Pop Warner Football Headlines Our 2012 Panini NFL Sticker Album For Week 13 Of The NFL Season

This is week 13 of the NFL season and it is also the 13th week of working towards the completion of our 2012 Panini NFL Sticker Collection.  This week we have our first completed page.

Normally we pick players to watch for the week, but this week we are featuring an important program, Pop Warner Football.

Pop Warner Football is a non-profit organization that provides youth football for participants in 43 U.S. states and several countries around the world. Pop Warner is the largest and oldest national youth football organization in the United States. It is also the only youth sports organization with an academic requirement. Pop Warner's commitment to academics is what separates the program from other youth sports around the world.

Answers To Our Sports Card Saturday And Sunday Final Blowout Quiz In Our 2012 Panini NFL Player Of The Day Promotion

Talk about finishing strong.  We got a great response to out final blowout quiz.  Most of you got anywhere between 4 to 7 questions correct but only one of you got a perfect score.  To see how you did, here are the correct answers.  (Here is a link to the original questions.)

The Complete List Of Eligible Players On The 2013 BBWAA Baseball Hall Of Fame Ballot

Today the Baseball Writers’ Association of America released the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot.  There are 37 former players on the ballot that can be chosen by the 600-plus eligible voters. The ballot consists of 13 returning candidates, but notable are the 24 newcomers. 

This is a big year for first timers as players like Sandy Alomar Jr., Craig Biggio, Jeff Conine, Julio Franco, Shawn Green, Ryan Klesko, Kenny Lofton, Mike Piazza, Reggie Sanders, Curt Schilling, Mike Stanton and David Wells have made the ballot.  But the bigger issue will be addressing whether the careers and achievements of players who were accused or suspected of using performance enhancers are worthy of making the Hall as players like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa have entered their first year of eligibility. 

So far the biggest name that the writers have had to deal with that has ties to performance enhancers has been Mark McGwire, now in his 7th year on the ballot.  Last year he received 19.5% of the vote. Candidates who receive less than five percent of the vote in any Hall of Fame election are dropped from future consideration.

Others returning to the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot include (with their 2012 vote percentage in parentheses): Jack Norris (66.7%), Jeff Bagwell (56.0%), Lee Smith (50.6%), Tim Raines (48.7%), Alan Trammell (36.8%), Edgar Martinez (36.5%), Fred McGriff (23.9%), Larry Walker (22.9%), Don Mattingly (17.8%), Dale Murphy (14.5%), Rafael Palmeiro (12.6%) and Bernie Williams (9.6%).

Voting ends and all ballots must be returned by December 31st. The results of the election will be announced Jan. 9 live on MLB Network and at the Baseball Hall of Fame's website, and any candidate named on at least 75 percent of ballots submitted will be enshrined at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown on July 28.

Here is the complete list of candidates on the 2013 BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot.

All About Cards Introduces Sports Card Saturday And Sunday In A Final Blowout Of Our 2012 Panini NFL Player Of The Day Promotion

I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving and survived Black Friday.  While waiting for Cyber Monday what is a sports card collector to do with their time?  If you can’t get your fill of doorbusters and blowout deals, here is one to hold you over until Monday.  This will be the last opportunity for you to collect entries to win the great prizes in our 2012 Panini NFL Player Of The Day Main Prize Pool. 

There are ten questions listed below and for each one you answer correctly you will receive an entry.  If you answer all 10 correctly, you will receive an additional 5 entires.  So a total of 15 entries are up for grabs per person.  For those of you who have been following our Panini NFL Player Of The Day promotion the whole time, many of these answers will be easy, but even if this is your first time here, you should be able to answer all of these questions by looking at our previous posts.

All of your answers must be emailed to AACNFLPOD (at) Yahoo (dot) com by Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST.  Do not leave you answers here or on our Facebook page, all answer MUST be emailed to qualify.  Make sure you are following us here on the blog, or on our Twitter account or like us on our Facebook page.

Here are the 10 questions.

2012 Bowman Chrome Baseball Card Box Break Recap And Review

Bowman Chrome Baseball is as consistent and familiar as the set it based on, Bowman Baseball.  Very little changes from year to year.  For this year’s Bowman Baseball, Bryce Harper was the face of the box along with newcomer Garrit Cole.  For that release it was Yu Darvish who stole the show with his cards garnering the top prices paid on the secondary market.  So it is not surprising that Darvish has replace Cole as the featured player alongside Harper for 2012 Bowman Chrome Baseball.   If Bowman Chrome has been a part of your collection in the past, you will want to get in on this year’s set too.  If you are new to Bowman, there are some nice cards to be found here.

Bowman Chrome Baseball falls under our classification of trading cards. Hobby boxes contain 18 – 4 card packs and feature one autographed card in every box.

Here is a look at some of the cards we pulled.

Contest Winners For Our Week 11 Panini NFL Stickers Players To Watch Challenge Questions And NFL Player Of The Day Promotion

This was the last opportunity to win prizes in our weekly challenge questions contest, but keep on the look out for more ways to enter our Main Prize Pool in our 2012 Panini America NFL Player Of The Day Promotion.

We only had one winner this week with an Ordine was Dakota Webb on Twitter. 

For the Ordine, Dakota Webb will have his choice of a pack of NFLPOD cards or a randomly selected individual Silver Foil NFL Player of the Day card that includes players like Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, RG3, Tim Tebow, Trent Richardson and others.

To claim your prizes, email us at AACNFLPOD (at) Yahoo (dot) com with you selection and make sure to include your shipping address.  You have until Wednesday, November 21, 2012 to claim your prizes.

The Challenge Questions and correct answers this week were:

2012 Panini Score Football NFL Trading Cards Box Break Recap And Review

With the evolution of sports cards moving towards bigger and bigger hits, the dedicated set builder can often be overlooked.  So when a card set of 300 base cards, 100 rookie cards with a wide variety of inserts is released that is offered at $0.99 a pack, set builders should take note.  2012 Panini Score Football delivers this and more

Score Football could easily be mistaken for fun cards because of their price point, but there is some real collecting to be done here so we classify this set as trading cards. You can find them in a variety of configurations, but complete boxes come with 36 – 7 card packs.

Lets take a look at some of the cards we pulled.