Luck of the Draw: A $1,500 Panini America Sketch Card & Four Other Crazy Sales
Anyone who watched Indianapolis Colts rookie Andrew Luck play during his decorated college career at Stanford can attest to the undeniable artistry he brings to the quarterback position. The accuracy. The precision. The ability to deliver one masterpiece after another. All of that was on display once again last week during Luck's first promising preseason performance. But if you really want…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Score Football (50 Must-See Images)
The release of Score Football is an annual rite of pigskin passage, a fun-for-all-ages football release that signifies for countless collectors every year the start of a new collecting season with a little something for everyone at a $1 pack price that's impossible to beat. But 2012 Score Football, packing out now in advance of next Wednesday's national release date,…
Panini Peek Preview: 2012 Prestige Football
Panini America officials made sports business headlines earlier today by announcing that the company has inked new long-term agreements with the NFL and NFL PLAYERS. With that big piece of business out of the way, the company can now proceed with previewing just some of the excitement to come, beginning with 2012 Prestige Football. The company's first product of the…
Spoiler Alert: Panini America Knows What's in the Cards for Peyton Manning
UPDATE: Monday morning several news outlets reported that Peyton Manning picked the Denver Broncos. ESPN's Adam Schefter Tweeted out that Manning called John Elway to notify him of the decision and that he has informed the other teams he was going to the Broncos. UPDATE: Friday was a busy day in Manning Mania. Just two days after the NFL world…
Panini America Reveals Grand Show Plans for the Super Bowl XLVI NFL Experience
Beginning Friday inside the Indiana Convention Center, the spectacle known as the 2oth NFL Experience will kickoff nine straight days of participatory games, displays, entertainment attractions, kids' football clinics, free autograph sessions and the largest football memorabilia show ever in conjunction with Super Bowl XLVI. As in past seasons, those last two events -- the free autographs and the memorabilia show…
Panini America Black Friday Checklist: 2011 Pro Bowl Materials and Autographs
As the phenomenon known as Panini America Black Friday comes to an end, we will be updating the checklist here on the blog to show collectors what they got. Stay tuned . . . (more…)
Previewing Panini America’s 1/1 Autographs Sure to Heat Up the 2011 Toronto Expo
This time next week, all of us here at Panini America will be neck-deep in the rip-roaring extravaganza known as the 2011 Toronto Fall Expo -- and we can't wait. We've spent the last few weeks getting you ready for the big show with various previews of our show-stealing Expo plans. But today we bring you something particularly juicy to…
Panini Peek: 2011 Gold Standard Football
The prospects for America's most passionate sports card prospectors just keep getting better. Panini America started the industry's great collecting gold rush late last season with the inclusion of real 14-karat gold Golden Tickets in 2010 Playoff Contenders Football. Those precious-metal pieces of history fueled an absolute feeding frenzy that paved the way for similar innovation in 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey and helped launch the stand-alone…
The Panini America Interview: Skyrocketing 2011 NFL Draft Sensation Andy Dalton
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LInpUuqc-8c&w=585&h=359] In the early January days after quarterback Andy Dalton led Texas Christian University to a win over Wisconsin in the 2011 Rose Bowl (punctuating one of the greatest seasons in Horned Frogs history with a No. 2 ranking in the final BCS standings), ESPN draft expert Todd McShay considered the unassuming star worthy of a third- or fourth-round pick in next week's 2011 NFL Draft.…
Knight’s Lance Exclusive: The Complete 2011 Industry Summit Black Box Checklist
Now that we're just mere hours away from the official launch of the 2011 Industry Summit in Las Vegas, that means were also just mere hours away from the release of Panini America's show-stopping Black Boxes. What follows is a comprehensive checklist of the fabulous autograph and memorabilia cards -- every one a 1/1 -- highlighting this year's edition. (more…)