Prizm makes an NFL Return 2013

Panini as expected announced that its popular Prizm brand will make a return in football form for 2013. This years Prizm football already looking like it will outdo last years.

First off, like with the baseball preview, Panini had seemed to add more color to the base cards. Last years had way too much silver for me. That was the biggest difference between Prizm and Chrome in my opinion. Chrome took a Topps base card and "chromed it". So the background behind the players had added color and pictures from the original Topps card background.

Panini didn't have a flagship brand to "prizm" so they created a whole new product. Which would take some tweaking and I believe this years is already much improved.

     

Nice additions to the parallels as well. One of the most popular things about the product was its parallels. And of course they are bringing back die cuts as well.

 

 I even like the added designs and color schemes to the Prizm inserts. Very well done!I really like the Monday Night Heroes insert. The bright color against the crisp silver of the Prizm border really stands out to me.

   

This years Prizm football packs as follows,  20-pack hobby box will have120 total cards. Among the 120, there will be: Two autographs, 20 Rookie Cards, three Prizm parallels and two each of the Rookie Impact, Decade Dominance, Brilliance and Monday Night Heroes inserts.

Let us know your thoughts on 2013 Prizm Football and your thoughts on Prizm overall.

Thoughts On The 2012 NFL Regular Season

Now that the NFL regular season has come to an official end we got to see an amazing year of football.

We got to see three rookie quarterbacks lead their team to the playoffs:

      

Some more great rookie performances by these two running backs:

   

And some great comeback performances and great stories

    

And a record breaking season

Not to mention some surprise teams making runs to the playoffs in Seattle, Washington, Minnesota, Cincinnati and of course Indy which was the greatest story of them all with their coach Chuck Pagano who came back in the teams final game after starting treatment for leukemia in September. That team rode #Chuckstrong to the playoffs.

But we also get to see some sad times as well. First the bounty gate scandal that not only put a little hurt on the league but also hurt the Saints and their season as well. Lucky for them they resigned their coach to a huge contract so they can make a run next season and this scandal will be passed them hopefully. Also, even though I am a huge Giants fan, no longer seeing Andy Reid on the Eagles sidelines will be a little different next season. Reid was was the longest-tenured coach in the NFL at 14 seasons, going 130-92-1 during the regular season. He led the Eagles to nine playoff appearances, including five NFC title games and one Super Bowl that they lost to the Patriots in.

Players and teams that had magic last season like Tim Tebow sat on the pine watching another big shot quarterback falter to lead his team anywhere. The Giants, hate to even talk about this, starting 6-2 looking to defend their title and leading the division by two games and looking playoff bound falling apart towards the end of the season finishing 3-5 and missing out.

Now as we move onto Wild Card Weekend:

NFL Wild Card Weekend schedule

Saturday
4:30 p.m.: Bengals at Texans (NBC)
8 p.m.: Vikings at Packers (NBC)
Sunday
1 p.m.: Colts at Ravens (CBS)
4:30 p.m.: Seahawks at Redskins (Fox)

It will be interesting to see how this exciting season ends and who will be crowned this years Super Bowl champ. I know I have my favorites to win and some I hope that don't. I am sure you do as well.  I am already looking forward to free agency and the off-season as well especially since the Giants missed out. There will be many changes I am sure with players and coaches. And I will be there watching all of it and waiting til next August when training camps and preseason begins.

 Bloggers Note: As for my Wild Card Weekend Picks..I am going Texans, Packers, Ravens and Redskins. But I would rather have the Seahawks win.

SPORT CARD COLLECTORS PANINI'S PLAYER OF THE DAY CONTEST #4

 

There are 6 players on the front of the box, from left of Calvin Johnson, Eli Manning, Trent Richardson, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin. Choose ONE player and give us the amount of TD's for only their main category such passing, running, or receiving that player will have WITHOUT going over!! So if for example, RG3 passes for 2 TD's and runs for 1.we are only counting the 2 TD's he passed for since he is a QB and his main scoring comes from passing. This is part 1 of the contest...part 2 is to pick the winner of these five games. But in order to move onto part 2..you must get part 1 right! If you go over on part 1...part 2 will not count unless everyone else doesn't get part 1 right. 0 is an answer for part 1...but remember if they score 3td's that could hurt you in the second part because you will be 3 off when someone else might be closer. But its a risk you could take and it could reward you.

Here are the 5 games:

Dallas @ Baltimore

NYG @ SF

Minn @ Wash

Green Bay @ Houston

SD @ Denver

The person closest to getting the amount of TD's and the most games wins this week. Winner will be announced on Tuesday 16th.

We wanted to make this weeks a little different and a little bit more challenging :) We will also join in for fun.

