2011 Prestige Box
WHAT WE PULLED
Packs Per Box: 24
Cards Per Pack: 8
Cards Per Box: 192
Base Set Completion: 164 out of 300
Base Set Completion (w/o Rookies): 138 out of 200
Duplicates: 0
Parallels: 8
Extra Points Gold (2) - Brooks Reed, Devin Hester
Extra Points Red (1) - Von Miller
Draft Picks Light Blue (3) - Stephen Paea, Curtis Brown, Blaine Gabbert
Draft Picks Rights Autographs (2) - Jerrel Jernigan, Tyler Sash
Inserts: 20
Connections (1) - Javhid Best/Calvin Johnson
Inside The Numbers (1) - Maurice Jones-Drew
NFL Passport (1) - Aldon Smith
League Leaders (1) - Eli Manning, Carson Palmer, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady
League Leaders Dual Jerseys (1) - Michael Turner, Chris Johnson
Stars Of The NFL (4) - Mark Sanchez, Carson Palmer, Sam Bradford, Greg Jennings
Rookie Review (1) - T.J. Ward
NFL Draft Class (3) - Pat Devlin, Jacquizz Rodgers, DeAndre McDaniel
Prestigious Pros Green (1) - Julius Peppers
Prestigious Pros Red Jerseys (1) - Tony Romo
Prestigious Pros Red (4) - DeAngelo Hall, Dez Bryant, Ryan Grant, Nate Washington
Prestigious Pors Blue Patch (1) - Reggie Bush
Our Thoughts:
Prestige Football 2011 is a microcosm of what many people dislike about releases in the previous editions of Playoff cards and now that plagues Panini. Way too many parallels of base cards and also inserts. The Extra Points parallels have Gold, Red, Purple, Green, Black. Then the Draft Picks Light Blue/Rights Autos are included. Extra Points Black Signatures are also included. We are up to 8 parallels of a base set. That is ridiculous. It is the same with the inserts. Each and every insert set has parallels of the base insert. All told, there are over 25 parallels of base set cards and base insert cards. Talk about overkill and making people just not want to buy this product.
Speaking of inserts, there are 10 base inserts in this product. There are 300 base cards and 329 base insert cards. Not a way of making friends. Panini has to eliminate some of these inserts. The inserts should be about half the cards that the base sets are, otherwise the inserts mean nothing. As i was pulling these cards out of the box, I was realizing that there are too many unneeded inserts. If I were in charge of this set, I would eliminate the NFL Passport and Stars of the NFL. That would eliminate 90 cards of inserts which would make the remaining inserts mean more.
The design of the base cards is good enough to be attractive. Although on the back if you are going to include the round that they were drafted, I would like to see who they were drafted by. And one final complaint that we here at KBee Cards had was the inclusion of free agent rookies included in the set. There are over 250 players that were drafted in the latest NFL draft. There are 100 rookies in this set and you include a player that the 32 teams passed over all 7 rounds. There is no reason for that. If you take the top 40% of players drafted, you have your 100 players and don't have to worry about any free agents and you might include a player that will play for 10 years instead of including a free agent rookie that is going to be lucky to be on a roster come the next year.
Box Value: 2 out of 5 stars.
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