The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2014 Contenders Football Retail (66 Pics)

When the retail edition of Panini America’s 2014 Contenders Football begins arriving on mass-retail store shelves next week, the brand will be packing a bit of history with it. For the first time ever, the fabled Contenders brand will deliver Rookie Ticket Swatches memorabilia cards, a retail-only inclusion that should fit perfectly alongside 2014 Contenders Football’s calling-card Rookie Ticket Autographs.

In addition to traditional packs, Target stores will be offering a $49.99 blaster box that yields two Rookie Ticket Swatches and one autograph. Walmart stores will carry a $20 blaster box that offers one Rookie Ticket Swatches card in each 40-card box.

Late last week in advance of 2014 Contenders Football Retail shipping to stores, the Panini America Product Development team spent some quality time Quality Controlling the retail portion of the product. The following gallery details just some of the highlights that surfaced during that process.

As you’ll see, 2014 Contenders Football Retail includes a plethora of brand mainstays in addition to the Rookie Ticket Autographs, including popular parallels (Playoff Tickets, Cracked Ice) and insert sets (Rookie of the Year Contenders, Round Numbers, MVP Contenders and more).

The retail configuration also includes its own batch of Rookie Ticket Autographs SPs and several autographs that are retail-only. We’ll have more information on those — as well as complete coverage of the product’s hobby counterpart — in the coming days right here on The Knight’s Lance. For now, though, enjoy this extended Quality Control Gallery on the retail version.