CARDBOARD REVIEW:2020 Panini Rookies and Stars

2020 Rookies and Stars comes out full force that contains both rookies and stars. I haven't seen this product in a few years as it has been a Target exclusive and as much as I hoped and prayed we would get a Target in our dying mall, it hasn't happened. Not even a Walmart within an hour either.

But, fortunately I have been able to pick up and trade for singles of cards I have needed the last few years. This year however, I was able to break a box.

Wanna see how it went, well, read below!

 

Each hobby box comes with 6 packs of 10 cards each. There will be 2 autographs and 2 memorabilia cards per box as well and boxes are currently priced in 2020 levels at $240.

BASE:

 

A 200 card base set builds up this years Rookies and Stars. There are 100 veterans and

100 rookies. These were my best rookie finds in this break.

Rookies and Stars base design stays to its true self with a white/color background and no action photography.

PARALLELS

You can find the following parallels, Green, Purple, Red, Orange /99, Longevity /80, True Blue /49, Red & Blue /35, Gold /10, Black & Blue /5, Platinum 1/1, and Printing Plates 1/1.

I found a Red/White/Blue /35 in this break.

INSERTS:

Base Inserts have the following parallels, Orange /99, True Blue /49, Purple /39, Gold /10, Green /5, and Platinum 1/1

Chrome Inserts have the following parallels White, Red /75, Pink /50, Purple /35, Orange /25, Gold /10, Green /5, Black 1/1, and Printing Plates 1/1.

Rookie Rush has 20 cards to collect. Not bad to find a Herbert.

Action Packed...kept the name...just not the embossing (paging Panini) has 30 cards to collect.

Pulled an orange /99 parallel.

There are 20 cards to find in Ticket Masters. I found a few decent names in my break.

Touchdown Club has 10 cards to collect

Standing Ovations takes a dive back in design to the late 90's. The only difference is that these aren't numbered like those days. There are 20 cards to find in this set.

Great American Heroes takes on a fun design and are chromed. This is one of the red parallels /75. Pat Tillman is a great man both on the field and off the field for this country. I wished I could land his Fleer rookie card someday.

Stellar Rookies and Chase Young was one for sure. This is an Orange /25 parallel as you can tell by the background color.

HITS:

Two Cross Training Rookies of Kmet and Shednault. Both showed some flashes this season.

AJ Dillion auto. He came up big in a couple of games. Could be the future back there.

And Jordan Love True Blue parallel /35. The way Aaron Rodgers played this season, Love could be sitting back for a few years.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Not a bad break at all with the /25 Chase Young, AJ Dillion and Jordan Love autographs.

I really liked the chrome based inserts in this product and are probably my favorite designed cards overall for it.

RATINGS BASED ON THIS BOX BREAK

Design ⭐⭐

Inserts ⭐⭐⭐

Parallels ⭐

Hits ⭐⭐⭐

Value  ⭐⭐⭐

Fun Factor ⭐⭐

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2020 Playoff Football

Playoff football is here and so isn't Playoff football.

I may or many not have saved this review for this time of year. Nothing is more exciting than the NFL Playoffs, especially when the Patriots are out of them.

Let's see if this box break ended up being just as exciting as that,

Every box of 2020 Playoff football comes with 12 packs of 8 cards each. There are 4 hits in every box and boxes are currently running around $220. Which is probably twice what they normally would but looking at how the hobby is going, I can only imagine where these prices are hiking to next.

BASE:

The base set is built up of 300 cards that feature veterans

Legends of the past

And stars of the future. Speaking of stars of the future, you only find one-per-pack and it feels like long odds of actually pulling the bigger stars. Love was my by a mile my best player of the box.

PARALLELS:

You can find the following parallels, Goal Line, Kickoff, Red Zone, 1st Down #/99, 2nd Down #/49, 3rd Down #/25, 4th Down #/10, Touchdown 1/1.

 

1st down is /99

2nd down is /49

3rd down /25

INSERTS:

Inserts offer the following parallels, Blue, Pink, Purple, Red, Silver, Gold #/10, Touchdown 1/1.

I like the chrome technology used on this years inserts. They really stand out, though in some ways, feel out of place with a non base chrome product.

Behind the Numbers has 30 cards to collect. Can't go wrong with the three guys I landed.

Call To Arms has 20 cards to chase

20 cards to fill up Thunder and Lightning set. That Saquon and Slayton is pure fire.

30 cards makes up Rookie Wave. I really like these, especially finding a Burrow.

HITS:

Changing Stripes is made up of players who played for multiple teams. I dig this Dickerson.

Turning Pro. Tua played well and almost led them to a Playoff game up until they met the Bills in Week 17. Wowzah.

Harrison Bryant Rookie Auto

And a really tough SSP pull of a Preview Contenders Rookie Ticket auto. This one is /23

There we have it!

FINAL THOUGHTS

The hits were fun, but for me, Playoff was all about those shiny inserts. I really liked those and looked forward to finding them.

When it comes to box price vs what I pulled however, it isn't pretty. Now if that Higgins had been a Burrow that would have changed the story on this one.

RATINGS BASED ON THIS BOX BREAK

Design ⭐⭐

Inserts ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Parallels ⭐

Hits ⭐⭐

Value  ⭐ 1/2

Fun Factor ⭐⭐⭐

Another One Full Of Cardboard

It was another big-sized-a-lot-of-cards-involved trade with me and @APetrelak.

I have no idea what started this trade, but we dove in deep and fast into it and within a matter of a week or so, we pulled it off.

Alec and myself have pulled off many Twitter trades over the years and I have lost track of how many. Some are big and some are small. I would call this an in-between with nothing huge hauled in terms of valuable cardboard, just huge in volume. No matter the size or value, it's the good time we have doing these trades and helping each other out for our collections is what really matters.

This haul as I said was pretty big, my picture here doesn't really do it justice in the amount of volume I got.

 

 Let's check out this haul that included 90's inserts, rookie cards and some odds and ends just because.

Jordan Love green Prizm. Not sure when Love will or if hit the field but at least I have a rookie card of him.

Chase Briscoe autograph

Andruw Jones 90's insert

Will Hernandez is really struggling this season. He was supposed to be an all-star guard but is letting people go right by him.

Noah Gragson auto

Atomic Refractor, doesn't matter the player

When  I see this metal, I will take it all day. Don't care about the team or players involved.

Josh Jacobs yellow parallel

Alonso update rookie

NASCAR Prizms, no I don't really collect NASCAR, but looking at them I could I turn them down. My eyes see shiny and that's enough for me.

Thanks goes out to Alec for another solid trade and I look forward to our next.

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