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Your trading cards are made by people. Your trading cards aren't always perfect. Your trading cards are taken seriously by you -- and those who make them.

But mistakes can happen.

Most collectors haven't really thought about all the steps that go into making their trading cards -- a process that takes months with many people involved in several different locations before a single pack is shredded. As cardboard has become more complicated over the years with technology and inclusions such as autographs and memorabilia, there are even more chances at errors. And with more products and more deadlines, the chances for those errors grow, too.

Every single company has had errors of some type.

The card above? It's a 2015 Topps Triple Threads gem of Tennessee Titans QB Marcus Mariota. It's a sweet card -- a 1/1 even -- and a pricey pull, but the autograph sticker is placed on the card upside down. It was pulled by group-breaker Prestige World Wide and shown off on Twitter Sunday without a mention if its extra-odd feature.

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This year's edition of the popular high-end football brand is just a few days away, but the 2015 Topps Triple Threads checklist is here right now.

Triple Threads arrives on Friday and features “the best retired legends, veteran superstars and game-changing rookies in the NFL" and each box will include an autographed triple Relic, a triple Relic, a rookie auto Relic and a rookie jumbo Relic inside with all numbered to no more than 99 copies.

Click here to view the PDF for 2015 Topps Triple Threads football cards.

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After Black Friday, the hobby presents seven new products this week with a pair of NFL and a pair of NBA products leading the way from Panini America and Topps.

In football, arguably the biggest of them all is 2015 Topps Triple Threads, a high-end brand that features "the best retired legends, veteran superstars and game-changing rookies in the NFL." Each box will include an autographed triple Relic, a triple Relic, a rookie auto Relic and a rookie jumbo Relic inside with all numbered to no more than 99 copies.

Also coming from Topps for football will be the first gridiron take on Tek with one of the hit brands of last season in MLB getting retooled for the NFL. Inside every box of 2015 High Tek will be one autograph, one parallel and six base cards all printed on the colorful and enhanced acetate stock Tek was known for in the past.

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