Panini Unwrapped “In-Home” Edition: The New 2011 Plates & Patches Football

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvLrMPmbk_I&w=585&h=426] In this special "in-home" edition of Panini Unwrapped, Panini America's Tracy Hackler rips through one autograph-intensive box of the new 2011 Plates & Patches Football. What Super Bowl XLVI participants will he uncover? What on-card-autographed, prime-piece memorabilia Rookie Card did he pull? Watch and find out.

The Panini America Insert Set Inspection: 2011 Plates & Patches Football City Limits

As collectors and fans across the country finalize their fantasy football lineups and settle in for another glorious day full of crucial NFL action, we thought now might be a good time to showcase the geographically grounded, landmark-laced City Limits insert from Panini America's upcoming 2011 Plates & Patches Football set. The unique chase sets many of the game's top stars…

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),…

Drool Gallery: A Pre-Autograph Peek at the 2011 Plates & Patches Football RCs (Part 2)

  There are manifold benefits emanating from Panini America’s effort to acquire more on-card autographs for its roster of 2011 NFL products. First and foremost, obviously, is that collectors want more on-card autographs. But one of the real hidden beauties of the process is that it requires the actual cards being signed be completed way earlier than normal – which…

Drool Gallery: A Pre-Autograph Peek at the 2011 Plates & Patches Football RCs (Part 1)

There are manifold benefits emanating from Panini America's effort to acquire more on-card autographs for its roster of 2011 NFL products. First and foremost, obviously, is that collectors want more on-card autographs. But one of the real hidden beauties of the process is that it requires the actual cards being signed be completed way earlier than normal -- which means we get our first look at the…

Panini Peek: 2011 Plates & Patches Football

For those football collectors who've yet to start filling out your holiday wish lists, you now have a reason to start. Panini America today provided the telling first glimpses of 2011 Plates & Patches Football, which boasts a new-and-improved content mix over last season's debut and a release date of December 14. New for 2011 on-card-signed, prime-memorabilia Rookie Cards of the top 36 first-year…