REVIEW: 2015 Panini Gridiron Kings

In order for me to review Panini's newest product on the market, I asked for some backup. I had my wife bust the box with me, yeah he's cool like that, and she helped me out on the review leaving her thoughts for me to put down on here.

2015 Panini Gridrion Kings follows suit of the baseball version Diamond Kings.This is the first time since 2003 that Gridiron Kings comes out as a standalone product. It's a colorful and artistic array of NFL cards against a canvas backdrop. Every card appears as a nice piece of artwork!

In every box you will find one autograph and one memorabilia card. Each box will run you around or a little under $65.

As I stated above, the overall product is artistic. Normally, I am not a fan of cards done that way unless they are strictly inserts, but Panini did a great job with it. My wife was also both blown away and drawn in by the color schemes and design. Another thing to note here about the base cards is that there are also RARE Collegiate variations to find. I didn't see one in my box.

Base card back: 

 

The rookies all come framed adding an extra attraction to the already well rounded artistic design. I would have actually like to had seen all base been done this way.

 

Speaking of framed, you will get quite a few in a box. My wife fell in love with them and every time she pulled one, sometimes two, in a pack, there called for a celebration! Here is a small breakdown of that and the inserts you should find in a box: one Blue Frame base card, three Red Frame Rookie Cards, one Blue Frame Rookie Card, one Red Frame Limited Lithos, two All-Time Stat Kings, one Red Frame All-Time Stat Kings and five additional inserts or parallels.

Hands down, this Odell Beckham Jr. was my favorite base and framed parallel. Imagine if they had done, "the catch" that way......WOWZAHS!

Deion. I know some like him better in his ATL uni, but I like the SF one. Even though I think he was best known in Dallas.

 

All-Time stat kings with red and blue border parallels.

The other inserts. My phone acting up again with the sideways pics....

Not too shabby as the art theme is found all throughout.

 

  

This is a pretty cool insert. The concept and design.

Art Noveau which highlights memorabilia worn by the 2015 NFL Draft Class. It looks similar to Inception, but I like it more. My wife agreed that these looked nice.

The autographs are really cool in this product. Some come framed, some not. Either with or without the sticker auto, things look sharp.

 

Overall, not too bad. My box wasn't the sharpest, but with a nice design, price point and some big hits hiding within, it's much worth the risk. My wife would agree. She was a huge fan of the product and after I told her the price-point she felt it was worth it. As some of you know, it's best not to argue or be against the Mrs :-D

Review:2015 Certified Football

One of my favorite Panini products, Certified comes blaring out of a box full of shiny goodness. How did I fair with this box...well...you need to read on!

Before I continue on, I must thank Panini America for the review box and you can look for some of these cards in a future giveaway. Please take a minute out to thank them as well.

Now onto the review:


BOX BREAKDOWN:

Every box of 2015 Panini Certified football comes with 10 packs per box and 5 cards per pack. There are four hits per box, 2 auto (one is supposed to be a patch/auto), 2 memorabilia and boxes will run ya around $90.

BASE CARDS:
Base cards for Certified remain the same, a silver foilboard. However, this years looks much better with the addition of a designed background. I think they look really sharp.

There are 100 vets, 75 rookies and 25 Immortals shaping up the base set. 

Rookie cards are still numbered to 999 as well. They also don't seem to fall too many per box either.

This is the Immortals. They also are numbered. The Young is a mirror red numbered to 99. These parallels stand out even more now with the background design.

SP'S AND VARIATIONS:
N/A

INSERTS: 
SHINY GOODNESS! Check these bad boys out! You should find two Mirror Silver parallels, one Mirror Silver Rookie, one Skills insert, one three Stars inserts and one Certified Legends.

Here are the Mirror Silver parallels. Look awesome!

I beat the odds here and pulled three Legends inserts. This one is of Deion Sanders.

 

Elway is a Mirror Red and Namath is a Mirror Gold numbered to 50 of Legends inserts!!

Here is a Gold Team and three Stars inserts including the biggest of them Odell!

MEMORABILIA CARDS:

More shiny goodness. New Generation jersey cards numbered to 799. These are also done in the base card design. I like the balance of the card with the swatch. These are the kind of one-colored jersey cards I can deal with. I bet patches look amazing on these.

AUTOGRAPHED CARDS:
All of you sticker autograph haters, not me as I see an auto as an auto no matter what it's written on, you might not like the two pulls from my box. Here is a Certified Signature of Ravens Terrence Magee.

And my best pull of the box in my Freshman Fabric. Jeremy Langford. Look at how beautiful this card looks. Even the poor signature doesn't take away from the card. This may possibly be the best designed Freshman Fabric card yet!

OVERALL THOUGHTS:
As a collector who really enjoys things that glisten, I had a blast opening this box. Chasing the rarer parallels made for a great pack opening experience as I kept hoping for one in every pack. With that being said, 4 nice looking hits, a base set worth collecting, some numbered cards and the rare parallel chasing makes this one fun break. The price point is a bit steep, but I think the big hits can be found so if you wanted to take a risk on a product, I think this is the one you should definitely rip.