Draw Plays: Panini America Appreciates the Artwork of the NFL’s Top Rookie Stars
The Panini America Original Player Sketch Card. It's a personality-projecting art project that tests future NFL superstars unlike anything at the scouting combine ever could. It's an annual write, er, rite of passage for players attending the NFLPA Rookie Premiere every year, a fun-loving and quite literal draw play executed by quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and linebackers alike. Every…
Top NFL Rookies Speak Out During Special Panini America Rookie Roundtable
Now that NFL training camps have officially kicked off around the league, it's finally time for us to take a look back at a special event Panini America hosted in conjunction with GTS Distribution and the NFLPA during the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere. On a fittingly sunny Thursday afternoon in May, Panini America brought top 2013 NFL rookies DeAndre Hopkins, Giovani Bernard,…
Panini America Offers 40-Card First Look at 2013 Elite Football’s Top Rookie Cards
Next Wednesday, a revamped 2013 Elite Football will greet football collectors across the country packing an abundance of whiz-bang technological twists and a new-look Rookie Card design unlike any the venerable brand has offered in quite some time. Todaywe're going to preview that design by showcasing the RCs of the 40 players who attended the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere in May. The…
Prestigious Premiere: Panini America Peeks Top 2013 Prestige Football Rookie Cards
It's quite remarkable, when you think about it, that a dedicated team of Panini America officials needed less than one week to sift through the thousands of photographs taken by multiple photographers during the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere, select just the right ones, get them clipped, cropped and color-corrected and then placed into the upcoming 2013 Prestige Football release. That result…
Tell-All: NFL Rookies Bare their Souls to the Panini America Editorial Department
The 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere was an overwhelming success for Panini America, highlighted, of course, by last Saturday's photo shoot at the historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Among the myriad highlight-reel moments was an impromptu freestyle rap session courtesy of Seahawks running back Christine Michael (who, incidentally, has the firmest handshake since Michael Irvin) and a laser-like 50-yard pass from…
Super Saturday: Panini America, NFL Youth Win Big at 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere
PASADENA, Calif. -- Perhaps Panini America Vice President of Marketing Jason Howarth said it best during a sun-drenched interview with NFL.com's Crystina Poncher on the pristine Rose Bowl field Saturday afternoon: "The NFLPA Rookie Premiere is our Super Bowl," Howarth said. In so many ways, Howarth nailed it. Indeed, when it comes to the 2013 NFL trading card season, there…
Follow Panini America on Twitter All Day at the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere
PASADENA, Calif. -- Panini America is on location inside the historic Rose Bowl providing budget-busting coverage of the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Follow us on Twitter and the #ScoreRookie hash tag so you don't miss any of the action.
Gallery: Panini America’s Fun-Filled Friday at the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere
LOS ANGELES -- At one table, Denard Robinson played "MC Shoelace" and Quinton Patton spun the wheels of steel in a signing room they came to call "Club Panini." At another, Matt Barkley discussed wedding plans across the room from Knile Davis and Tavon Austin, who quietly signed autographs while rapt in their new Panini America Skullcandy Crushers. Minutes later, Manti Te'o free-handed a…
Panini America’s Full-Throttle Thursday at the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere (Gallery)
LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday during the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere, Panini America officials once again delivered an action-packed experience from beginning to end, highlighted by some fresh rookie faces in the the Panini America player lounge for autograph signings and executing two major player appearances simultaneously. While a diligent few stayed back at the host hotel to engage a…
Gallery: Panini America’s Wild Wednesday at the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere
LOS ANGELES -- Full of the pomp, circumstance and fun that has come to earmark one of the sports card industry's most important events, the entertaining spectacle that is the 2013 NFLPA Rookie Premiere kicked off with a bang Wednesday afternoon inside the Panini America Player Lounge. In all, 18 of the 40 top NFL rookies assembled at this year's…