Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Open One Early Box of 2013 Prestige Football
Score Football may have gotten the nod this year in kicking off Panini America's loaded 2013 NFL collecting season, taking that prestigious perch away from, well, Prestige, for the first time in more than a decade. The good news for collectors, however, is that 2013 Prestige Football remains a leader in every other way that matters. Equipped more than ever…
Etched to Impress: Panini America Explores Rookie Inserts in 2013 Prestige Football
The magnificence of microetching always has been a print technology that's better experienced than explained. To really appreciate it, you've got to get your hands and eyes on it -- and to do that, you've usually had to wait for Panini America to release Totally Certified, a brand widely recognized in both basketball and football as the matriarch of microetching.…
‘Find It!’ Friday: Win Boxes of 2013 Prestige, Golden Age in Panini America’s New Hunt
Next Wednesday promises to be a huge day for Panini America as both 2013 Prestige Football and 2013 Golden Age Baseball hit hobby shops boasting a magical combination of old-school Americana (Golden Age's Bad News Bears and Bo Derek, for example) and the newest, sweetest, hottest football cards on the planet with Prestige. But we're not waiting until Wednesday. We're…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Prestige Football (162 Sweet Images)
First things first: The Quality Control Gallery you're about to lay eyes on is massive; at 162 images strong, it's easily one of the biggest ones we've ever done here on The Knight's Lance. But when you have a product as brimming with compelling content as 2013 Prestige Football is, well, you've gotta show it off. So that's exactly what…
Building Sandcastle: Legendary Leon’s First Autos Coming to 2013 Prestige Football
Mysterious. Magnificent. Mythical. Majestic. Mustachioed. Marvelous. Must-see. The fact of the matter is that any one of those words -- and so many more -- could be used to describe the athletically spectacular, comically charged creation known as Leon Sandcastle. The fictitiously fabulous No. 1 draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs (played by NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders) first…
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…
Panini America Provides the First Glimpses of 2013 Prestige Football (Gallery)
Change is coming. For the first time in a long, long time, Prestige Football will not mark the official kickoff to a new NFL trading card season. For 2013, Panini America is giving that honor to the landmark 25th edition of Score Football (which we'll preview in great detail right here on The Knight's Lance in the coming days). But…