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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

2011 Panini Crown Royale Football Box Break Recap and Review

2011 seems to be the year of the die-cut. A resurgence of interest in a departure from the standard 2.5 by 3.5 rectangular card has hit collectors. The best example you will find is in the Crown Royale line of cards. 2011 Panini Crown Royale Football is a visual feast making this a great set for a superior NFL rookie class.

Panini Crown Royale Football falls into our premium cards category. Each box contains 4 packs with 6 cards each with a promise of four autograph or memorabilia cards.

Here are the cards we pulled from the box.

Base Cards

Jason Witten, Front and Back

Mike Williams, Mike Goodson

Chris Johnson, Justin Forsett

Rookie Cards

Mike Pouncey, Kealoha Pilares

Jarvis Jenkins, Greg Salas

Johnny White Blue Parallel #/100

Inserts

Von Miller Crown Jewel Rookies

Keith Jackson and Daniel Thomas Rookie Royalty

Die-cut inserts - Brian Urlacher Knights of the Gridiron, Bo Scafe Majestic

Patrick Willis All Pros

Ansante Samuel Calling All Captains, Braylon Edwards The Zone

Aaron Rodgers Kings of the NFL, Sterling Sharpe Living Legends

The Hits

Rookie Royalty Materials #/299 of Edmond Clyde Gates and Shane Vereen

Julio Jones RPS Rookie Gold Die-Cut Signature Prime Materials #/299

A.J. Green RPS Rookie Blue Die-Cut Signature Prime Materials #/50

Overall Look

These are some of the best-looking cards produced each year and this set is no exception. Sophisticated design with nice foil accents and fabulous die-cuts.

Quality and Variety of Players

This checklist gives you a little of everything with nice rookie prospecting, established veterans and greats of the game.

Do the Hits satisfy?

A wide variety of desirable autos and great die cut jumbo patch rookie on-card autos, you bet they satisfy.

Will you keep coming back for more?

Crown Royale is worthy of multiple box purchases.

Rating

5 out of 5

2011 Panini Crown Royale Football is a visual treat and full of desirable hits.

Monday, November 14, 2011

2011 Panini Absolute Memorabilia Football Box Break Recap and Review

I always seem to do well with Absolute Memorabilia. This year Panini has taken steps to provide an even better experience. This is aided by a rookie class that is proving to be quick starters, already making names for themselves. With jumbo patches floating around in these packs, 2011 Panini Absolute Memorabilia Football is looking good.

Panini Absolute Memorabilia Football falls towards the high end of our premium cards category. Each box contains four pillow packs with 4 cards each. Each 4 pack box contains two autograph and two memorabilia cards.

Here are the cards we pulled from the box.

Base Cards

Troy Polamalu, Front and Back

Ndamukong Suh, Marchawn Lynch

Cedric Benson, Hines Ward

Matt Ryan, Kellen Winslow Jr.

Reggie Wayne

Base Rookies - All rookies are numbered

Adrian Clayborn #/399, Robert Quinn #/399

Jarvis Jenkins Spectrum #/50

Inserts

DeSean Jackson Absolute Heroes #/100

The Hits

Jeremy Kerley Spectrum Auto #/299

Peyton Hillis Spectrum Auto #/10

Titus Young Rookie Premiere Materials Prime #/5 (Looks like a laundry tag)

Kyle Rudolph Rookie Premiere Materials On-Card Auto #/49

Overall Look

I like these base cards. The photograph and styling blend well and continue to the backs of the cards. The insert cards look great in hit form. The RPM Rookie Autographs work very well as horizontal cards.

Quality and Variety of Players

This checklist is tight which is appreciated when there are only 16 cards to a full box. The major rookie hits with relic/auto combos have been reduced to the most desirable rookies.

Do the Hits satisfy?

Absolutely. (Had to do it.) We didn’t have the biggest hits in our box but I was still happy with all four hits.

Will you keep coming back for more?

As I said before, these cards are on the high end of the Premium category, so for those who have the means, getting a case of these will seem reasonable.

Rating

4 out of 5

2011 Panini Absolute Memorabilia Football provides some premium cards for rookie prospectors.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

2011 Panini NFL Stickers For Week 10 And Players To Watch This Week

We are in week 10 of filling in our 2011 Panini NFL Sticker Collection Album and the football season. Matt Cassel surprised us last week with a less than stellar performance, Brandon Jacobs came through and Julio Jones had an incredible game.

Here are the three players to watch this week

Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons connected with last week’s player to watch, Julio Jones. Ryan has the opportunity to repeat that performance against the New Orleans Saints who gain a lot of yards behind the arm of Drew Brees, but also give up a lot of yards in the air to opposing teams.

Dwayne Bowe of the Kansas City Chiefs has the opportunity for a big day with a second week in a row of going up against a soft secondary in the Denver Broncos. He tends to be the primary target for Matt Cassel and should come up with some nice gains... if he can actually hold on to the ball.

Arian Foster of the Houstan Texans has proven himself to be one of the premiere running backs in the game today. Going up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers questionable run defense could provide an opportunity for one of his biggest days this season, even if he shares the workload with Ben Tate.

In addition to the players to watch this week, her are the stickers going into our album.