Steelers C Valerian Ume-Ezeoke Documents Productive Final Week at Panini America

Editor’s Note: As part of the NFLPA Externship program, Pittsburgh Steelers center Valerian Ume-Ezeoke is spending three weeks at Panini America working in the Production, Prepress, Product Development, Acquisitions and Marketing departments. Each week during his externship, Ume-Ezeoke will document his time inside Panini America HQ. This is his final dispatch. My final week here at Panini America is over. Much…

Steelers C Valerian Ume-Ezeoke Documents Productive Second Week at Panini America

Editor’s Note: As part of the NFLPA Externship program, Pittsburgh Steelers center Valerian Ume-Ezeoke is spending three weeks at Panini America working in the Production, Prepress, Product Development, Acquisitions and Marketing departments. Each week during his externship, Ume-Ezeoke will document his time inside Panini America HQ. This is his second dispatch. My first week with Panini America was very educational;…

Pittsburgh Steelers OL Valerian Ume-Ezeoke Breaks 2016 Plates & Patches Football

Pittsburgh Steelers center Valerian Ume-Ezeoke concluded a productive first week at Panini America as part of the NFLPA Externship program by sitting down with Tracy Hackler to break a box of the new 2016 Plates & Patches Football for a must-see episode of Panini Unwrapped. In addition to discussing his first week on the job, Ume-Ezeoke also delivered a bombshell surprise regarding…

Steelers C Valerian Ume-Ezeoke Documents Productive First Week at Panini America

Editor’s Note: As part of the NFLPA Externship program, Pittsburgh Steelers center Valerian Ume-Ezeoke is spending three weeks at Panini America working in the Production, Prepress, Product Development, Acquisitions and Marketing departments. Each Friday during his externship, Ume-Ezeoke will document his time inside Panini America HQ. This is his first dispatch. Playing in the NFL, you never think about the…

Panini America’s 2013 NFL Player of the Day Winner Becomes Card Shop Owner

[caption id="attachment_118250" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Aaron Kellington, left, was last year's winner of the Panini America NFL Player of the Day contest and Pittsburgh Steelers WR Antonio Brown visited him and his family. That memorable event has led to a career in the hobby for Kellington.[/caption] Three years ago, Aaron Kellington was a collector coming back to the hobby he remembered…

Where It All Started: #PaniniWildCard Back to Kick Off 2014 NFL Wild Card Weekend

Exactly two years ago tomorrow, Panini America officials launched the #PaniniWildCard Twitter promotion as a way to celebrate the excitement of the NFL playoffs while rewarding loyal fans with free boxes of trading cards. In the 24 months since, #PaniniWildCard has become an undeniable Twitter sensation, enriching the real-time playoff experiences for fans and collectors of the NFL, NBA and more.…

Steelers WR Antonio Brown Shines During 2013 Panini NFL Player of the Day Event

The 60-degree weather and sun-kissed clear skies that greeted Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon were not the kind of conditions typically associated with Steelers football. Of course, Sunday was far from ordinary for Aaron Kellington, an avid trading card collector from the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakdale, Pa. His 2014 football season began Sunday – right there on his front lawn. That’s…

Pennsylvania Collector Wins Grand Prize in 2013 Panini NFL Player of the Day Promo

Aaron Kellington, a passionate trading card collector from the Pittsburgh suburb of Washington, Pa., turned one lucky pack of officially licensed Panini America NFL trading cards into the opportunity of a lifetime in the 2013 Panini NFL Player of the Day promotion -- the chance to spend the day with Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown. On Sunday, April 27,…

Steelers RB Le’Veon Bell Named Week 16 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week

Voters on NFL.com have made their choice. Running back Le'Veon Bell of the Pittsburgh Steelers is the Week 16 2013 Pepsi NEXT NFL Rookie of the Week for games played December 19-23 the NFL announced Friday. Bell rushed 26 times for 124 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers’ 38-31 victory against the Green Bay Packers. Bell was selected from among five finalists through fan votes on NFL.com. The other finalists…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012 Playbook Football (71 Sweet Pics)

The last few days at Panini America HQ have been nothing short of, well, fantastically frenetic. Between hand-collating 2012 National Treasures Football, shipping 2012-13 Select Basketball, and packing out both 2013 Triple Play Baseball and 2012 Playbook Football, it's safe to say that things are taking place at a blistering pace. So blistering, in fact, that we're bringing you the…
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