Bounty Kingz<\/a>. They livestreamed from their homes at the time, with Pozzebon in London and\u00a0Cuglietta in the Sault.<\/p>\n“Every Friday,\u00a0we’d rip boxes and do stupid things and act like idiots, right?” said\u00a0Pozzebon.<\/p>\n
On a phone call at the time,\u00a0Cuglietta recalls his cousin saying, ‘I just can’t wait to be around cards.’<\/p>\n
“So then the thought hit me, I said, ‘You know what? Why don’t we try our hand and maybe open up a sports card shop?’ Legitimately, that was the whole conversation,” said\u00a0Cuglietta, who also\u00a0owns and operates Identity Salon in the east end.<\/p>\n
Pozzebon said it took his wife about five minutes to say yes to the plan, which required their family to move from London\u00a0to Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n
Open for almost a week,\u00a0Pozzebon\u00a0said he’s thrilled with the community’s response to the store.<\/p>\n
“The Sault is incredible. The support and people that came through these doors in the first few days has been unreal. People from high school I haven’t seen since graduation\u00a0coming in and supporting us and\u00a0welcoming me home,” said\u00a0Pozzebon.<\/p>\n
“They brought their kids in,\u00a0because\u00a0of course we’re all old now.”<\/p>\n
Pozzebon said some people collect sports cards and collectible card games like Pokemon\u00a0solely in the hopes of making money finding rare cards, while others chase the feeling you get when you find something rare in a pack.<\/p>\n
“When you pull it out, you’re going to remember where you pulled it, who you were with\u00a0and the excitement you felt. It doesn’t matter how many times you look at that card \u2014 it’s kind of a nostalgia thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
The store name ‘One of One’ is actually based on a completely unique card\u00a0Pozzebon\u00a0got from a pack a few years ago, which rekindled his interest in the hobby.<\/p>\n
“I think I paid $50 for the box and I ended up pulling a one of one David Beckham autograph. That’s what got me going again. I’m like, ‘really? You can pull this out of a $50 box?'” he said.<\/p>\n
One of One\u00a0even has a table for customers to do their own card breaks and box breaks, if they choose to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Franco Cuglietta and Stephen Pozzebon, cousins born two weeks apart, have launched a Gore Street sports card and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,275328],"class_list":["post-776531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-franco-cugliettastephen-pozzebonone-of-one-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}