Rated Rookies – The Menendez Bros.

Dust off your Beckett Magazine folks cuz Sports Cards are officially BACK!!!!

Reddit users recently discovered an old Mark Jackson basketball card that had some infamous spectators in the background:

Reddit is mostly bad but the other day I learned on that website that the Menendez Brothers are in the background of this basketball card and that logistically this would be between when they killed their parents and when they were arrested and I cannot stop thinking about it. pic.twitter.com/fMb5ugLX2m

— John Rosenberger (@JohnJohnPhenom) December 8, 2018

Of course Super Nerd Darren Rovell was on the case immediately, checking facts and trying to ruin all the fun:

This checks out. Menendez murder happened Aug. 20, 1989. Brothers were apprehended March 1990. Photo was taken at MSG in 1989-90 season and set came out before 1990-91 season. https://t.co/n2vzRBA6Sg

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 8, 2018

1990-91 Hoops Mark Jackson card, now being listed on eBay as Menendez Brothers card, has been selling in the $15-$20 range today. Last week, it was 15 to 20 cents. pic.twitter.com/qZEoLjUr4g

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 8, 2018

Super Nerd Strikes Gold!

Happened to have two boxes of 1990-91 Hoops packs in my basement. 28 packs in the newly discovered Mark Jackson/Menendez Bros. card! pic.twitter.com/4t0vWWVIou

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 8, 2018

My Mark Jackson card has now been put in my collection, in a plastic sleeve, behind my graded Billy Ripken F Face. pic.twitter.com/lNkPbcWT5C

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 8, 2018

What could be more on brand for Super Nerd than to happen to have 2 boxes of 1990-91 NBA cards in his basement? Nothing. Cuz that’s why he’s Super Nerd and you’re not.