A Glance Inside Panini America’s Upcoming University of Alabama Trading Card Set
Panini America is reuniting some of the greatest athletes in Alabama Crimson Tide history for the company’s upcoming 2015 University of Alabama trading card set that’s on its way to retailers now. The unique set features a 80-card base set honoring the school’s most decorated athletes, alumni, athletic structures and traditions. The 80-card base set features Silver, Gold (numbered to 25)…
Teaser: Panini America Rips Three Boxes of 2014 Crown Royale Football Hobby
Over the weekend here on The Knight's Lance, we brought you the Teaser Gallery previewing three early boxes of 2014 Crown Royale Football Retail. Today, we're following up with a similar Teaser Gallery previewing the contents of three early boxes of 2014 Crown Royale Football Hobby, which releases in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday. Every four-pack hobby box of…
Before Packout: Panini America Catches Up with 2014 Certified Football (Gallery)
On a trip to the Panini America production facility yesterday to capture the initial wave of packout for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball (which looks spectacular, by the way), I came across a few sleeves of 2014 Certified Football autographs patiently awaiting their own turn in the packout queue. So in the name of doing the right thing, I snapped as many…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Rips Three Early Boxes of New 2013 Spectra Football
You've heard the buzz. You've seen the autographs as they've come in. You've witnessed the Quality Control Gallery. About all that's left of previewing Panini America's new 2013 Spectra Football before tomorrow's highly anticipated release is to discover just what you might find inside a randomly selected box or three -- which is exactly what we just did. As you'll soon…
Short Story: Panini America Sheds Light on 2013 Contenders Football Insert SPs
It’s a phenomenon that takes place every year at about this time. Almost immediately following the release of a new year of Contenders Football, the annual frenzy commences as collectors across North America begin scrambling and scouring to determine the relative scarcity of the set’s ample selection of autograph SPs and variations. It’s a mesmerizing chain of events to be sure, and…
And the Nominees Are . . . Voting Begins for 2013 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Year
Want to know who gets just as excited as Panini America and NFL collectors about NFL Rookie performances each week during the season? Pepsi with its NFL Rookie of the Week initiative. And for the last 17 weeks, Panini America and Pepsi have worked together to promote Pepsi NEXT Rookie of the Week voting and Panini America NFL Rookie trading cards. The payoff for collectors and NFL fans everywhere has…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Contenders Football (126 Sweet Pics)
One week from today, Panini America officials will kick off the new year with the release of 2013 Contenders Football, annually one of the most significant and substantial products on the sports card calendar. The newest iteration of the appropriately named Contenders brand (for it's always in contention for Product of the Year honors) arrives in hobby shops on January 3…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Select Football (105 Must-See Pics)
One week from today, the first Select-branded NFL trading card in 17 years will hit card shops across North America packing more than just that history. It also will include a few more of the hobby's favorite things, foremost among them stunning Prizm technology, an impressive checklist of first-time Rookie Card autographs and the fabled Hot Rookies and Hot Stars insert…
Fit for a King: 2013 Crown Royale Football Rules in Panini America Pre-Ink Preview
December promises to be a pivotal month for Panini America's 2013 NFL season, what with 2013 Select Football and 2013 Contenders Football set to arrive on December 18 and December 26, respectively. But even as company officials steadfastly prepare for the products that are hitting this month, they're also focused on preparing for the products that follow in January and…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Early Boxes of 2013 Totally Certified Football
Just in time to kickoff the holiday shopping season, Panini America's 2013 Totally Certified Football arrives in hobby shops on Wednesday equipped with the tantalizing doses of microetching, memorabilia, autographs and Totally colored parallels that have made the product a perennial favorite in recent years. Over the course of the last week, we brought you a Quality Control Gallery on the…