Blake Martinez retired from the NFL because he had to catch \u2019em all.<\/p>\n
The former Las Vegas Raiders linebacker called it quits last week at just 28, telling the team he was hanging up his pads just days after recording 11 tackles in a loss to Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Martinez revealed the news on his Instagram, saying he chose \u201cto step away from this career at this time to focus on my family and future passions!\u201d Well, turns out that passion is very similar to something we all used to dabble in \u2026 trading Pokemon cards!<\/p>\n
Martinez recently sold a Pok\u00e9mon Illustrator card with a Gem Mint 9.5 rating for $672,000. Don\u2019t ask what all that means, because I don\u2019t know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Brian J. Noggle’s Facebook feed: Where you get tomorrow’s news today, albeit in a typical oracle fashion of a bit of humor is a riddle.<\/p>\n
Also, yeah, I know, I was using the Magic: The Gathering metaphor. But I was being oblique and cryptic, see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From this date in 2019: Listen, when you declare an attacker in the combat phase, your opponent can play the Blake Martinez card which drops one of your creatures before it can attack. I don’t care if your creature is 8\/8. Martinez makes the tackle. What do you mean I can’t use Green Bay Packers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-bay-packers","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30515,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions\/30515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}