2011 Panini Gridiron Gear Football is a solid set of cards
that can be a bit of a chase if you are trying to collect all of the base
rookies. With some nice hits, this
set serves as a good middle ground between the set building of Prestige and
Rookies & Stars and the premium hits of Certified and Absolute Memorabilia.
Gridiron Gear Football falls under our premium cards
category. Each box contains 18 – 8
card packs. It says on the box you
get 2 Autograph OR Memorabilia cards per box but I think it should be 2 Autos
AND 2 Memorabilia cards because that seems to be the norm.
Here are some of the cards we pulled from our box.
Base cards
Drew Brees base, front and back
Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Tim Tebow
Wes Welker, Frank Gore, LeSean McCoy
Rookies - Denarius Moore, Prince Amukamara
Base Card Parallels
Matt Schaub #/250, Dane Sanzenbacher #/250, Marques Coleston #/250
Peyton Hillis #/100, Robert Quinn #/100
Rookie Orientation
A.J. Green non-numbered, Titus Young #/250, Jamie Harper #/100
Ray Lewis - Rashard Mendenhall Crash Course #/250
Arian Foster Breast Cancer Awareness #/250
The Hits
A.J. Green Memorabilia #/299, Beanie Wells Prime Material #/50, Martez Wilson Auto #/299
Vincent Brown Rookie Gridiron Gems Auto #/299
Overall Look
The design is pretty consistent with previous releases of
Gridiron Gear. The inclusion of Breast Cancer Awareness cards is a nice touch.
The standouts, from a design level, are the Rookie Gridiron Gems pulls out
autographs and the Gridiron Signatures.
Quality and Variety of Players
There is a fine selection of 150 veteran players. At 100
total, the rookie cards checklist is deep.
Do the Hits satisfy?
There are many low numbered big hits here, but this is
called Gridiron Gear so expect some of the bigger hits to come in the
Memorabilia cards. Even having said
that, the autograph cards cannot be overlooked.
Will you keep coming back for more?
This is the type of product that crosses line, working for
different types of collectors. Since only a handful of Rookie Cards can be
found in each box, set builders will be in for multiple boxes breaks.
Rating
4 out of 5
2011 Panini Gridiron Gear Football is somewhat of a hybrid
release that finds a comfortable place in the middle of the pack, providing
opportunities for a wide range of collectors.
Did you get doubles? I got 4 doubles of rookies in one box. But a terrelle pryor rookie auto and a sick 9 color patch of julio, locker, ryan williams to 25
ReplyDeleteI got 4 of these from a Ravens game I attended. No idea what they're worth.
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