The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 Unparalleled Football (100+ Images)
Panini America's Unparalleled Football franchise is a unique entry on the NFL collecting landscape. There's really nothing else quite like it in the sense that it's awash with color and unifies a captivating multitude of varying surfaces boasting such names as Escher Squares, Rainbow Spokes, Swirlorama and Wedges. The Unparalleled name caught many collectors off guard during last year's debut. Really,…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Boxes of 2017 Immaculate Collegiate Football
Tomorrow afternoon, the 2017 National Sports Collectors Convention will officially open its doors for the first of five straight days that celebrate the undeniable passion that lives within all fans and collectors. As luck would have it, tomorrow also marks another loaded new-release Wednesday for Panini America as 2017 Immaculate Collegiate Football, 2017 Certified Football and 2017 Select NASCAR Racing all…
Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2016 Phoenix Football (Preview Gallery)
In late October, a 2016 NFL collecting season earmarked by a string of product debuts (including the likes of Unparalleled, Origins, Impeccable and more to come) will add another promising new release to the calendar in Panini America's 2016 Phoenix Football. As its sales solicitation material suggests, 2016 Phoenix Football "is sure to catch fire" and features "some of 2016's…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2016 Absolute Football (Preview)
It's safe to say that 2015 was something of an unorthodox year for longtime Panini America NFL brands Donruss Elite and Absolute. Both popular products were temporarily sidelined last season in a move that had many collectors wondering if they would ever return again. But this week's release of the new-and-improved 2016 Donruss Elite Football served resounding notice that sometimes a…
The Anatomy of a Card Design: Appreciating 2014 Elite Football’s Elite Series Insert
There are no autographs in 2014 Donruss Elite Football's Elite Series insert. No patchtastic pieces of memorabilia, either. In fact, you won't find much in the way of super-premium add-ons in Elite Series. What you will find -- overwhelmingly so -- is . . . an impeccable design . . . captivating photography . . . and a reverent use…
Panini America’s Must-See Sunday Gallery: The Many Shades of 2013 Prizm Football
While the football collecting world (including all of us inside Panini America HQ) anxiously awaits the arrival of 2013 Playbook Football (which began packing out Friday, by the way), we needed something on this glorious Week 5 Sunday of the 2013 NFL season to get our gridiron goosebumps growing. What we've come up with is a must-see gallery of the…
Panini Peek: 2013 Absolute Football
If Panini America's 2013 Absolute Football were a house on Halloween, it'd be the one every kid in the neighborhood would consider a must-visit destination: Full of treats, absolutely devoid of tricks and packed with more thrills than even the most engaging haunted house. Given that the revamped rendition of the longtime industry staple is slated to hit hobby shops…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks First Box of 2013 Rookies & Stars Football
One of the longest-running football brands in collecting history is kicking off its 16th NFL season this week -- and when Panini America's 2013 Rookies & Stars Football releases on Wednesday, it will do so packing many of the comfortable niceties that have made the product such a football staple for so many years. But the one that's likely to…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Rookies & Stars Football (110 Pics)
Great photography? Check. Bold, vibrant designs? Check. Key free agents updated in their new NFL uniforms? Check. Reimagined renditions of venerable key inserts and parallels? Check. Abundant helpings of rocketing rookies and generational stars? Check. Highly collectible memorabilia and autograph cards? Check. Indeed, next week's release of Panini America's 2013 Rookies & Stars Football is equipped with everything longtime brand loyalists…
A Difference You Can See Through: Peeking 2013 Elite Football’s Laser-Cut “Portraits”
Are you ready to see the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Adrian Peterson in a whole new light? Or through a whole new light? If so, then Panini America's 2013 Elite Football, due out everywhere next Wednesday, has a nifty new insert set for you. After a few solid months of research and development, the intricately…