The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2016 Spectra Football (100+ Sweet Pics)
If the looks of a football trading card release could kill, there's no denying that Panini America's Spectra brand would routinely commit something we've come to refer to around these parts as "Spectracide." The extra-thick, Optichrome-enhanced beauty has always been blessed with drop-dead-gorgeous aesthetics. That, in concert with a wealthy share of autographs and prime memorabilia, has helped Spectra Football…
Panini America Announces Packout Updates to 2016 Spectra Football (Preview Gallery)
As the sun rose over North America this morning, most of the sports conversation across the country revolved around last night's riveting start to the 2016 NFL season that saw the Denver Broncos squeak by the Carolina Panthers, 21-20, in an electric rematch of Super Bowl 50. Of course, the Thursday night opener simply fanned the flames of anticipation for…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2016 Absolute Football (100+ Images)
When a brand is as adored and as tenured as Panini America's Absolute Football is, one year away from the game can seem like an eternity. And so it was last season, when football fans had no Absolute to collect for the first time since 1994. But if absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder, the highly anticipated 2016 Absolute…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2016 Prizm Football (Preview Gallery)
The rainbow is rich. It is resplendent. It is refractive. And it is returning. Panini America's popular Prizm Football franchise is preparing for the 2016 NFL season just as it's prepared during each of its previous four seasons: By breaking out a technicolor treasure trove of new Prizm parallel possibilities in a hobby-jumbo format high on eye-appeal. Set to arrive…
Panini America, Top Rookies Join Forces for New TV Spot to Kickoff 2016 NFL Season
By any assessment, Panini America officials made the most of the time they spent with top NFL rookies during May's 2016 NFLPA Rookie Premiere by capturing critical content -- photography, autographs, memorabilia and more -- that will help drive sales of the company's officially licensed NFL and NFLPA trading cards throughout the upcoming 2016 season and beyond. Also part of…
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…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2016 Gala Football (75 Must-See Images)
For football collectors who took a liking to the box-office motif and striking good lucks of Panini America's Gala Basketball releases from the last two seasons and then waited patiently to see if the company would ever bring the high-end brand to the NFL, well, your wait is almost over. 2016 Gala Football, set to arrive in hobby shops across…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2016 Immaculate Collegiate Football
Continuing a trend that officially begins with today's release of 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football, Panini America is transforming its Immaculate Collegiate brand (launched in 2015 as a multisport product) into a football-only product filled with the blockbuster memorabilia hits and star-studded autograph checklist that have made Immaculate one of the most impressive brands of the last five years regardless…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Early Boxes of 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football
Panini America's unique Black Gold brand will make its first foray into the college football arena later this week when 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football arrives in hobby shops and on group break sites across North America. Based on resounding feedback from distributors, hobby shops and collectors, a product originally solicited as a multisport release has been transformed into a…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Three Boxes of the New 2016 Certified Football
In sports collecting circles across North America, the days these days seem to pass a little . . . more . . . slowly. The excitement and anticipation of next week's 2016 National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City seems to be conspiring to make the days between now and then crawl by. But Panini America has another release-filled week…