2012 Topps Platinum Football NFL Trading Cards Box Break Recap And Review

A lot of the Rainbow collecting has been taken out of this year’s Topps Platinum NFL Trading Cards.  Gone are the Emerald and Gold parallels, all that remains are the Ruby parallels and you can only find them in Hobby packs, not retail.  What’s also gone is the numbering of any cards other than the hits.  This shifts Platinum from being intended for parallel chasers, focusing the product mainly on hit seekers.  Even that category gets narrowed down as the number of veteran autos has been reduced this year. All of this makes 2012 Topps Platinum Football, which already appears to be kind of hit or miss, a product with a much narrower appeal.  That is a advantage for some collectors and a disadvantage for others.

Topps Platinum falls under our premium cards category.  Each box contains 20 packs with 5 cards per pack.  Each box delivers 3 autographs, two of those will be Rookie On-Card Autographs and one will be an Autograph Patch Relic card.

Here are some of the cards we pulled.

The Order Of The First 20 Picks In The 2013 NFL Draft

Now that the 2012 NFL regular season has concluded the draft order for the first 20 picks of the 2013 NFL Draft have been determined.  The Kansas City Chiefs will have the number one pick overall. 

At 2 wins, 14 losses, the Chiefs finished the season with the same record as the Jacksonville Jaguars but get the first pick based on the Strength of Schedule Tiebreaker.

The combined record of all the teams faced during the regular season determines the Strength of Schedule for any team. Jacksonville faced teams with a combined record of 138 – 118 while Kansas City faced teams with a combine record of 132 – 124.  Fewer opponent wins equates to an easier schedule for the Chiefs.

Picks 21 to 32 of the first round will be determined based on the results of the 2012 Playoffs with the winning team of Super Bowl XLVII getting the last pick in the first round of the draft.   The only caveat know to that is that Washington’s first round draft pick will go to the St. Louis Rams as part of a previous trade that gave the Redskins the second overall pick in 2012.  This was the trade that allowed the Redskins to pick up RG3.  (See the full details of this trade, use this link to see that post.)

So here is the order for the first 20 picks of the 2013 NFL Draft that will take place in New York City on April 25 – 27, 2013.

2012 Topps Chrome Football Box Break Recap And Review

This year’s Topps Football base cards were filled with excellent photography and design which has carried over to 2012 Topps Chrome Football.  Collectors of the base set will appreciate the shiny version and various refractor parallels. With great looking inserts, including 1957 style Rookie cards, 1965 Tall Boys and Red Zone Rookie Diecuts 2012 Topps Football a great purchase.

Topps Chrome Football falls under our trading card category.  Each box contains 24 - 4 cards per packs with 1 rookie card per pack and the promise of 1 chrome rookie autographed card per box.

Here are some of the cards we pulled.

Did The Trade Happy Rams Give It All Away In The 2012 NFL Draft?

Draft day trades are always interesting.  Teams try to improve their position, maneuvering their way higher in the draft so they can snag the next superstar.  But in 2012, the St. Louis Rams seem to have been a little trade happy, giving away the number 2 pick overall and a lot more.  With RG3 a candidate for rookie of the year, the question is did the Rams give away too much?

Here are the details of all the trades the Rams conducted involving the 2012 draft starting with the biggest trade.

2012 Topps Prime Football Box Break Recap and Review

Topps Prime Football returns for 2012 and comes on strong.  The hit concentration is heavily on the Rookie class in auto, auto relic booklet cards and multiple tier level hit form.  With all of that hit goodness it is still hard to miss the amazing full bleed photograph that makes these base cards stand out.

Topps Prime Football falls under our premium cards category.  Each box contains 10 - 6 card packs and promises 1 Autograph, 1 Autographed Relic and 2 additional Relic cards.

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

2012 Topps Football Complete Set Box Break and Review

A completed boxed set of cards seems counter intuitive for collectors who are set builders.  But one cannot deny the convenience of have the entire base set in one convenient box.  As with most recent collections, 2012 Topps Football Complete Set NFL Trading Cards offers all the base cards with a bonus found exclusively in the product   The departure from mimicking the design of the current year’s flagship baseball release makes for a great design and a desirable set to own.

Clearly, this package gets classification as a boxed set for the purposes of this review. Inside you’ll find the complete 440 card base set, no alternate photo versions or inserts, and each boxes contains a pack of five Orange-Bordered parallels.

For the most part, this review will mimic our previous review of 2012 Topps Football because the cards are the same.

Here are some of the base set cards.

2012 Topps Football Box Break Recap and Review

There have been some changes to the foundation Topps Football release, the most noticeable being the departure from mimicking the design of the current year’s flagship baseball release. All of these changes and additions provide more than enough content to appeal to all types of collectors.  With excellent photography, great looking inserts, 1957 style Rookie cards, 1965 Tall Boys and strong hits make 2012 Topps Football a must purchase.

2012 Topps Football falls under our classification of trading cards. There are several configurations of retail and hobby exclusive packaging.  We opened a hobby box of 36 packs with 10 cards per pack with the promise of one autograph or relic card.

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