Ocean Sidelines Podcast: Welcome Kevin Randall, the man who sold Tom Brady football cards

We’re back with a fresh episode of the Ocean State Sidelines podcast. This episode’s guest is Kevin Randall, who spends his winters coaching boys basketball at Burrillville High School. Randall is also heavy into the sports card trading/selling world and experienced a viral moment last month when he sold cards to Tom Brady at a show in NYC.

PODCAST BREAKDOWN (31 minutes, 1 second)

1:05 – Tracing the origins of Kevin’s passion for collecting.

2:50 – Touching up some hobby trends.

4:44 – Making the switch from full-time high school teacher to full-time collector & why Kevin’s wife Melissa deserves a ton of credit for giving her blessing to make a career change.

13:39 – Building a collection of Tom Brady cards that in many ways has become the envy of the collecting industry.

15:40 – Learning that Brady might be stopping by to check out the collection at a show sponsored by Fanatics.

19:44 – Interacting with TB12 with so many crowding around the table and helped create a “viral” moment.

21:30 – A second wave of attention after Brady linked the video of him buying cards to his Instagram account.

22:07 – Thanking Tom Brady and not messing up the dab.

23:49 – Origin behind “dacaptain37”

26:37 – Pivoting to high school basketball, the challenges of scheduling games under the RPI format.