Pro Football Hall of Fame, Panini America Extend Partnership Agreement for Five Years

Sports card manufacturer remains exclusive distributor of Hall of Fame-branded products, sponsor of signing events CANTON, OHIO – The Pro Football Hall of Fame and sports card manufacturer Panini America have agreed to extend their partnership for five years. The deal makes Panini the exclusive distributor of trading cards featuring players, coaches and contributors elected as members of the Hall’s…

Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2017 Pantheon Football (Preview Gallery)

From its "Mount Rushmore" memorabilia cards to its lofty, legend-based checklist, Panini America's 2016 Pantheon Baseball arrived on the scene to rave reviews last fall, parlaying a unique array of aesthetics and themes that appealed to fans and collectors of baseball's all-time greats. Such an auspicious debut made crossing Pantheon over to the NFL a no-brainer. In late July, 2017…

Simply . . . Golden: Panini America Prepping Gold Standard Football’s Big Comeback

Has it really been that long? It seems unfathomable, frankly, that Panini America's gilded Gold Standard Football franchise last appeared as a standalone product in 2011, when the likes of Cam Newton, Von Miller, A.J. Green and Julio Jones were but wet-behind-the-ears rookies and the Gold Standard brand was making a splash in the NBA market. But after that one-season…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Early Boxes of the New 2016 Absolute Football

After a long year away from the marketplace, Panini America's fabled Absolute Football franchise makes a triumphant return to anxious collectors on Wednesday with a revamped configuration and plenty of the Absolute brand staples that have bolstered the product for more than a decade. We showed you an extended glimpse at the product last week with a revealing Quality Control…

A Blast from the Past: 2012 Score Football’s Rookie Card Flashback Insert (Gallery)

Score Football exploded into the collecting conscious back in 1989 with a monumental maiden voyage still considered by experts to be one of the most influential trading card sets of all time. More than 20 years later, Score remains one of the most widely-broken, warmly-embraced football sets every year with a proud history of landmark designs, key Rookie Cards and fond memories…

Golden Touches: Collectors in Florida and New York Strike Gold on Bradford, Elway

Five packs of 2010 Playoff Contenders Football. That's all 29-year-old Florida collector Michael Tucker needed. So he dropped by Wonder Water Sports Cards in Clearwater, Fla., Thursday evening after work to pick them up -- really for no other reason than to test the video-recording capabilities of his new camera phone in advance of a group break next week. The camera, as it turns out, works…

Panini America Prepares to Kick Off the 2011 NFL Experience in its Own Backyard

The first weekend of the Super Bowl XLV NFL Experience kicks off on Thursday at the Dallas Convention Center, just miles from Panini America's corporate headquarters. Fittingly, the company's plans for the show are as big as the host state. With an aim to please diehard Lone Star locals as well as those fans descending upon the neighborhood to support Super…