What: 2017 Panini Gold Standard football cards
Arrives: July 12
Box basics: Five autos or mem cards per seven-card box (12 boxes per case via two inners)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Panini America's lustrous line hits the gridiron with at least one rookie jersey auto per box and plenty more creations that are golden.

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What: 2017 TRISTAR Quest autographs
Arrives: June 7
Box basics: Five envelopes per lockbox -- each with an autographed flat or memorabilia redemption inside (three lockboxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This TRISTAR line will be limited to only 50 cases of autographed items from around the sports world and beyond.

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What: 2017 Leaf Autographed Football Helmets
Arrives: August
Box basics: One autographed full-sized replica helmet per box (four boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers another edition of this one with every box yielding either a Hall of Famer, past legend, current NFL star or rookie.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Plenty of baseball and some impressive pulls and projects.

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What: 2017 Panini Prestige football cards
Arrives: June 7
Box basics: Four autographed cards per four-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Prestige is back with an autograph in every pack, new looks at new rookies with their new teams noted and plenty of energy as we await a new NFL season on the field this fall but get a new season on cardboard.

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What: 2017 Historic Autographs Ink'd Threads
Arrives: May 3
Box basics: One autographed jersey per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Hall of Famers from baseball, football and basketball will join some notable stars from today and some surprise non-sports inclusions in a product that includes nothing but signed jerseys.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? We recently launched 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. This is a faster break in that style -- but not the launching of a new 12 in 12. (We'll perhaps have one of those next month. Click the logo below to see the previous posts in the series.)

The pack: 2016 Panini Classics football (blaster box)
The cost: $19.99

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What: 2017 Leaf Autographed Football Jersey Edition
Arrives: July
Box basics: One autographed custom jersey per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf once again brings the fabric of the game to the blind-wrapped football memorabilia market with "the widest selection of NFL stars, hot rookies, NFL Hall of Famers, legends and more."

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What: 2017 Leaf Autographed Football Mini Helmets
Arrives: June
Box basics: One autographed mini-helmet per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings a new batch of autographed mini-helmets to the masses here with some surprises in the mix, too. One of them? Polk High School's Al Bundy aka Ed O'Neil.

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Fanatics Authentic has a few unique autographs available now that come with no strings attached.

Nevermind, that won't work ... there are actually six.

A series of autographed guitars -- items that are officially licensed musical instruments on their own -- have been enhanced with autographs that offer a colorful higher-end option for a sports fan who's big on music, too.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks, 2017 Topps Heritage, unauthorized proof cards on eBay, Tom Brady RCs and "Why is Chrome king -- and can it endure?"

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big NFL and MLB collecting questions.

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The champs are here -- and "here" is Panini Instant.

The New England Patriots' stunning come-from-behind overtime victory in Super Bowl LI on Sunday is now documented via a new commemorative football card set from Panini America revealed on Wednesday.

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You probably have seen all of the on-field superlatives that add to the legacy of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and that debate that's really not a debate at all.

If he wasn't already (he was), his team's overtime victory in Super Bowl LI solidified that status on Sunday night in Houston -- but that's not the only way that it's obvious that he's the best.

The easiest way to know is to look at his autograph fees ... and, yes, he still signs.

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If you didn't know, Super Bowl LI is on Sunday with the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots facing off for top honors in the NFL -- something the Patriots have done four times and something the Falcons have come up short at grasping one previous time.

We all know the household names here and that list starts with the quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Matt Ryan, but we also should all know that this is one of those games where an unknown and cardless player could become a postseason legend like Malcolm Butler two years ago.

So, who else should be on the radar of football collectors already?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big Star Wars pulls, NFL Draft re-do, a Tom Brady question ... and questionable Tom Brady cards?

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Five catches, 124 years and two touchdowns.

That's the final line for Pittsburgh Steelers WR Antonio Brown in Sunday's 30-12 victory over the Miami Dolphins in their playoff-opening game. At this point, it's the kind of showing that we expect from one of the league's elite who had 106 catches for 1,284 yards and 12 TDs this season.

His 2010 Rookie Cards show him fresh out of Central Michigan and can be found in more than 20 brands that season, including Absolute Memorabilia, Bowman Sterling, Certified, Classics, Crown Royale, Donruss Elite, Epix, Exquisite Collection, Limited, Gridiron Gear, Plates & Patches, Threads, Contenders, National Treasures, Prestige, Rookies & Stars, SP Authentic, SPx, Score and Sweet Spot. You can expect to pay top dollar for anything of him that's relatively rare and his auto RCs (Exquisite, Plates & Patches, Contenders, National Treasures, SPA and SPx) will be even more volatile and in-demand. It just comes with the territory.

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The regular season is now over in the NFL and that means one thing -- we now have final stats.

Ok, ok ... it also means the playoffs.

But for many rookies and players who are important in the hobby and may not be playing this weekend, those final stats are one way to assess whether we should continue to sink our dollars into their cards. Two rookies of note in 2016, Dallas' Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, will still be playing and they lead off our first of 13 Buzz Poll questions all about the NFL this year.

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We're a week away from a rematch between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers in the College Football Playoff -- and we're less than a week away from the newest college football cards from Panini America.

No, you haven't missed any First Buzz previews -- we're talking about promo cards for those attending the big game.

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Panini Instant has welcomed two more teams into the NFL playoffs.

Joining the previously released Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks team sets are 25-card releases for the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders.

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What: 2017 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Football Mini Helmets
Arrives: Feb. 1
Box basics: One autographed mini helmet per box (10 boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures football brand returns to the field with some extra potential twists for collectors along with a guarantee of six Hall of Famers in every case.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2013 Topps football cards (retail box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

Packs per box: 16
Cards per pack: 12
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
162 of 440 (37 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards: Andrew Luck, Adrian Peterson, Russell Wilson, Dez Bryant, Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Larry Fitzgerald, Cam Newton

Rookie Cards (45) – Notables include Le'Veon Bell, Desmond Trufant, Tyrann Mathieu

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016 Panini Prizm football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby jumbo)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
16 of 200 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Dez Bryant, Le'Veon Bell, Sammy Watkins, Jordan Matthews

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We're roughly one month away from Black Friday and Panini America has detailed its plans for its bonus programs for collectors on both that day as well as Cyber Monday.

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We're less than a week away from the latest high-end football card brand from Panini America and it's one that looks like it has a pretty high standard.

One might call it impeccable.

The brand is 2016 Panini Impeccable and it will pack some serious punch with metal cards, autographed memorabilia cards and standard autographs -- and plenty of on-card autographs.

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