Return of the Mack: The Wait is Over as Khalil Mack’s 2014 Contenders Football Autos Finally Arrive
Chicago Bears linebacker Khalil Mack is both passionate and persistent in his pursuit of opposing quarterbacks. Those traits have helped Mack become one of the game's best defensive players while recording 53 sacks since beginning his career in 2014. Clearly, the Panini America Acquisitions, Product Development and Customer Service teams have been paying attention. For more than four years, they've been…
Panini America Offers Specific Quantities on 2014 Contenders Football Short Prints
Panini America officials announced earlier this week a complete sell-out of the company's popular 2014 Contenders Football release, meaning everything that's left of the product is now in the marketplace or will be soon -- and once it's gone from there, it's gone for good. One of the most historically significant brands in NFL trading card history (what with its…
Short Report: Panini America Identifies SPs, SSPs within 2014 Contenders Football
When it comes to The Knight's Lance coverage of 2014 Contenders Football's more detailed product information, we've so far brought you the breakdown of RPS Rookie Ticket Variations and the extensive list of retail-exclusive autographs. Today, we're providing the complete breakdown of Short Prints and Super Short Prints in the product. For many hardcore Contenders collectors, much of the information…
Odell Beckham Jr. Driving Giant Early Sales for Scorching 2014 Contenders Football
It likely comes as no surprise that New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham, Jr., the rookie who produced one of the greatest receptions in NFL history earlier this season before a rapt Sunday night NBC audience, is also receiving serious heat in the football card market. But the release last week of Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football, annually one of the…
Panini America Starts Sharing the Signature Mysteries of 2014 Contenders Football
Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops on Thursday to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the last two-plus days in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That's certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set's various variations and short prints. We…
Gold and Silver Tickets Bring Precious-Metal Might to 2014 Contenders Football (Gallery)
Today's highly anticipated hobby arrival of Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football marked the welcome return -- after a long season away -- of the many landmark staples that have made Contenders one of the most-beloved brands in the modern sports-card arena: Rookie Ticket Autographs. Variations. Short-print mysteries. And . . . gold. For the fifth consecutive season, Panini America officials have…
A Visual Guide to 2014 Contenders Football Rookie Ticket Variations (Gallery)
For most diehard football collectors, tomorrow's highly anticipated hobby release of 2014 Contenders Football simply can't get here fast enough. Contenders release day is a hobby holiday of sorts every year, not just because it marks the arrival of one of the category's all-time favorite products -- but also because of the excitement that begins to build immediately surrounding the…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Open Two Boxes of 2014 Contenders Football
We're almost two weeks removed from Santa Claus coming to town and yet, for many collectors, Football Card Christmas arrives tomorrow with the release of Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football in hobby shops across North America. The landmark release -- bolstered by its landmark Rookie Ticket Autographs -- returns as football's home of the autographed Rookie Card for the 17th consecutive…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2014 Contenders Football Hobby (114 Pics)
The week many collectors have waited all year for has arrived. It's Contenders Football release week, something of a national collecting holiday for a lot of folks. Beginning Thursday in hobby shops across North America, hobbyists will celebrate the arrival of Panini America's 2014 Contenders Football with virtually unparalleled box-busting, wrapper-ripping excitement. This year's edition of the venerable hobby heavyweight…
Sunday Showcase: Panini America Peeks the Heavy Hitters in 2014 Contenders Football
Week 16 Sunday of the 2014 NFL season will kickoff later today and across the league, superstar rookies will play pivotal roles in big games -- just as they have all season. Long before the 2014 NFL Draft even took place last May, football experts, fans and collectors held high hopes for the potential of such a stacked rookie class. All…