Video: Dallas-Area Collector Claims World's Longest Trading Card at Panini America HQ
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaMEw1cprs&w=600&h=335] When Dallas-area collector Craig Nelson first pulled the redemption card from his box of 2011 National Treasures Football Tuesday at SMP Sports Cards in Grapevine, Texas, he breathed a frustrating sigh and tossed it on the counter toward store manager Chad Brooks. Brooks picked it up, read it and immediately went nuts. This was no ordinary redemption card.…
Panini America Must-See Video: 4 Minutes of 2011 National Treasures Nastiness
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3SzhDf1gE&w=600&h=335] The hits keep coming out of 2011 National Treasures Football, Panini America's high-end pigskin juggernaut that released a few weeks ago and is currently sending thrills and chills throughout the world wide web and in hobby shops and living rooms across the country. Video man extraordinaire Tom "The Ripper" Key scoured the web recently to find a few…
Panini America Unveils the World's Longest Football Card in 2011 National Treasures
Congratulations. You're about to witness trading card history. What follows is the exclusive world premiere of the world's longest trading card, a 36-player record-breaker from Panini America that includes 36 autographs, 36 pieces of oversized prime memorabilia and, when fully unfurled, stands more than 8 feet tall. Five of these behemoths -- including one with inscriptions on every autograph --…
Tracker & Gallery: 2011 Playoff Contenders Football Black Golden Tickets (32 images)
It's hard to believe more than a year has passed since Panini America ignited the "Great Gold Rush of 2010" with the release of the groundbreaking Golden Tickets 14kt gold trading cards that were inserted into 2010 Playoff Contenders Football. That product launched a still-ongoing international mining expedition that carried over into hockey (2010-11 Playoff Contenders) and basketball (2010-11 Gold…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011 Playbook Football — Chapter 2
Last Thursday we opened the book on a most captivating Quality Control Gallery for 2011 Panini Playbook Football with a 31-image reveal that gave collectors the first extended sneak peek at this unique new product from Panini America. But a product like Playbook gets only better with each new image you see. So today we're delivering another chapter's worth of…
The Weekly Panini Price Index (PPI): Justin Bieber 2.0 Auto Card Fetches Huge Bucks
There's been a firestorm debate between the mainstream media and passionate card collectors lately about the current health of the trading card category. Given the magnitude of the brouhaha, we thought it would be fun to start a weekly segment on The Knight's Lance that features the sell of a big-ticket trading card of a newsworthy entertainer or athlete. Hopefully along the way…
Panini Unwrapped Football Double Feature: 2011 Totally Certified & Prime Signatures
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28sKqTZyd0&w=585&h=327] In this special double-feature edition of Panini Unwrapped, Panini America's Tracy Hackler and NFL Brand Manager Carlos Torrez rip through a 10-box mini case of the new 2011 Prime Signatures Football and two boxes of the somewhat-new 2011 Totally Certified Football. For a chance to win some of the best hits from this 12-minute joyride through Panini America's…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011 National Treasures Football
I would've posted this particular gallery much earlier today, but the fact of the matter is this: I've been speechless for the last several hours, literally left with nothing to say -- or type -- after seeing, for the first time, the world's longest trading card that will be inserted via redemption in next week's release of 2011 National Treasures…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011 Prime Signatures Football (54 Images)
Until today, the considerable buzz surrounding next week's release of 2011 National Treasures Football has served to push 2011 Prime Signatures Football, also releasing next week, just under the radar. But that changes in a big way right now. I walked into the marketing office this morning to a waiting wealth of football card treasures, one Quality Control case each of…
More Gems Surface During Hand Collation for 2011 National Treasures Football
This time last Friday, we pulled the curtain back on what I thought was the packout process for the Panini America juggernaut that is 2011 National Treasures Football. Turns out that stunning gallery wasn't the packout process at all. It was the pre-packout process to weed out cards that, for any number of reasons, didn't make the cut. Fast forward…