Pro Football Hall of Fame, Panini America Extend Partnership Agreement for Five Years
Sports card manufacturer remains exclusive distributor of Hall of Fame-branded products, sponsor of signing events CANTON, OHIO – The Pro Football Hall of Fame and sports card manufacturer Panini America have agreed to extend their partnership for five years. The deal makes Panini the exclusive distributor of trading cards featuring players, coaches and contributors elected as members of the Hall’s…
Legendary Brett Favre Begins Panini Eternal Monday Hall of Fame Tribute Series
New Pro Football Hall of Fame member and Green Bay Packers legend Brett Favre is the fitting first choice to launch Panini America's new weekly Hall of Fame tribute series that begins today on the Panini Eternal on-demand trading card platform. Each Monday for the next 20 weeks, Panini Eternal will launch one new Hall of Fame tribute card with…
Panini America Adds Rare Ink from Football Rookies, Hall of Famers to 2016 National Set
Frequent readers of The Knight's Lance already know that we started previewing the many facets of Panini America's 2016 National Sports Collectors Convention wrapper-redemption set in the last week or so. Our first post detailed the multisport base set but anyone who's ever participated in a Panini America wrapper-redemption program at the National knows the base set is only the…
Gridiron Gold: Panini America Offers Gilded Glimpse at 2015 Prizm Football (Gallery)
Over the course of the next three weeks or so, the NFL market will heat up considerably in hobby shops and in online breaks across North America. Panini America will see to that by fanning the football-collecting flames -- first with the release 2015 Playbook Football (October 28) and then with the release of 2015 Prizm Football (November 4). While we're awaiting our…
Inaugural Panini America Chalk Talk Filled with Heritage, Historic Announcement
CLEVELAND -- On a history-making Thursday in downtown Cleveland, Panini America celebrated its intimate relationship with the game of football during the company's inaugural Chalk Talk event, a star-studded gala featuring special guests -- including emcee Trent Dilfer, legendary Cincinnati Bengal Anthony Munoz, and representatives from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pop Warner and NFL Players Inc. -- and one…
Simply Spectra-cular: Panini America Offers Sweet First Look at 2013 Spectra Football
On a day when the biggest superstars in the NFL prepare to showcase their talents in the Pro Bowl, one of the biggest mysteries of the 2013 football trading card season is about to be revealed. Just what is Panini America's 2013 Spectra Football? What does it look like? When does it come out? What surprises await inside its six-pack…
Panini America Provides Early Peek at Some Unique Autos Coming to 2013 Black Friday
It's time. Panini America's 2013 Black Friday hobby shop promotion is coming. For the third straight year, Panini America will bring the nationwide shopping frenzy of Black Friday to local hobby shops all over the country with another of its now-legendary wrapper-redemption programs. In the coming weeks, The Knight's Lance will bring you everything you need to know about this…
Panini America Documents the ‘Memory of a Lifetime’ at Pro Football Hall of Fame
In the span of 14 days and five different cities, the Panini America team pulled off nothing short of a miracle in what will go down as one of busiest and most talked about stretches in company history. With teams and events in Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Canton and New Jersey, the Panini America family was everywhere, doing what it does…
Star Power: Panini America’s Exclusive Chat with Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett
As a kid growing up in the Dallas area during the 1970s, I had a front-row seat to the Cowboys' dynastic rise to "America's Team" status. As a result, I always envisioned Tony Dorsett to be way more than just one of the greatest running backs of his or any other generation. In my mind, he was a mythological masterpiece;…
Panini America Makes Its Mark During 2012 Induction Weekend at Pro Football Hall
CANTON, Ohio -- During a weekend when most football collectors were focused intently on the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore, scores of other football fans turned their attention to Induction Weekend festivities at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The one constant at both? Panini America, the Hall's official and exclusive trading card manufacturer. Indeed, while many company officials…