Mike Cole had fallen asleep on the couch while watching a football game, and when he woke up, he logged onto the internet wanting to know which team had won. While there, he saw a headline about a ticket stub from a 1984 basketball game, which happened to be Michael Jordan’s first in the NBA. The ticket had been auctioned off and sold for $264,000. Suddenly he thought of his box. He was sure — positive — he, too, had one of those tickets. In fact, he thought he had an even more pristine ticket, without the stub ripped off.