YOUR ENTRIES ARE DUE BY SATURDAY NIGHT THE 22ND UNLESS THE PLAYER YOU ARE CHOOSING IS PLAYING ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
Bloggers Note: ALL OF THE BOX PICTURES FEATURED WHEN CLICKED UPON LINK YOU TO A PLACE YOU CAN PURCHASE THEM. MAKES IT EASIER THAN HAVING TO SEARCH FOR THEM WHEN THE BOXES ARE IN FRONT OF YOU TO PURCHASE.

PLEASE also MAKE SURE you click onto the link below to check out the Panini Player Of The Day website! A lot of fun stuff to be found there and WE and Panini will much appreciate it!!

To double check the rules and prizes..follow this link: http://sportcardcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/09/sport-card-collectors-panini-nfl-player.html

YOU ARE ENTERING TO WIN THIS:

PLAYER OF THE DAY PENNANT..AFC EDITION

3 OF THESE

PACK FROM THE NATIONAL..INCLUDES RG3 AND OTHERS

*Contests are open to U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY! (sorry) 

SPORT CARD COLLECTORS PLAYER OF THE DAY CONTEST #2 (CONTEST CLOSED)

 

There are 6 players on the box, from left of Darren McFadden, Tom Brady, Calvin Johnson, Julio Jones, Cam Newton and Mark Ingram. Each side is grouped by vets and by rookies (this box if from 2011). You have the choice of one side..the vets or the rookies (sophomores now but call them rookies in comments). Pick a side whether its rookies or vets, tell us the amount of touchdowns the side you chose will score ALL TOGETHER. The person closest wins! As a tiebreaker, tell us your favorite team and whether or not your team will win this weekend! In event of another tie, we will randomly select a winner. Good Luck to All!


YOUR ENTRIES ARE DUE BY SATURDAY NIGHT UNLESS THE PLAYER YOU ARE CHOOSING IS PLAYING ON THURSDAY NIGHT.THEN IT IS DUE BY KICKOFF OF THURSDAY NIGHTS GAME!

Bloggers Note: ALL OF THE BOX PICTURES FEATURED WHEN CLICKED UPON LINK YOU TO A PLACE YOU CAN PURCHASE THEM. MAKES IT EASIER THAN HAVING TO SEARCH FOR THEM WHEN THE BOXES ARE IN FRONT OF YOU TO PURCHASE.

You are entering to win the following Items:

Peyton Manning set

1 pack of 2012 Player Of The Day cards...Look for randomly inserted autographs!!

Set of Cards from the Hall Of Fame Class

PLEASE also MAKE SURE you click onto the link below to check out the Panini Player Of The Day website! A lot of fun stuff to be found there and WE and Panini will much appreciate it!!

To double check the rules..follow this link: http://sportcardcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/09/sport-card-collectors-panini-nfl-player.html

*Contests are open to U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY! (sorry) 

SPORT CARD COLLECTORS PANINI PLAYER OF THE DAY CONTEST PART 2

Welcome!! If you are reading this...that means you are about to enter Sport Card Collectors Panini Player Of The Day Promo!

First off, I will tell you the purpose of the Panini promotion which is to help get collectors into their local card shops. If you’d like to find our more about how the Panini promotion works, follow this link to the POD site and the rules from Panini are there. To find out if your LCS (Local Card Shop) or another nearby LCS in  your area is participating or not...we will link you there as well: http://www.paninipod.com/2012-NFLPOD/NFLPOD-Shop-Locator.aspx just type in your states abbreviation and like magic all of the participating stores will pop up!

Panini is always doing a great job with their promos and are always looking our for LCS' and their fans.

We announced part one which is a weekly contest...but here is something else we are going to do. A part two!! Everyday until our promo ends we will be posting a card like so:

This is just an example. This is not a Player Of The Day entry. Check back in for those! This is just an information page

 We are calling this Sport Card Collectors Player Of The Day. And we want to see what kind of Panini cards that you might have of the player for the day!!

Here is how the point system will go. You will send us a pic or a link to photobucket at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com,  or another place you have the card stored as a pic. You get one post per day. And can only score from one of the categories. We will put an example below of what that means. You can gain points for not even having a card of the player and just commenting but more points for having a card of the player! We will post all pics of cards emailed to us the following day.

1 point For commenting.

Example: Sport Card Collectors: Hi! Awesome Contest!! You guys rock!!

For this, you will get one point.

2 points for if you don't have a Panini card of the featured player but can link us in comments to either an ebay listing, a Panini Posting from their blog or a pic you have seen elsewhere.

Example: Sport Card Collectors: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-PANINI-EPIX-CALVIN-JOHNSON-CARD-/170909061049?pt=US_Football&hash=item27caf94fb9

For this you will get two points!!

