Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Top NFL Rookies Lead List of Panini America’s New Arrivals
The not-so-distant future of Panini America football cards keeps growing brighter and brighter. With every passing day, the top rookies from the 2011 NFL Draft Class continue filling our mailbox with the most welcomed holiday packages imaginable: Autographed Rookie Cards -- and accompanying parallels and inserts -- for late-season releases such as 2011 Plates & Patches, 2011 Limited and 2011…
Look What Arrived in the Mail Today . . .
I can't recall if ever I've written this before on The Knight's Lance (or simply if I've thought it so much that it seems like I have), but I'm channeling my inner Forrest Gump when I tell you that working at Panini America is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get -- in the mail.…
Super Sunday: Panini America Previews 2011 Playoff Contenders’ Super Bowl Tickets Set
Ask most longtime Playoff Contenders Football collectors and they'll tell you that one of the surprise hits of the 2010 edition was the history-laden Super Bowl Tickets insert that created a secondary-market frenzy and a new must-have set-building target. The good news for many of those same collectors is that Panini America is bringing the popular insert back for a repeat run…
Panini Peek Preview Gallery: 2011 Playoff Contenders Football (10 Must-See Images)
We let the cat out of the bag to a certain extent last week by unveiling the Rookie Ticket Rookie Card designs for the upcoming release of collecting flagship 2011 Playoff Contenders Football. But knowing what the RCs look like is just one part of the equation. Clearly, there's a whole lot more to know -- and love -- about this…
Panini America World Premiere: The 2011 Playoff Contenders Football Rookie Tickets
Following a brief dose of social-media suspense-building yesterday and a visual history lesson earlier today, the time has come for Panini America to unveil the design for its ballyhooed 2011 Playoff Contenders Football Rookie Ticket Rookie Cards. The 2011 edition of this perenniel pigskin product-of-the-year favorite will hit shelves in early January, but we all know it's never too early to pull the curtain…
Before the 2011 Reveal: A Visual History of Playoff Contenders Football Rookie Tickets
It's no secret that the landmark 1998 Playoff Contenders Football product altered forever the way Rookie Cards were made, marketed and collected. The revolutionary union that year of Rookie Cards and autographs birthed the blissful Rookie Ticket -- and signaled a monumental shift in the industry that still resonates loudly today with virtually every product made in every sport. Based largely on the strength of that watershed 1998 edition, Playoff Contenders…