Top Picks Sport NFL Duds for First Time in Panini America’s 2013 Score Hot Rookies
When Panini America releases 2013 Score Football later this month to officially kick off the new NFL collecting season, the landmark brand that ignited the football trading card market back in 1989 will look to replicate the feat for a 2013 rookie crop that is brimming with potential and star power. And nowhere will that push be more evident than in Score's…
Panini America at the NFL Draft: 2013 Score Rookie Cards in Real Time (Day 2 Gallery)
NEW YORK -- During Thursday night's first round of the 2013 NFL Draft, the collector-coveted skill positions took a back seat to the big boys up front, with offensive or defensive linemen being taken with each of the first six picks. Eric Fisher, Luke Joeckel, Dion Jordan, Lane Johnson, Ziggy Ansah, Barkevious Mingo, Jonathan Cooper. The St. Louis Rams finally…
The Panini America Real-Time Reveal: 2013 Score Rookie Cards of Top NFL Draft Picks
NEW YORK -- Thirty-two different times tonight during the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft, league commissioner Roger Goodell will call out a name and make a dream come true for one of the most talented young football players on the planet. And just a few weeks later, Panini America will fulfill some dreams of its own by releasing the first officially licensed NFL Rookie Cards of…
Collectibility Main Factor as Panini America Presents its 2013 NFL Mock Draft
Mel Kiper Jr. has nothing on Jason Howarth, Panini America's Boston-bred Vice President of Marketing. For Howarth, next week's 2013 NFL Draft is something akin to Christmas. Howarth is an unabashed NFL draftnik. He loves the stuff. So when he proposed the idea of conducting the inaugural Panini America mock draft a few weeks ago, we jumped at the opportunity (partially…
Panini America Taking 2013 Score Football Big Time with 25th Anniversary Edition
It's safe to say that Panini America has big, big plans -- jumbo, even -- to celebrate the first release of the 2013 NFL season. 2013 Score Football, the landmark 25th anniversary of the collecting staple, will deliver massive 50-card Hobby Jumbo Packs and three autograph or memorabilia cards per hobby box (with at least two autographs guaranteed) when it releases…
Panini America Provides the First Glimpses of 2013 Prestige Football (Gallery)
Change is coming. For the first time in a long, long time, Prestige Football will not mark the official kickoff to a new NFL trading card season. For 2013, Panini America is giving that honor to the landmark 25th edition of Score Football (which we'll preview in great detail right here on The Knight's Lance in the coming days). But…
Video & Gallery: Taking the Field at the 2013 Panini Pop Warner Skills Clinic
NEW ORLEANS -- On a Super Bowl Saturday morning inside the mammoth NFL Experience, two of the brightest young stars in the NFL (and one who will be at some point early in April's NFL Draft) headlined the 2013 Panini Pop Warner Skills Clinic by administering unforgettable drills, advice and fun to more than 75 local Pop Warner athletes. During…
Video: Panini America Trails Geno Smith on Tour of Super Bowl XLVII’s Radio Row
NEW ORLEANS -- On a whirlwind tour of Super Bowl XLVII's Radio Row inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Friday afternoon, top-rated 2013 NFL Draft prospect Geno Smith steadfastly made the rounds, talking to everyone from ESPN to NBC Sports to CBS Sports to Sirius XM and seemingly every big media outlet in between. Smith's talking points on that…
Panini America Inks Trading Card Deal with Projected No. 1 Overall Pick Geno Smith
NEW ORLEANS -- Panini America, the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced on Friday that it has reached an autograph and trading card agreement with former West Virginia superstar quarterback Geno Smith for the 2013 NFL season. The deal is Smith’s first officially licensed NFL and NFL PLAYERS trading card deal and will include Smith's first licensed autographed trading…
Panini America Hosts Current, Future NFL Stars at Pop Warner NFL Experience Event
NEW ORLEANS – Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc., the nation’s largest and oldest youth football, cheer and dance organization, and Panini America, the Official Trading Card Partner of the NFL, NFL Players and Pop Warner, will host the Panini Pop Warner Skills Clinic on Saturday, February 2 at the Super Bowl XLVII NFL Experience driven by GMC in New Orleans a the…