Panini America’s Prime Signatures Football Receiving an Upgrade for 2012 Season
Panini America's bold reintroduction of the Prime Signatures Football brand will enter its second season when the 2012 edition releases in early October, this time packing some exciting new bells and whistles that should help the product continue to climb higher into the collective collecting heart of football fans. 2012 Prime Signatures Football will again deliver one autograph in every four card…
Panini America Begins Registration for the 2012 NFL Player of the Day Promotion
Registration for the most successful hobby shop promotion in the industry kicked off this week as more than 500 hobby shops across North America received invitations to participate in the 2012 Panini America NFL Player of the Day promotion. For the 13th consecutive year, every time a collector opens up a pack of Panini America NFL trading cards in a participating…
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 America Unveils 2012 National VIP Plans, Keeps Two Cards a Mystery
Panini America officials on Monday afternoon unveiled the details surrounding a special six-card set that will be distributed to registered VIPs later this month in Baltimore at the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention. The set, styled after the legendary Diamond Kings art cards, will include Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Kyrie Irving. And in an exciting twist, two additional…
Ink Colors Inject Chase to Panini America’s 2012 Elite Football Inscriptions Insert
Outside of Panini America's ballyhooed Rated Rookie T-shirts that debuted during the 2012 NFLPA Rookie Premiere in late May, the biggest revelation from that weekend likely was the bombshell announcement that beloved acetate card stock would be making a triumphant return in the 2012 Elite Football Inscriptions insert. The sports collecting Twitterverse seemed to erupt with approval following each Inscriptions sneak…
2012 Prestige Football: Nine Nasty Sales and One Insane Asking Price (Must-See Gallery)
In the few days since Panini America's 2012 Prestige Football went live, one thing is certain. The product is more than living up to pre-release hype. The first 2012 NFL product on the market to include members of the new rookie class in their NFL uniforms has generated several eye-popping sales since releasing late last week. Among the most intriguing…
Panini Peek Preview: 2012 Gridiron Football
For starters, know this: That headline up top is not a typo. We didn't inadvertently and inexplicably forget to use the word "Gear" next to the word "Gridiron" there. Clearly, Panini America's 2012 Gridiron Football is not the same Gridiron Gear you're used to. In an NFL collecting season that so far has included -- and will continue to include…
Panini Peek Preview: 2012 Certified Football
Yes, I understand that the buzz surrounding the just-arriving 2012 Prestige Football has reached a fever pitch and that excitement for the Prestige brand is literally at an all-time high. And, yes, I'm aware that 2012 Certified Football doesn't arrive for another 11 weeks or so. But something else I know is this: There's likely not a more popular recurring…
52-Card Pickup: A Massive Gallery Detailing Andy Dalton’s 2012 Prestige Football Break
Earlier today, we posted a special world premiere episode of Panini Unwrapped co-starring Cincinnati Bengals Pro Bowl quarterback Andy Dalton and 2012 Prestige Football. To be sure, that video has proven to be quite popular in the few hours since it went live. But since we took advantage of our time with Dalton yesterday to focus more on him and less on…
NFL Superstar Andy Dalton, Panini America Unwrap the New 2012 Prestige Football
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-pU8jBk4NU&w=600&h=338] Yesterday seemed for most of the morning like just another Monday inside Panini America HQ. Of course, then Cincinnati Bengals Pro Bowl quarterback Andy Dalton walks in the front door -- about 15 minutes early, mind you -- for a previously scheduled autograph session. Dalton hand-delivered his usual does of overall excellence, during the signing session, during an…