The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Prizm Football (111 Must-See Images)
This time next week, Panini America's second annual installment of the colorful, dazzling and potent Prizm Football brand is sure to be causing a pack-busting frenzy from coast to coast. 2013 Prizm Football picks up where the debut 2012 left off, delivering some of the deftest use of the Optichrome technology that you'll ever see. For 2013, Panini America officials…
Panini Peek: 2013 Totally Certified Football
Football collectors, rejoice. In late November, the micro-etched magnificence of Panini America's Totally Certified returns to the gridiron with a new-look Freshman Fabric Rookie Card design, the addition of Team Panini Signature Materials and Thanksgiving Day inserts and the return of the multiplayer, multi-era Stitches in Time memorabilia cards. Due out November 27, 2013 Totally Certified Football keeps its hit-per-pack configuration intact…
Jets QB Geno Smith Wins 2013 Pepsi NEXT Week 5 NFL Rookie of the Week Honors
Voters on NFL.com have made their choice. Quarterback Geno Smith of the New York Jets is the Week 5 2013 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week for games played October 3-7, the NFL announced today. Smith completed 16-of-20 passes for 199 yards and three touchdowns in the Jets’ 30-28 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Smith also rushed three times for 21 yards. Smith was selected from among…
Voting Begins for Week 5 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week (Virtual Card Gallery)
Want to know who gets just as excited as Panini America and NFL collectors about NFL Rookie performances each week during the season? Pepsi NEXT with its NFL Rookie of the Week initiative. So it comes as no surprise that once again this season — for the third straight year — Panini America and Pepsi would join forces to help promote Pepsi NEXT Rookie of the Week voting and Panini America…
Chapter One: Panini America Provides Early Review of 2013 Playbook Football Booklets
From the day it was first previewed right here on The Knight's Lance in early July, Panini America's 2013 Playbook Football has spent almost three solid months generating the kind of mouth-watering anticipation typically reserved for precious few elite products. Indeed, it was obvious to collectors from that very first glimpse that the third installment of Playbook had the potential…
Panini Peek: 2013 Select Football
The last time football collectors had the opportunity to chase a bona fide, honest-to-goodness, standalone Select product (one that wasn't an upscale version of the Score brand), Marvin Harrison, Keyshawn Johnson and Eddie George were rookies. That was 1996, long before Panini America unveiled the popular Prizm technology and long before Select made a triumphant return to the hobby in…
Bengals RB Giovani Bernard Wins 2013 NFL Pepsi NEXT Week 3 Rookie of the Week
Voters on NFL.com have made their choice. Running back Giovani Bernard of the Cincinnati Bengals is the Week 3 2013 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week for games played September 19-23, the NFL announced today. Bernard rushed for 50 yards and scored a touchdown and also caught four passes for 49 yards in the Bengals’ 34-30 victory over the Green Bay Packers. Bernard was selected from…
Voting Begins for 2013 Week 3 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week (Gallery)
Want to know who gets more excited than Panini America and NFL collectors about NFL Rookie performances each week during the season? Pepsi NEXT with its NFL Rookie of the Week initiative. So it comes as no surprise that once again this season — for the third straight year — Panini America and Pepsi would join forces to help promote Pepsi NEXT Rookie of the Week voting and Panini America NFL Rookie…
A Contenders Confidential: Panini America Unveils 2013 Contenders Football RCs
For many of the most dedicated football card collectors on the planet, this glorious Week 3 Sunday of the 2013 NFL season is a day you've been eagerly anticipating for months. It's a day that, in hindsight, might be remembered as something of Christmas in September. It's the day, after all, that we unveil the new Rookie Card designs for…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013 Certified Football (108 Must-See Pics)
Of the many longstanding NFL brands in the Panini America product portfolio, precious few of them are as storied, as anticipated and as annually widely consumed as Certified. In one form or another, Certified has been a colorfully captivating staple of the NFL card-collecting landscape every year since 1995. The brand's calling-card cards today, now as always, remain those vibrant Mirror…