The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs, SSPs in 2020 Contenders Football (Part 3)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2020 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America three weeks ago to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the last several days in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short prints.…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs, SSPs in 2020 Contenders Football (Part 2)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2020 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America two weeks ago to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the last several days in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short prints.…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs, SSPs in 2020 Contenders Football (Part 1)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2020 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America last week to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the last few days or so in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs and SSPs in 2019 Contenders Football (Part 2)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2019 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America earlier this month to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the better part of January in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs and SSPs in 2019 Contenders Football (Part 1)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2019 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America earlier this month to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the last 19 days or so in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and…
Clearly . . . Scarce: Panini America Provides Details on Unannounced Clear Mosaic Tickets in 2019 Contenders Football
In the days since Panini America released 2019 Contenders Football last Friday, market speculation on the unannounced-but-on-the-checklist 2019 Contenders Football Clear Mosaic Tickets has been that they're pretty tough to come by. Exactly how tough, however, has been something of a mystery. Less than 10? Less than five? Less than two? Well, in a word, "yes." As it turns out,…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Contenders Basketball (100+ Pics)
Perhaps going forward, we should make every January 3 "National Contenders Day" here in the U.S.; a national collecting holiday of sorts celebrated by a wrapper-ripping frenzy featuring not one, but two cornerstone Contenders releases. Such is the case in hobby shops across North America today as both 2019 Contenders Football and 2019-20 Contenders Basketball go live. Two huge releases…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019 Contenders Football (70+ Images)
Panini America's hallowed Contenders Football franchise will hit the field tomorrow with a locked-and-loaded 2019 edition utilizing those fabled calling-card elements that have made the brand one of the most popular in the history of modern sports cards. Boasting those juggernaut Rookie Ticket Autographs and a plethora of desirable parallel versions, 2019 Contenders Football is dressed to impress when it…
Short Report: Panini America Reveals More SPs, SSPs in 2018 Contenders Football
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2018 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America five or so weeks ago to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the weeks since in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short…
Short Report: Panini America Reveals More SPs, SSPs in 2018 Contenders Football
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2018 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America just more than one month ago to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the weeks since in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and…