Panini Peek: 2019 Gold Standard Football (Preview Gallery)
Full disclosure: In the interest of time (and playing catch-up), we’re dedicating the rest of today here at The Knight’s Lance to previewing in rapid-fire fashion the newest products that have been solicited by the Panini America sales team in recent weeks. By our count, we’ve yet to post preliminary product information on eight recent product solicitations from the worlds of baseball, basketball and…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Gold Standard Football (100+ Images)
This week, pigskin purists get the chance to strike gold once again. On Wednesday, Panini America's 2018 Gold Standard Football arrives in hobby shops across North America boasting a tried-and-true treasure trove of calling-card inclusions. From its unique, gold-bar-influenced packaging to the even more unique contents inside that packaging, 2018 Gold Standard Football is equipped to impress with single-, double-…
Fireworks Display: Panini America Previews 2018 Gold Standard Football (Gallery)
It’s become something of a tradition here on The Knight’s Lance to showcase our own brand of Panini America fireworks on Independence Day in the form of an absolutely explosive gallery showcasing an upcoming product. Today, as we all prepare to celebrate this Fourth of July, we’re doing it again. So before you set out with family and friends to celebrate our nation’s independence…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Gold Standard Football (Gallery)
Hundreds of years from now, hobby historians may indeed be debating whether or not this is the Golden Age of football collecting. Regardless the verdict, credit Panini America's Gold Standard Football franchise for doing its part to make it so. From its bold beginning back in 2011, Gold Standard Football has always lived up to its name by delivering an…
NFL Legend LaDainian Tomlinson Stars in a Special Episode of Panini Unwrapped
Last weekend, before he served as a special guest at the annual Panini VIP Party, new Pro Football Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson sat down with Panini America's Tracy Hackler for a special episode of Panini Unwrapped. While breaking new products such as 2017 Pantheon Football and 2017 Gold Standard Football, one of the greatest running backs in NFL history…
Base-Set Variations Bring Chase, Intrigue to 2017 Gold Standard Football (Checklist)
One of the most interesting — but perhaps less-heralded — aspects of Panini America’s 2017 Gold Standard Football is the inclusion of veteran base-set Team and Photo Variations that have all of the necessary ingredients to create a feeding frenzy for the rarest versions among impacted player collectors. This Gold Standard ritual actually began with the inaugural Gold Standard Basketball in…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2017 Gold Standard Football
Following a five-year hiatus, Panini America's Gold Standard Football brand will make its long-awaited return to the collecting landscape tomorrow. In hobby shops across North America, the gold rush will be on once again. On average, each seven-card hobby box of 2017 Gold Standard Football will deliver five autograph or memorabilia cards and two base or parallel cards. As you…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 Gold Standard Football (100+ Pics)
For the first time in a long time, football collectors are on the verge of being able to strike gold . . . again. Despite a successful debut in 2011, Panini America's popular Gold Standard brand -- with its top-to-bottom golden glow, Hall of Fame content, real diamonds and more -- has been away from the market for the last…
Simply . . . Golden: Panini America Prepping Gold Standard Football’s Big Comeback
Has it really been that long? It seems unfathomable, frankly, that Panini America's gilded Gold Standard Football franchise last appeared as a standalone product in 2011, when the likes of Cam Newton, Von Miller, A.J. Green and Julio Jones were but wet-behind-the-ears rookies and the Gold Standard brand was making a splash in the NBA market. But after that one-season…
Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2016-17 Gold Standard Basketball
Year after gilded year, Panini America's fabled Gold Standard Basketball brand continues delivering on those key brand tenants that helped the product debut to an overwhelmingly warm welcome when it first released during the 2010-11 NBA season. Aside from subtle design tweaks and the occasional introduction of new inserts, the Gold Standard formula has remained largely unchanged from those golden…