Rare Printing Plates Give Panini America’s 2012 Score Football Serious Staying Power

Traditionally speaking, most collectors look at mainstream, low-price-point trading card products as being low on bells, whistles and secondary-market value, too. But 2012 Score Football has proven to be far from traditional in the three months since its release. After all, it's not every day -- if ever -- that a 99-cent pack has the potential to deliver so much bang…

Panini Unwrapped: 2012 Score Football

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkM0OpKjLo&w=600&h=338] In this special watch-and-win edition of Panini Unwrapped, Panini America's Tracy Hackler, Joseph Mackey and Carlos Torrez play triple coverage on 2012 Score Football, quite possibly the biggest bang-for-your-buck product in the card-collecting universe. Did the Panini America trio pull a printing plate? An autograph? A Rookie Card variation? You'll have to watch and find out. And if…

A Blast from the Past: 2012 Score Football’s Rookie Card Flashback Insert (Gallery)

Score Football exploded into the collecting conscious back in 1989 with a monumental maiden voyage still considered by experts to be one of the most influential trading card sets of all time. More than 20 years later, Score remains one of the most widely-broken, warmly-embraced football sets every year with a proud history of landmark designs, key Rookie Cards and fond memories…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Score Football (50 Must-See Images)

The release of Score Football is an annual rite of pigskin passage, a fun-for-all-ages football release that signifies for countless collectors every year the start of a new collecting season with a little something for everyone at a $1 pack price that's impossible to beat. But 2012 Score Football, packing out now in advance of next Wednesday's national release date,…

Panini Peek Preview: 2012 Score Football

More than two decades after its legendary beginning in 1989, Score Football remains, simply, the most football card fun you can have for a buck. And when 2012 Score Football returns for its 23rd installment in July, the set's fundamental mantras -- fun, value, collectibility and universal appeal -- will once again be on full, vibrant display. Boasting one of…