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Panini America Delivers!
Just got home from work after another late night at the office, and i see two large boxes by the door…what could it be? My Panini order has arrived! Nice! Since i’m still on a deadline and dealing...
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Box Break: 2012 Panini Prime Signatures
Ok, i had a little time this evening with the baby and lovely wife off in the other room having some reading time. So I thought I would open one of the Panini boxes I received last night…and I decide...
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Box Break: 2012 Panini Contenders
I am finally getting around to opening the boxes that have been sitting on my desk for a while now and wanted to start with one of my favorites. Panini’s Contenders. I have always enjoyed the design...
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Box Break: 2012 Panini Absolute Football
I am way behind on reviewing some of the boxes I have opened in the past few months, mostly focusing on cards that i’ve picked up at card shows. I have a few lined up, so here is the first one....
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#PaniniPylon Prizm 1/1 – London Fletcher
When Panini announced their auction for the inaugural season of Prizm Football, I was quite interested in what they had to offer. Seeing that the cards were being issued as uncirculated 1/1 parallels....
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#PaniniPylon Prizm 1/1 – Leonard Hankerson
Next up for the 1/1 series is old alligator arms, Leonard Hankerson. I am still holding out hope that this kid comes through in a major way this season, he seems to have way too much talent to not...
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#PaniniPylon Prizm 1/1 – Santana Moss
My next winning bid for the Prizm Pylon Parallel cards is Tanaman, Santana Moss. This is probably my favorite of all the Prizm Redskin cards. I absolutely love it when the Redskins rock the Burgundy...
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#PaniniPylon Prizm 1/1 – Ryan Kerrigan
The next card from the Panini Pylon auction is Ryan Kerrigan. Ryan has been solid in his first two NFL seasons and is starting to build a decent career in DC. Hopefully he can play a full season with...
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#PaniniPylon Prizm 1/1 – Brian Orakpo
I am going to break one of my rules and have multiple posts in one day in order to get a little caught up on the blogging. I’ve been away from home and have had limited access to a computer the past...
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Metal Reed 1/1
Ok, it’s been a helluva long time since i posted. My absence is due to many reasons, one of them is of course the fact that my Redskins have tanked this season. I thought the first Eagles game was an...
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Black Monday
Ugggghhhh! What did you waste your time doing tonight? Mine was spent fast forwarding through 60 minutes on ineptitude and a pathetic showing on the football field. I really didn’t expect too much...
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Panini Redemption, a story.
Just like you, I hate redemption cards. Why? Well, let me tell you a story… On June 17th of 2012 i purchased a box of Panini Rookie Signatures from my local card shop, The Sports Room. When i opened...
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I can make a M’s hat more famous than a Mariner can
I took some artistic licensing with the well know Jay-Z verse on this post. Robinson Cano is no longer a Yankee and I am kind of sad about that. Next to Jeter, he was my favorite baseball player…a very...
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New cards, new collections + boobs
As I mentioned in a couple other posts, I am adding 3 guys to my personal collection. One of them, and the only one to be in my collection from the NBA is Timothy Theodore Duncan. PS. don’t act like...
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Sick Pickups!
The title is true, but not in the douchey overused term that is used way too much in this hobby today. My whole family was sick, including me. The wife and baby had the H1N1, aka swine flu and...
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Christmas Eve Pickups
I had an extra hour today because I decided that work was so slow that I shouldn’t be there. I left to run some errands and was able to get over to see the fine folks at Hoopla sports cards. I had...
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Black Friday Reeds
Going back to Black Friday. As I mentioned earlier, I jumped all over the COMC.com Black Friday sale and picked up some very nice Jordan Reed cards. These are the kind of cards that you want to put...
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Panini Prizm Redemption, I.Pead
WOW! Two redemptions in less than a month and it’s a decent auto of a decent player. Isaiah Pead, I.Pead. With a name like that he’s lucky that he’s fast and incredibly athletic. I can only imagine...
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Shiny Baseball Cards
My football card blog is lagging in baseball card posts…not really, I just have a few Harpers and a Hanley I wanted to show you kids. These bad boys have been sitting in my man cave aka, my closet!...
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Reed Book(let)s
Here is the next gem of a card to add to my ever growing Jordan Reed collection. This one is a booklet. My first Reed booklet and my 3rd overall (2 Leonard Hankerson’s). This was a pickup from the...
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