Emmitt Smith, Panini America Team Up for Unique Initiative in 2016 Flawless Football

It won't be hard to tell that Panini America’s highly anticipated 2016 Flawless Football releases today. Images of seemingly every drool-inducing card uncovered will be posted to the social media universe within seconds of being pulled. But it’s something you won’t see in 2016 Flawless Football that’s likely to strike the biggest chord with Emmitt Smith collectors. In a groundbreaking partnership between Panini America and the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, every…

Panini America to Deliver Exclusive Card Set for Super Bowl XLIX NFL Experience

Tomorrow morning, the Phoenix Convention Center will open its doors to kick off Super Bowl XLIX festivities with the fabled NFL Experience, annually one of the Super Bowl's biggest marquee attractions. If you've never experienced the Experience, well, it's epic -- and perhaps best summarized by this blurb on the event's website: "The NFL Experience Engineered by GMC is the…

Catch 22: Legendary Emmitt Smith Spends a Few Flawless Moments with Panini America

It's not every day that you get to spend some quality time with the NFL's all-time leading rusher. Clearly, last Thursday was no ordinary day. I jumped at the chance to accompany Panini America Football Acquisitions Manager Joe White on a quick trip to Emmitt Smith's business office so that the Dallas Cowboys legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer could…

Doug Martin Pens a Compelling Chapter for Panini America’s 2012 Playbook Football

One of the highlights of my 2013 so far was watching Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie sensation Doug Martin interact so brilliantly with New Orleans-area Pop Warner athletes during the 2013 Panini Pop Warner Skills Clinic at the Super Bowl XLVII NFL Experience. One of the highlights of my 2012 was watching Martin interact so brilliantly with opposing defenses. The doubly dangerous…

Beanie Wells Shines in 2011 Panini America NFL Player of the Day Grand Prize Event

No matter what most NFL fans did last Saturday afternoon, chances are they have nothing on how Byron Guerra, a 17-year-old collector from Phoenix, Ariz., spent the first day of his weekend, rubbing elbows with Arizona Cardinals superstar running back Beanie Wells and thoroughly enjoying the hobby that made it all possible. As the grand-prize winner in Panini America's 2011…

2011 Panini NFL Player of the Day Winner to Spend a Day with Cardinals RB Beanie Wells

Byron Guerra, a 17-year-old high school student and trading card collector from Phoenix, Ariz., turned one lucky pack of officially licensed Panini America NFL trading cards into one fantastic grand prize: The chance for him, his friends and family to spend the day on March 3 with Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells. Guerra is one of the more than…