2011 Panini Prime Signatures Football is a product that has
its advantages and disadvantages.
On the plus side you have a product that could yield a big hit at a
modest price point which allows a broader range of collectors purchase it and
walk away with an amazing card. On
the negative side, if you don’t hit big, the box can be a total bust.
Normally this is the understood scenario for this type of
product, which is perfectly acceptable.
But here, with a quick look at the checklist of hits, it appears the
likelihood of pulling a big hit is lower than usual which is amplified because
there is only one hit per box and not enough additional cards to provide value
as a backup. In addition, with
only one hit per the box, there is no opportunity to spread the risk.
Prime Signatures Football falls into our premium cards
category. Each box contains 4
cards with 1 Autograph card per box.
Here are the cards we pulled from our box.
Rashard Mendenhall #/499
Bo Jackson #/499
Steve Smith #/49
Kevin Walter Autograph - Bronze Level - #/75
Overall Look
No complaints here about the look of these cards. They are nicely done with good blending
of the player image into the white background. Nice foil accents.
Numbering on the front of the card works well. There is a descent amount of information on the backs of the
cards.
Quality and Variety of Players
Here is where the product falls short. It is not the lack of highly
desirable players autographs. They
are all here, the rookie heroes of
2011 like Cam Newton and A.J. Green along with current established stars
like Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, and also retired Hall of Famers like Joe
Namath and Bart Starr. It is the
ratio that they appear that is the problem. With the inclusion of large quantities of close to 90
rookies that had modest first seasons at best and just under 60 mid-level
veteran players making up the bulk of the hits in this product, the deck seems
stacked greatly in favor of the house.
Do the Hits satisfy?
If you pull the one of the big hits, most definitely. But pull someone like Nathan Enderle,
as your only hit, definitely not.
Will you keep coming back for more?
Unfortunately I think this is a product that you might stop
at one purchase. If you hit big on
your first try, I’m not so sure you will be willing to roll the dice again. You could say that buying by the case
here would spread some of the risk but then you lose the one advantage built
into this product, its modest price point.
Rating
3 1/2 out of 5
