oh, look at that.
(suspenseful music)
- Check out this cool graffiti wall behind me.
Welcome back to What's Inside.
Today, we're going to see what's inside
of a sports card, but not just any sports card.
They call it a rookie patch auto, an RPA.
An autograph card, auto is for autograph,
but they take a patch of the jersey
and put it inside of the card.
So like a game worn jersey, they put it inside of a card.
Yes, there are sports cards that are like this,
and some of them are the most coveted,
most valuable, most rare.
But what I want to see today is how does it work?
We are with our friend, Geoff, the Sports Card Investor.
This is him, this is Geoff.
- Hey Dan, welcome!
- [Dan] We just filmed an awesome video on your channel
looking at your sports card collection.
Let's not destroy any of those valuable ones, all right?
- You got it.
- Here's a little side note.
I had the perfect card that I was gonna bring
to take apart for this segment.
And I left it at home all the way in Utah.
Now we're in Atlanta.
So you've got some cards.
Show me the cards that you have
that we could potentially just donate.
- Sure, I brought a few out.
So if you want to go basketball,
this is a Malik Monk rookie patch auto,
as we were talking about there, that's pretty cool.
- [Dan] Spectra brand.
- This one's interesting,
Kevin Huerter's rookie auto card,
because it's got not only a some of his jersey,
but it's got a little bit of a basketball in there as well.
So it's got four different little patches of things.
This is an old baseball throwback card.
It's a actually got a little bit of John Smoltz in there,
an Atlanta legend.
And so this is pieces of,
I think that's a piece of a bat there
along with a couple of jersey pieces
so we could try that one.
This is your, kind of your standard rookie patch auto.
This is from National Treasures,
Very, very sought after cards.
This is Corey Davis of the Tennessee Titans.
And then this is an interesting one, Miles Sanders,
'cause this actually got a little bit of his helmet
in there I believe.
I think that's what that is,
I think they put a little bit of his helmet possibly
in that card for Miles Sanders' rookie card.
Or you got this personal card I love,
you've got the booklet card.
There's so much going on in these booklet cards.
It's like essentially a double card.
This is Jalen Reagor,
a rookie wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles.
This is his college...
- When it comes to rookie patch autos,
the reason why I do want to take apart some of these things
is because I've actually purchased quite a few
for my own personal collection.
This is a Donovan Mitchell flawless card.
It's number 9 out of 10.
It is graded at PSA 10.
This is part of his game worn jersey
and they put it inside of the card.
I love that.
Which card you want to cut up today?
- Well, I think the one that might be
most interesting to see what's inside,
the one I'm most excited to see what's inside
(ominous music) is probably this booklet card
just because it's got so much going on.
I love these booklet cards.
They've got the big patch of the player's jersey,
and then they've got an additional patch
of the player's jersey
with the lettering cut out over there
and then he signed it
but he signed it on kind of a shadow box type thing.
So I think it's gonna be really interesting
to take this one apart,
even though it's a good card,
even though he's a good first round draft pick,
I still think we got to cut into this one,
take it apart and see what's inside.
- There we go.
We have a razor blade.
It's been a while since we've cut something open on here
and we have some scissors.
And the good news is
here is the card right here.
A National Treasures,
two patches in here.
So two jersey patches and an autograph inside.
This is going to be an interesting one.
I'm sorry, Jalen Raegor.
Sorry. We're destroying your card.
- Hey, all that means is that all the other people
who own Jalen Raegor cards, they're now more rare.
- That's true.
- 'Cause there's one less than existence.
- What is the number?
So there's 99 of these.
You'll know for sure that one of them is destroyed.
I've seen these cases with the metal.
Do you know how to open these with the metal?
- Yeah. So this is just simply magnetic.
So you just kind of put your fingers on the edge there
and that's the first part of opening it right there.
Look at that.
- Perfect. Okay.
Usually we're so careful.
Now these are, this isn't just like your regular card.
This is a booklet.
- Right, that's a booklet.
So that's kind of a real sought after type of card.
They're cool.
So they'll come in the pack, they'll come like that.
But then when you pull one out, you're always excited.
'Cause you're like, Oh my gosh, this is,
this card is going to have a little more to it
and you open it up and you're like
oh man, look at that.
Auto, patches, you know,
that's a pretty slick card.
You know, that's kind of cool.
- Horned Frogs.
For all those times,
one time, the longest game of my life I ever went to
(sad music) was BYU versus TCU.
It was at BYU.
I think it went into like triple overtime
and everybody stood up the entire game
and it was like seven hours long.
And we lost like 50 to 51, something like that.
All right, Geoff,
is it okay that we're doing this?
- I'm okay we're doing this.
There might be some hardcore card collectors
out there who aren't,
aren't liking what they're about to see.
But look, I'm excited to know what's inside these cards.
I collect these cards.
I love these RPA rookie patch auto cards.
I want to see what's inside.
- Obviously there's going to be a patch of a jersey inside
but here's some of the questions.
Is it put in there with tape?
Do they have like some duct tape on the side?
Did they use some glue,
some adhesive around the entire bottom of it?
'Cause I would think if you did
glue on the whole section down here
then there's a chance it would bubble up or look weird.
We have to know this,
and the only way we can know
is to destroy it.
- And what is the,
how much jersey is actually in there?
And what do the edges look like?
Is it frayed?
I'm very curious to see what we're about to see
- Science,
that's what we're doing here.
Science.
All right, I'm going in.
