The Panini AmericaNFL product team made a small piece of hobby history Monday morning by taking command of the Panini America Twitter account to provide live updates from the packout process for 2014 Elite Football. It marked the first time that Panini America’s Chris Barr transferred his hockey takeover talents to the football field.
As a result, our Twitter followers had the best seat in the house Monday morning as the Elite packout unfolded with several explosive sneak peeks of the goodness to come when the product releases one week from today. We’re still lobbying Barr to change his Twitter handle from @PaniniPuck to @PaniniPigskin, thanks in large part to Tweets such as these:
But those are just the Twitter highlights. In the Quality Control Gallery that follows, we provide 108 more reasons to share our excitement for next week’s release of 2014 Elite Football, including the triumphant returns of the spindle-mounted Down & Distance memorabilia cards and laser-cut Profiles, the introduction of the Clarity Plexiglas cards, a stacked autograph roster, the multicolored parallel chases of Status, Aspirations and Turn of the Century, and, well, a whole lot else.
Enjoy the gallery — and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for additional coverage.