Two Connecticut Brothers' Target Parking-Lot Pull Could Be Worth Seven Figures

Two brothers in Griswold, Connecticut, may be the luckiest trading card aficionados ever.

Trevor and Lucas Martell, 18 and 23, purchased a Tom Brady trading card pack at a Target in Lisbon, Connecticut, and opened it in the store’s parking lot.

Immediately, they knew they had stumbled upon something unusual: the card is a one-of-a-kind, jewel-encrusted Garbage Pail Kids card featuring the football player, and it could be worth six or seven figures.

Most trading card packs are worth “pennies,” according to one of the brothers who spoke to WFSB of Hartford, Connecticut. The brothers had a 1-in-10.5-million chance of getting this special Tom Brady card in their pack.

After considering the card’s rarity, the brothers brought it to Carmine Lorusso at the Treasure Chest, a collectibles store in Mystic, Connecticut. Lorusso, who owns the store, knew immediately that it was something incredibly special.

“I knew it was a bigger card than what I would ever put in the store myself, so I knew it had to go to professionals,” he told WFSB.

The brothers have had the card authenticated and listed it through a Fanatics auction, which is scheduled to close on the 19th. According to WFSB, the card is expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not a million.

Tom Brady, whose face graces the coveted card, is a lifelong card collector himself. He co-founded CardVault by Tom Brady, a card shop, in 2024. It touts itself as a “national retailer dedicated to sports cards, trading cards, and collectibles.”

Related: In 2010, art dealer Forrest Fenn hid a $2 million treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains; a medical student who found it a decade later sold pieces of it for $1.3 million

This story was originally published by Parade on Nov 13, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.