3 points: for having a base card or base insert of the player.

Example: Sport Card Collectors:

For having a base card like this...you will get 3 points!

5 points for having a jersey, autograph, jersey/autograph or low numbered card of the player.

Example:  Sport Card Collectors: 

 

 (We will post your pics when we recieve them through email or the link to them!!!

For any auto, jersey or low numbered card of the player...you will get 5 points!!!


Bonus Points: (Bonus Points are extra and you can earn them ALONG with your one category score) You can earn bonus points. 1 point for posting a link of this contest somewhere, 2 points for getting a friend or family member or card collector or the grouchy old lady that lives in your apartment building,  (make sure they mention your name in comments) to join and 5 points for posting a link of this contest somewhere and getting a friend to join! Make sure you post the link of where you posted this contest in comments along with your daily entry. There is no limit on how many links you post daily (you will get 1 point per link) and how many friends you get to play (you could earn either 2 or 5 points depending on if you do a link as well).

Example:   Sport Card Collectors: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sport-Card-Collectors/207529585958331

This is one bonus point plus your one category point score!

2nd example of way to score bonus:
Sport Card Collectors friend, family or creepy person: Sport Card Collectors sent me here!!

This will give you two points plus your one category point score!! You can earn 2 points per person per day!

3rd example of way to score bonus points:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sport-Card-Collectors/207529585958331 and my friend above

This will give you five points plus your one category point score.

So for having a auto or jersey or low numbered card and posting a link and having a friend join in...you could earn up to 10+ points a day!

By scoring in only one of the categories we mean if you don't have a card of the player, don't have time to find a link and only put a comment you get one point for the day. If you don't have a Panini card of the player but link us to a listing or a pic of one, we give you two points for the day.  If you have a card of the player, once you email us a pic or a link to the card you will get either 3 or 5 points for the card depending on which category it falls under. You don't get one point for commenting plus falling under a category. You fall only under one category.

UPDATED!! HERE ARE NEW WAYS TO SCORE SOME SERIOUS BONUS POINTS!!
  
http://sportcardcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-new-twist-for-bonus-points-for-sport.html 
EARN 50-100 POINTS ON THIS LINK

AND HERE IS ANOTHER WAY:
 http://sportcardcollectors.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-way-to-earn-points-for-sport.html

Now onto the best part! What you can win! The contest is daily, your points are added up daily and updated the next day in the standings link so you can see where you stand. And the daily contest will run until the end of our promotion. The prize at the end is a lot of 3 autograph or jersey cards plus some extra inserts or rookie cards. But the more that play, the better the prizes might be!! All of these prizes for this contets are being awarded straight from our own PC!!

If any of this is confusing, please comment below with any questions! Or you can email us at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com. And thanks for playing in our promotion!

We would also like to remind you to not only participate in our promo but participate in Panini's Player Of The Day promo as well!!

Panini Adrenalyn XL Trading Card Game:updated with more info!

Do any of you play this game for basketball, football or hockey? (Topps has a version for baseball that I haven't tried)

Its a great concept and something I rather enjoy. It combines 2 of my favorite things. Sport Cards and games. However, I still collect the cards like they are cards sometimes. If I get a good rookie card or a hard to find one those are the ones I collect. The Adrenalyn cards do include Sp's like the Silver Signature Brett Favre version which I own, these type of cards get put elsewhere. They are also hard to find. About 3 per a box if you were to buy a box of this product. Favre is one of the rarer finds.

As for the game, you play it like the real sport. It comes with a game board, rules, a binder to put them into and some packs of the cards. And each player, depending on how good they are, have a value number for their position (if the sport is football each player has a passing and running value for offense and defense) and you follow each sports rules. Its not very hard, but is a ton of fun and addictive if you have a sport fan in your family who you can start a rivalry with.

Here is a quick example of how to play the football version we have pictured:

 

As you see, If you throw to Calvin Johnson, you would take Tom Brady's pass number and add it to Calvin Johnsons. That gives you a total of....64. You then look at Brian Urlachers pass number and you subtract that from Calvin's number...64-49=15 yards is what you would gain. This is just a basic way to play. You could complicate things some and add on the boost numbers and so on. Its played like real football. You have 4 downs to get 10 yards. You have 4 quarters and each team gets a possession per quarter. Each Team gets 7 players per offense and defense. 2 on each side are reserves. You can also use them as the markers on the side to mark the quarter, down and the line of scrimmage and where the first down is. These are the breakdown of the 2010 game.

Just one more tip, I have found it more efficient if you are playing someone who doesn't know much about sports, if you shuffle the deck of cards before splitting it in half to make your player selection so that way you or they don't get all of the good players.