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Marc Franklin TV films its card shows from behind the dealer's table. "72 Hours at the Miami Card Show | The Reality of Sports Card Dealing" went up on Oct. 15, 2026, and follows the channel through a weekend of buying, selling and trading at the Courtside Cardshow in downtown Miami.

The channel's description sums up the weekend in its own words: "From big wins to tough losses, this weekend was all about reading the market, making deals, and keeping business moving." It says it "went heavy on rare Allen Iverson cards, made major moves with Disney and Lightning McQueen, and picked up some rare Michael Jordan, and Cooper Flagg cards," and it does not pretend every trade paid off: "Not every deal is a winner, but that's the name of the game."

The Show

Courtside's own site gives the details. The show ran Oct. 2-4, 2026, Friday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, in Riverfront Hall at the James L. Knight Center. It bills itself as "Miami's home court for the hobby," covering sports, Pokémon and other trading card games, and it calls this October edition "Vol. 04." The organizer says that edition's dealer tables "went fast," and lists PSA, Goldin, ALT, Card Ladder and Fanatics in its pitch to sponsors. The next show is already announced: "Courtside is back in 2027," with dates still to be set.

Analysis: Those posted hours add up to 21 hours of open show floor. The "72 hours" in the title is the whole trip, and the show floor is the smaller part of it.

What the Thumbnail Shows

The thumbnail puts three PSA slabs around the host, and their labels are readable: a 2004 Topps Chrome #23 LeBron James Black Refractor graded MINT 9, a 1998 Skybox Thunder #8 Allen Iverson Noyz Boyz graded NM-MT 8, and a 2025 Topps Chrome Update Cooper Flagg autograph in Gold Geometric, also MINT 9. PSA's cert records match all three labels. The Iverson is one of 32 copies of that card at NM-MT 8, with 46 graded higher.

The description's Iverson and Flagg mentions line up with two of them. The video shows where each one fits in the weekend.

The Channel

This is the first time Marc Franklin TV has been picked for Video of the Day. Its recent uploads show a pattern. The Miami video is the third long-form "72 Hours at the … Card Show" upload in a month, after "72 Hours at the Dallas Card Show | Starting With $0 Cash" on Sept. 17 and "72 Hours at the Philly Card Show | $75,000+ in Sports Card Deals" on Oct. 2. The other twelve of its 15 most recent uploads are short clips, and eight of them are titled as a "Sports Card Negotiation" over a single deal, with the dollar figure up front: "$16,000 Sports Card Negotiation for an ICONIC 1990s Kobe Bryant," or an "$8,000 Michael Jordan Sports Card Negotiation" that "Comes Down to a COIN FLIP."

Analysis: For this channel, the deal is the content. The long show videos and the short single-deal clips both put the negotiation itself on camera, not only the finished trade. Whether that adds up to "the reality of sports card dealing," as the title puts it, is the channel's claim to make.

What to Watch For

The description promises "nonstop negotiations, coin flips, familiar faces, and thousands of dollars in sports card deals." The video is where you see how those negotiations play out: the Iverson buying, the Disney and Lightning McQueen moves, and which deals the channel counts among the losses.

Verdict: Marc Franklin TV spends a Courtside weekend on the dealer's side of the table, and its uploads make clear that the deals themselves are the show. Watch it for the negotiations, and for the deals the channel admits it got wrong.

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Channel: Marc Franklin TV