Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football

Higher education has rarely looked so spectacular. On November 15, Panini America will usher in a new era of collegiate collecting with the grand debut of 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football, raising the bar on the genre with a decidedly Flawless spin that includes on-card autographs, cut autographs, jewel-embedded cards and Rookie Patch Autographs. The product offers an upscale tribute to the storied past of the game with a checklist brimming with Heisman Trophy winners and All-Americans from the last nine decades.

Higher education has rarely looked so spectacular. On November 15, Panini America will usher in a new era of collegiate collecting with the grand debut of 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football, raising the bar on the genre with a decidedly Flawless spin that includes on-card autographs, cut autographs, jewel-embedded cards and Rookie Patch Autographs. The product offers an upscale tribute to the storied past of the game with a checklist brimming with Heisman Trophy winners and All-Americans from the last nine decades.

On average, each briefcase of 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football (two briefcases per case) will deliver six autographs, two additional autograph or memorabilia cards, and two base or parallel cards featuring diamonds, sapphires, rubies or emeralds. Every autograph in the product will be either on-card or a cut autograph from inserts such as Rookie Patch Autographs, Rookie Autographs, Dual Patch Autographs, Patch Autographs, Flawless Team Logo Signatures, Flawless Dual Signatures, Dual Diamond Memorabilia Autographs, Premium Ink and Flawless Team Slogan Signatures.

As you might imagine, highlights of 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football are many and include . . .

• Flawless Cuts featuring 1/1 cut signatures from college football legends such as Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Layne, Derrick Thomas, Crazy Legs Hirsch and more.
• Find rare Conference Patches, Bowl Game Patches and Brand Logos in the Rookie Patch Autographs insert.
• All autographs are numbered to 25 or less.
• Randomly inserted college-specific briefcases honoring Alabama, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford, Texas and USC.
• Look for precious gems in the Base Diamond (numbered to 20), Ruby (numbered to 15), Sapphire (numbered to 10), Emerald (numbered to five) and Oversized Diamond (1/1).
• Team Slogan Signatures features on-card autographs paired with well-known team slogans numbered to 25 or less. Look for Peyton Manning, Earl Campbell, Tim Tebow, Mark Ingram, Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota and more.
• Flawless Dual Signatures features on-card autographs from college teammates of yesterday and today such as Emmitt Smith/Tim Tebow, Deshaun Watson/Mike Williams, Billy Sims/Samaje Perine and more.
• The spectacular Flawless Team Gems (all 1/1s) features school logos with color-coordinated gemstones inserted into the design. Schools included are Alabama, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford, Texas and USC.

We’ll have more on 2017 Flawless Collegiate Football in the coming weeks right here on The Knight’s Lance. Bout for now, enjoy this extended sneak peek:

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