Going Direct ep #58 | Interview with Guest Lucas Kinser Panini Brand Manager | 2022 Immaculate UFC Box Break
DETAILS: The resident UFC guru, Panini Brand Manager Lucas Kinser, dropped by to join us for an episode of Going Direct. We get to hear how Lucas landed at Panini, how he knows so much about UFC, and then cap the episode off by busting a box of the brand spanking new - 2022 Immaculate UFC! Don’t miss this episode!…
With Just One Entry, 12-Year-Old Virginia Collector Caleb Byrne Wins 2020 Panini Super Bowl Kid Reporter Grand Prize
When Caleb Byrne first uncovered his Panini Super Bowl Kid Reporter contest-entry card in a box of Panini America NFL trading cards be bought over the summer at Target, the 12-year-old Virginian had zero interest in actually entering the code on it. But at the urging of Jack, his persistent, persuasive younger brother, Caleb finally relented and entered the code…
Watch: Panini America Super Bowl LIV Kid Reporter Jack Briody Grills the Chiefs and 49ers
MIAMI — Little Jack Briody, a third-grader from Rockville Centre, N.Y., experienced fantasy football come to life Monday during Super Bowl LIV Opening Night festivities inside Marlins Park. As the newest Panini America Super Bowl Kid Reporter, the card-collecting, sports-loving 8-year-old made the rounds on Monday alongside Super Bowl-winning wingman Trent Dilfer, interviewing the biggest superstars from the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. The interactions, as…
New York Third-Grader Earns Dream Trip to Miami as Grand Prize Winner in Panini America’s Super Bowl LIV Kid Reporter Contest
When the phone rang in the Briody household Monday morning, 8-year-old Jack couldn’t possibly have known the call was for him. Or that the person on the other end of the line was a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Or that the ring-wearing passer had some monumental news to share. So, you can imagine Jack’s surprise when mom Jeanne handed him the…
Watch: 12-Year-Old Corbin Boehm Shines as Panini America Super Bowl Kid Reporter
ATLANTA -- Corbin Boehm experienced fantasy football come to life Monday during Super Bowl LIII Opening Night festivities inside State Farm Arena. As the newest Panini America Super Bowl Kid Reporter, the 12-year-old Boehm made the rounds on Monday alongside Super Bowl-winning wingman Trent Dilfer, interviewing the biggest superstars from the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. The interactions, as you'll…
Virginia Sixth-Grader “Excited and Blessed” to Be Panini Super Bowl Kid Reporter
It's probably for the best that 12-year-old collector Corbin Boehm was out of school on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The Terra Centre Elementary School sixth-grader from Burke, Va., likely wouldn't have been much good in the classroom yesterday afternoon anyway. Not after receiving a special phone call from Super Bowl-winning quarterback Trent Dilfer. For Boehm, the…
Watch: 10-Year-Old Natalie Blank Shines as Panini Super Bowl LII Kid Reporter
ST. PAUL., Minn. -- On a packed Xcel Energy Center floor during Monday's Super Bowl Opening Night extravaganza, it was the littlest reporter in the arena who provided some of the evening's biggest moments. Decked out in her pink "Panini America" T-shirt and quarterbacked by Super Bowl XXXV champion Trent Dilfer, 10-year-old Tennessean Natalie Blank, this year's Panini America Super…
Girl Power: Tennessee 10-Year-Old Going to Big Game as Super Bowl LII Kid Reporter
Make no mistake about it: 10-year-old Natalie Blank from Franklin, Tenn., is a bona fide history-maker. The fifth-grader at Clovercroft Elementary School is a soccer-playing art lover who also dabbles in Panini America football cards with younger brothers Davis and Brady. But it was Natalie who turned her packs of 2017 Donruss Football from Target into the experience of a…
Watch: 7-Year-Old Joseph Perez Steals Show as Panini America Super Bowl Kid Reporter
HOUSTON -- With one poignant question Monday night, Panini America Super Bowl Kid Reporter Joseph Perez became a viral phenomenon; a show-stealing, 7-year-old internet sensation who brought down the house while bringing New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to tears. Perez was perched safely upon Super Bowl champion Trent Dilfer's shoulders when he asked Brady, simply enough, "Who's your hero?"…
California 7-Year-Old Earns a Dream Trip as Panini Super Bowl LI Kid Reporter
In the days shortly after the early January deadline had passed to enter Panini America's annual Panini Super Bowl Kid Reporter Contest, 7-year-old Joseph Perez incessantly asked his parents, David and Jessica, if they had heard anything about winners. They hadn't. And so as each day passed, Joseph become more crestfallen, resigned to the fact that one of the many entries…