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Friday, December 30, 2011

2011 Panini Gridiron Gear Football NFL Trading Cards Box Break Recap and Review


2011 Panini Gridiron Gear Football is a solid set of cards that can be a bit of a chase if you are trying to collect all of the base rookies.  With some nice hits, this set serves as a good middle ground between the set building of Prestige and Rookies & Stars and the premium hits of Certified and Absolute Memorabilia.

Gridiron Gear Football falls under our premium cards category.  Each box contains 18 – 8 card packs.  It says on the box you get 2 Autograph OR Memorabilia cards per box but I think it should be 2 Autos AND 2 Memorabilia cards because that seems to be the norm.

Here are some of the cards we pulled from our box.

Base cards
 Drew Brees base, front and back

Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Tim Tebow

 Wes Welker, Frank Gore, LeSean McCoy

 Rookies - Denarius Moore, Prince Amukamara

 Base Card Parallels
 Matt Schaub #/250, Dane Sanzenbacher #/250, Marques Coleston #/250

 Peyton Hillis #/100, Robert Quinn #/100

Rookie Orientation
 A.J. Green non-numbered, Titus Young #/250, Jamie Harper #/100

 Ray Lewis - Rashard Mendenhall Crash Course #/250

 Arian Foster Breast Cancer Awareness #/250

The Hits
 A.J. Green Memorabilia #/299, Beanie Wells Prime Material #/50, Martez Wilson Auto #/299

 Vincent Brown Rookie Gridiron Gems Auto #/299

Overall Look
The design is pretty consistent with previous releases of Gridiron Gear. The inclusion of Breast Cancer Awareness cards is a nice touch. The standouts, from a design level, are the Rookie Gridiron Gems pulls out autographs and the Gridiron Signatures.

Quality and Variety of Players
There is a fine selection of 150 veteran players. At 100 total, the rookie cards checklist is deep.

Do the Hits satisfy?
There are many low numbered big hits here, but this is called Gridiron Gear so expect some of the bigger hits to come in the Memorabilia cards.  Even having said that, the autograph cards cannot be overlooked.

Will you keep coming back for more?
This is the type of product that crosses line, working for different types of collectors. Since only a handful of Rookie Cards can be found in each box, set builders will be in for multiple boxes breaks.

Rating
4 out of 5

2011 Panini Gridiron Gear Football is somewhat of a hybrid release that finds a comfortable place in the middle of the pack, providing opportunities for a wide range of collectors.

2 comments:

  1. Did you get doubles? I got 4 doubles of rookies in one box. But a terrelle pryor rookie auto and a sick 9 color patch of julio, locker, ryan williams to 25

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  2. I got 4 of these from a Ravens game I attended. No idea what they're worth.

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