Massive Gallery: On Location at Packout for 2011 Limited Football (54 Must-See Pics)

Panini America VP of Production Stephanie Carlson and NFL Brand Manager Carlos Torrez spent a blissful Thursday morning at the company printing facility overseeing the final pre-release stages of 2011 Limited Football. I was lucky enough to tag along. What I discovered were some of the most attractive Rookie Cards of the season, some captivating Legends base cards and, generally, a…

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Top NFL Rookies Lead List of Panini America’s New Arrivals

The not-so-distant future of Panini America football cards keeps growing brighter and brighter. With every passing day, the top rookies from the 2011 NFL Draft Class continue filling our mailbox with the most welcomed holiday packages imaginable: Autographed Rookie Cards -- and accompanying parallels and inserts -- for late-season releases such as 2011 Plates & Patches, 2011 Limited and 2011…

Future Frenzy: Recent On-Card Arrivals Sure to Highlight Panini America NFL Releases

While the football collecting world was helping themselves to a potpourri of huge hits from the just-released 2011 Certified Football for most of this week, the barrage of incoming and on-card autographs for future NFL releases such as 2011 Gold Standard, 2011 Plates & Patches and 2011 Limited continued at a steady clip. In the last few days alone (not counting Thanksgiving, of course),…

Panini Peek Gallery: 2011 Limited Football

When 2011 Limited Football releases to the collecting public in late November, it will do so sporting a bevy of new bells and whistles designed to strengthen one of the hobby's most important higher-end releases. Foremost among the product's improvements are a Material Phenoms Rookie Card subset that truly lives up to its name, Panini America's most extensive and star-studded lineup of Draft Day-worn hats and jerseys…

The Future of NFL Rookie Cards: The Signs of Greatness to Come from Panini America

How's this for cool: At this very moment, some of the most coveted and valuable Rookie Cards of the entire 2011 NFL season are stacked discreetly along an otherwise nondescript hallway at Panini America HQ, cataloged neatly inside a heaping mound of white storage boxes. Over the course of the next several weeks, Joe White, the man tasked with procuring all of Panini America's NFL autographs, will ensure…