In case you haven't heard, Black Friday is coming -- and Panini America is ready. For the better part of three solid months, company officials have been feverishly preparing to turn the nation's single biggest shopping day of the year into a bona fide collecting, holiday, too.
In case you haven’t heard, Black Friday is coming — and Panini America is ready. For the better part of three solid months, company officials have been feverishly preparing to turn the nation’s single biggest shopping day of the year into a bona fide collecting, holiday, too.
Beginning next Friday at hundreds of hobby shops across the country, the innovative Panini America Black Friday wrapper-redemption program kicks off, striving to bring the company’s National Sports Collectors Convention-level excitement into your local hobby shop. And judging by the favorable responses to the previews we’ve provided so far, collectors can’t wait.
We’ve been previewing many different aspects of the exclusive Black Friday set in recent days. Last week it was the multisport Black Friday base set. Tuesday we showed you a few of the Black Friday’s Super Bowl XLV insert and yesterday we peeked the Black Friday 2011 NFL Pro Bowl insert.
Today, we fan the flames again with a random-but-impressive selection of the set’s various inserts, including . . .
- Additional images from the Super Bowl XLV and Pro Bowl inserts
- A handful of Black Friday-exclusive 2011 Donruss Elite Football Rookie Cards updated with players in their NFL uniforms
- The unique 2011 NFL Draft Day insert that includes pieces of the very jersey that the depicted player held up just seconds after his name was called on Draft Day
Feast your eyes on these beauties and be sure to check back to The Knight’s Lance tomorrow for a complete list of participating hobby shops and to find out how you can participate online.
Amazing. We, the Collectors, appreciate the hard work that obviously went into this program.
And we appreciate you collectors. You’re the reason we get to do what we do and why we do what we do.
WOW!! NICE CAMS AND PRINCE AMUKAMARA!! This is one amazing promo. There isnt one card on here i wouldnt want to own. the troy p at the top where the prime piece of pylon is one extravagent card. These are all so sweet. hopefully i can find a way to hold one in my hand. thanks again panini for the gallery and KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!! Us collectors are very happy.
COOOOOOOOL!!! That River’s 1/1 is letting a secret out that all the Relic/Auto cards are 1/1s?!!? AWESOME! Hah!
Very nice McElroy!
Can’t wait to see the checklist to see if any more J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!! are included in the Black Friday sweetness!!
Thanks again Tracy!
I hope these packs make their way to the Albany, NY area.
AS ALAWAYS YOU GUYS AT PANINI PUT OUT GREAT PRODUCTS AND CARDS THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE IM A GREAT FAN OF THE CARDS YOULL PUT OUT NOW IF I COULD SOME OF THOSE .
I really wish you guys would bring the silver auto stickers back you can barely see the autos on the draft day patch cards of prince amukamara dareus and kerrigan cards
Hmmm, maybe that’s something to look at for next year!
Wow you guys really went all out on this.
Wish there was a card shop where I live or atleast close by
This is awesome! Any LCS in Vegas participating??
I hope to have the complete list of participating shops tomorrow.
Is there any way to participate online?
There will be, yes. We’ll have more details on the online component in the coming days.
amazing cards…so cool of you fine men and women to give back to us the customers
Came back to drool again!
Great design on these. All of them look great. And who wouldn’t want to own a piece of the Super Bowl?
Mybe doing something like this with basketball could spark something. Basketball collectors are being ignored since the lockout :(.