How much the former Giants’ linebacker Blake Martinez made in seven months while selling Pokemon cards has been revealed and it’s huge! According to the New York Post, he made a whopping $5 million;
CNBC Make It reported that Martinez has made more than $5 million in the seven months since launching Blake’s Breaks, his company that sells Pokémon cards on the platform Whatnot. It was a side venture that Martinez had reportedly started during the COVID-19 pandemic, but his personal connection with Pokémon cards dates back to when he was younger and collected them.
“Every single day when I wake up, my shoulder doesn’t hurt and my back doesn’t hurt anymore,” Martinez told CNBC Make It. “When all that hurts are my fingers from opening, like, 1,000 packs of cards per day, I think, ‘I’m going to keep doing this.’”
His mother gave that original collection of Pokémon cards away, Martinez said, but he started another collection that eventually led to live sessions on Whatnot — where he opened the packages and “auctioned the cards off one by one,” CNBC Make It wrote. He even sold one card for $672,000 in October, though that one was sold through Goldin Auctions, according to USA TODAY’S Touchdown Wire.
Martinez launched Blake’s Breaks in July 2022, while he was still a member of the Giants. He suffered a torn ACL during the 2021 season, and the team released him a year later after a disconnect with the new coaching staff, including defensive coordinator Wink Martindale.
One month later, though, he reunited with former New York defensive coordinator Patrick Graham in Las Vegas. He only played in four games with the Raiders, starting two, before retiring after a seven-year career that started in Green Bay — where the Packers made him a fourth-round pick in 2016.
This is impressive! Much better than getting an concussion every week.
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