This is now a PSA six.
- Oh yeah, that definitely went down on the grade scale.
Don't grade it now.
It's, we, we're past the point of no return.
- Oh baby.
Oh wow, that's in there tight.
Okay. I'm trying to be a little careful with it
which sounds weird.
The first incision has been made.
I'm going to use my fingers now for this part.
Oh yeah.
We're pulling it back.
Oh, that is definitely a zero on the scale there.
- Yeah, we've lost the grade.
They would no longer authenticate it.
- Interesting.
I find this interesting.
The first part right here, you can feel,
it's just like a cover,
like this whole section right here
is just taped on there.
- Interesting.
So you're saying that this is actually
like a separate printed layer.
So it's almost like they printed that
as a separate card and then glued it down.
- Yeah, so the booklet comes the way it comes.
- Interesting.
Okay, yeah.
So that's...
- And there's the top of it.
- So that's the top of it.
So that actually, that's interesting
because this is actually kind of like the thickness
of a standard cardboard card.
So they probably use the same printing process here
as they would have used for a lot of their different cards.
And it's just kind of a standard
you know, thickness cardboard card
that just got pasted on.
- Yeah, there we go.
- [Geoff] Okay. And then same thing on the back.
It's the same deal.
Interesting.
So that's, same deal.
So that's the same type of thickness
of a cardboard card as you would expect a normal card to be.
And yet that's just the back of the booklet
pasted on whatever this middle piece is.
- Yep.
How many of these do you have?
- No, that's the only one.
Put your own...
- I won't cut your table.
I can see it in there.
I just want to see,
it doesn't go any further.
- [Geoff] It doesn't go any further
so that patch, yeah.
That's the edge of the patch.
- It really gets pretty square.
- The patch was the exact size
of the window around the patch.
There's really no more patch hidden under there.
- That surprised me a little bit.
I thought maybe it would be
like bigger and they would tape it.
I'm going to grab from here.
I'm gonna pull this off.
- [Geoff] All right, let's see what we got.
- [Dan] I think it's just some adhesive.
- [Geoff] Look at that.
- [Dan] Oh, okay.
- [Geoff] So they use something...
- It's like the double sided adhesive tape.
- And a matter of fact
it's actually got the player's name
and like a, some type of number
corresponding to the patch on the back of it.
- Think about the employees that work at these companies,
they are not going to know exactly,
like this jersey goes with this player.
There's going to be thousands of jerseys
that are game worn from different players.
There's gotta be a way to itemize it.
There it is on the back.
You put the adhesive with the identifier of
whose jersey that is
and what card pack it's supposed to go into.
- Well now, you know, it's legitimately his jersey.
So that's good.
- Yeah, I mean, if you're watching Panini
and you want to open the curtain for us
and have us come check it out,
we're happy to do it.
Okay. This one has the autograph on it
and it also has the jersey.
I want to see again, if it has...
- Now is you think this is probably
one continuous piece of jersey there, right?
We would assume.
It would be hard to have lots of little segments of it.
- It looks like it.
And then if it's anything like the other one,
we should just have a top layer that we can just pull off
right here.
Oh, I didn't go deep enough on it.
Oh, well
- I'm curious that signature,
what's that sitting on top of
it's kind of a clear...
- Yeah, it's a shiny signature.
- So there we go.
So yup, it was cut.
Another piece of jersey
cut exactly to the width necessary
to appear below this.
- Can we get it so we can see the name on it again?
There it is.
Ooh. I kind of lost some of it
but you can see inside of there.
There's the name.
- You want me to try to get the...?
- See if you can get the signature out.
Don't hurt yourself. - What's that signature on?
It is on a piece of clear plastic,
like clear acetate plastic.
Yeah, so there we go. - Interesting.
- So he signed,
so what they must have done
is they must have sent him a whole bunch of these to sign,
and they just said sign these clear plastic pieces
and it's not sticky or anything.
It's just a piece of clear plastic.
- If you're somebody that's looking to collect
certain types of cards
I definitely recommend the rookie patch autos
or even just the patch autographs.
It has part of the jersey,
it also has the autograph.
So hopefully they'll hold value for a long time.
And then a lot of these are numbered,
they're low numbers.
This one was 99.
Hopefully this guy has a massive year.
So what's his name again?
Jaylen?
- Jaylen Reagor.
- Jaylen, I hope you kill it with the Philadelphia Eagles.
- If he is in the hall of fame someday
we are going to look back and watch this video
many years from now in disgust.
- And cringe.
- And cringe, and cringe.
What did we do to his rookie patch card?
This is a unique piece of memorabilia.
- Torn apart by Dan from What's Inside, and Geoff.
Geoff, sorry, you had to be part of this sad thing,
but hey, we figured something out.
- Hey, it was fun to do.
Now we know what's inside a rookie card.
Very cool.
- If you haven't seen the video already
where we went through
Geoff's amazing collection,
multimillion dollars worth of cards,
it is worth a watch.
If you watched it once,
feel free to go watch it again.
Make sure you check out Sports Card Investor channel.
I'm going to put a link in the description.
Lots of really good resources for those of you
that want to invest in sports cards
or beef up your own personal collection.
There's a few different tools that can help you do it
in a good way so that you hopefully don't lose any money
and you actually make some money off of making cards.
So Geoff, thanks for letting me come out.
This is fun.
- Appreciate it, Dan, thank you.
- Check out his channel,
it's pretty cool.
All right.
See you guys, bye.
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