The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Obsidian Football (80+ Sweet Pics)
For the last few weeks, we've been unveiling tantalizing teases of Panini America's upcoming 2018 Obsidian Football here on The Knight's Lance and on our various social media channels. But with the product finally set to release this week, it's time for us to up our previewing game. Today, on the heels of last week's exploration of 2018 Obsidian Football's…
Cut to the Chase: Unique Memorabilia Cards Add Pop to 2018 Obsidian Football (Gallery)
Up until now, most of our previewing efforts surrounding Panini America's new 2018 Obsidian Football have revolved around the debut product's darker take on Optichrome and at least one of the early autograph inclusions. But with the product set to make its world premiere next Wednesday, we're going to expand our focus just a bit and appreciate some of the…
Sleepers, Steals, Studs: Two Panini America Editors Tackle the Tough Fantasy Issues
By Robert Halliman and Kieran Steckley The fantasy football season has finally arrived and it’s time to rejoice, set up the TVs, feast on all the finger food your stomach desires and get down to business. We know this is an exciting (but perhaps stressful) time for fantasy owners, who so often double as football collectors, too. You stay up…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Absolute Football (Preview Gallery)
When you've got more than a decade of consistent performance under your belt like Panini America's Absolute Football brand does, you don't need much in the way of a grand introduction from year to year. Simply put, Absolute Football is an annual collecting staple with a arsenal of calling-card inclusions such as Tools of the Trade, Canton Absolutes, Rookie Premiere…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Gold Standard Football (Gallery)
Hundreds of years from now, hobby historians may indeed be debating whether or not this is the Golden Age of football collecting. Regardless the verdict, credit Panini America's Gold Standard Football franchise for doing its part to make it so. From its bold beginning back in 2011, Gold Standard Football has always lived up to its name by delivering an…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Boxes of 2018 Contenders Draft Picks Football
One of the great things about having a football draft class as stacked and as potential packed as the upcoming 2018 edition is that the Panini America college football products created to chronicle that class is every bit as stacked and as potential packed. Case in point: The Friday-releasing 2018 Contenders Draft Picks Football. A product brimming with a deep…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 National Treasures Football
Let's be honest: Some new-product release weeks just carry a little more "oomph" than others. This is one of those weeks. Tomorrow in hobby shops and on group break destinations across North America, Panini America's vaunted National Treasures Football arrives for the 2017 season. Boasting the rich autograph and memorabilia content high-end collectors have come to expect, each box of…
Panini America’s “1st Off The Line” Comes to 2017 National Treasures Football (Live Now)
The next installment of Panini America’s popular — and online-exclusive — 1st Off The Line product launched just minutes ago when iCollectPanini.com opened the preorder window for the 1st Off The Line edition of 2017 National Treasures Football. On average, each 1st Off The Line box of 2017 National Treasures Football will deliver eight autograph or memorabilia cards, including one FOTL-exclusive Stars & Stripes acetate RPA numbered to…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 Contenders Optic Football (66 Images)
No matter how long you've been collecting Panini America's fabled Contenders Football franchise, you've never seen a Contenders quite like this. That's because there's never been a Contenders quite like this. From the moment Pittsburgh Steelers rookie receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster teased the existence of 2017 Contenders Optic Football in an early January Instagram Story, the buzz has been building. In…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 Encased Football (87 Must-See Pics)
If you're an avid reader of The Knight's Lance, you already know that the second edition of Panini America's Encased Football is shaping up to be a monster. You recognized as much the second you perused our post from the middle of January detailing the product in progress. Today, we're offering even more proof with a must-see Quality Control Gallery…