Card of the Day: Golden Tate 2010 Panini Plates & Patches – 3-Color Patch Auto Rookie

Whalen Auto Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest is for a Ryan Whalen 2011 Panini Plates & Patches Rookie Auto #’ed/405.  Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, March 22, 2013 @ 8:00 p.m. EST
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post
• You can enter once per day
• The winner will be selected at random
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

Raiders Relic Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest will be for a Darren McFadden 2011 Plates & Patches Jersey #’ed/299.  Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Sunday, March 25, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. EST
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post
• You can enter once per day
• The winner will be selected at random
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

2011 Plates & Patches Football Box Break & Review

Design: 

Once again the design is much like last year’s Plates & Patches.  On the plus side, Panini did do better with the autographed rookie patch cards.  These on-card autographs look good, but I think the area for the player to sign should have been much larger.  In most cases, these cards are the main “hits” of the box and having them encased in a thick holder like they were last year would have been a good idea.

Price: 

Boxes are currently selling for $150.00.

“Hit” Quality: 

You are guaranteed (5) “hits” per box – (1) on-card autographed prime memorabilia rookie, (2) additional autographs, and (2) additional memorabilia cards.  I pulled the following:

Auto/Relic

• Blaine Gabbert on-card autographed prime 1-color patch rookie #’ed/299

Autos

• Ryan Whalen Rookie Auto #’ed/405
• Johnny White Rookie Auto Redemption #’ed/49

Relics

• Darren McFadden Jersey #’ed/299
• A.J. Green Rookie Blitz Jersey #’ed/299

Parallels

• LaQuan Williams Silver Rookie #’ed/100
• Alex Smith Gold #’ed/50

NFL Blitz

• Mark Ingram #’ed/249

Base

• Dez Bryant #’ed/499
• Chad Henne #’ed/499

Overall: 

Overall, I give 2011 Plates & Patches 3 footballs out of 5 (1=poor & 5=perfect).  Like I said before, the design is almost the same as last year’s set.  The rookie autographed patches look slightly better though.

Card of the Day: Henry Hynoski 2011 Plates & Patches RC Auto

And The Winner Is…

Congrats to Dustin Abernathy on being the lucky winner of the Mardy Gilyard 2010 Panini Plates & Patches 2-Color Patch Autographed RC #’ed/699. Once Dustin Abernathy sends me his mailing address I will ship out this card for free.

Gilyard Auto Patch Contest! – NOW CLOSED

Yesterday I busted a box of 2010 Panini Plates & Patches football.  My encased card was a Mardy Gilyard 2-Color Patch Autograph #’ed/699.  I’m giving it away.

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, February 4, 2011 @ 8:00 p.m. EST
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post
• You can enter once per day
• The winner will be selected at random
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!