Your Chance to Win a Panini America Black Box 1/1: Find the Colin Kaepernick Card
On two separate occasions this week, The Knight's Lance brought you coverage of the absolute feeding frenzy surrounding the best Panini America cards of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Today, we're delivering an opportunity for one lucky collector to get in on the craze. Below, we've provided links to the two stories mentioned above. In both of those stories there…
The $1.9 Million Impact of Panini America's 2012 Black Friday Promotion (with Video)
Now that the dust has started to settle from the coast-to-coast madness created by Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion, it's time to exhale, take a step back and attempt to assess the true impact of a program that, in two short years, has made local hobby shops across the country bona fide Black Friday shopping destinations for the first…
Limited Quantity of 2012 Black Friday Packs Still Remaining at iCollectPanini.com
Before we officially -- and sorrowfully -- bid farewell to the hobby-shop sensation that was Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion and make way for tomorrow's Cyber Monday, it's worth noting that you can actually get started early at iCollectPanini.com with a little Cyber Sunday Afternoon. Just as it did in 2011, the official online store of Panini America offered a limited…
The Panini America Knight's Lance Gallery: Assorted Scenes from 2012 Black Friday
Thanks to the real-time revelry of social media, many of us across the country have been able to vicariously participate in Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion thanks to the many images and experiences shared by others on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Today, we're going to bring you just a small portion of the fun we've experienced over…
Contest Winners Picked; Black Friday Packs Still Available at iCollectPanini.com
Whew! Glad that's over. I just spent most of the morning sifting through more than 620 comments from four recent Panini America contests conducted right here on The Knight's Lance. I'm not complaining, though. The exercise simply kept reminding me just how great our customers, collectors, fans and friends are. Your overwhelming response and interaction continue to blow us away…
Panini Unwrapped: 2012 Black Friday Craze Starts Now with Chance to Win Free Packs
Since it's 11 p.m. here in Dallas right now, that means it's officially Black Friday on the East Coast. And that means the madness has begun. So to help celebrate what promises to be a banner day in hobby shops across the country with the official kickoff of Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion, we're going to start this thing…
Panini America Thanksgiving Day Giveaway
Today is a day for giving thanks . . . and a day for watching football. With Black Friday just hours away, we need SOMETHING to hold us over. While turkey and stuffing seem to be the obvious choice, one can't help but get wrapped up in one of the greatest football days of the year. Shortly after Santa makes his…
Ho, Ho, Hot: Andrew Luck, RG III Go Santa for Special Panini America Holiday Cards
It must have seemed like an odd request at the time for NFL rookies Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Trent Richardson. It was May. It was California. It was hot. And yet, Panini America officials were kindly asking that superstar trio to don Santa hats festooned with their respective NFL team logos for a quick photo op during the…
Panini America Previews iCollectPanini.com Black Friday Component, Peeks More Pics
There's still so much left to cover regarding Panini America's grand plans for this week's 2012 Black Friday promotion and not nearly enough time to cover it. So we're going to engage in some meaningful multitasking for this particular post. First, we're going to cover iCollectPanini.com's role in Black Friday. After that, we're going to preview more sweet autograph and…
Panini America Reveals Preliminary List of 2012 Black Friday Participating Dealers
We're now just hours away from kicking off Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion in hobby shops across the country. Following months of product development and weeks of finger-licking previews, the time is fast approaching to celebrate one of the industry's most popular in-store promotions. Of course, the Black Friday extravaganza wouldn't be nearly as successful without the support and…