It’s Back! The Celebrated Return of Panini America’s ‘Guess the Autograph’ Contest

In the more than four months since we launched The Knight’s Lance, we’ve produced several posts that have been popular with the blog’s loyal readers. From behind-the-scenes looks at the trading card process that you just won’t get anywhere else to the first video breaks of Panini America‘s best products, we seem to have struck a chord with today’s collectors.

But the most popular posts of all have been our orignal autograph-guessing contests that challenge readers to accurately guess the identities of a handful of Panini America’s recent autograph arrivals in the name of winning prizes.

In fact, they’ve been so popular that we decided to make the contest a regular part of the blog for the forseeable future. For the record, you can check out last month’s contest here.

So here we go again with our third installment . . .

Below are 15 mostly unidentified autographs — from the worlds of basketball, hockey, football and entertainment — that have arrived at company headquarters in recent days and are awaiting placement in future Panini America products. Your job is to identify is to identify them.

In the past we’ve included subtle clues with some of the signatures, but since the last contest didn’t seem to pose much of a challenge, this time around we’ve provided only the depicted signer’s noted area of expertise.

Simply provide your answers as a comment to this post. We’ll give you through the weekend to respond and the person who identifies the most autographs correctly will win a Panini prize package that includes three certified autograph trading cards (one each from the NFL, NBA and NHL) and a box of 2010 Panini America trading cards.

(In the event of a tie, one winner will be drawn at random from all correct entrants. We’ll wait until the contest ends to approve all of the entries and select the winner; no need to let everyone see everyone else’s answers.)

You have until midnight on Monday, March 7 to get your entries in. Now as always, good luck and thanks for participating.