Coffee Break:2022 Prestige Hobby H2 Hybrid Box (BIG HIT!!!)

*sits down with cup of steaming hot coffee in hand.*

*takes a sip and gets ready for a new Cards Over Coffee*

Football season is right around the corner!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! And nothing gets me more pumped than opening up some NEW NFL football cards before the season begins!! Yeah, there are draft football products out, but nothing tickles my coffee senses more than a new NFL release with most players updated with their new teams and rookies with at least a team logo.

One of the early season products to include these is Prestige which has been a longstanding favorite of this bloggers for quite some time.

Recently I was able to get my hands onto a box and wanted to show it off on here.

*takes a sip, prepares to rip*

Every 2022 Prestige Hobby H2 Hybrid box comes with 10 packs of 10 cards. I have never opened a hybrid box before so this was new territory for me. Each of these boxes should have 20 Rookies10 Galaxy Parallels, 10 #'d Parallels and 20 Inserts. I am not sure if these have guaranteed hits or not. Boxes currently run just under $200 depending on where you buy one.

*takes a sip, begins to rip*

BASE:

The base set is much bigger this year than past year releases. There is 300 veteran base which includes legendary players and players in updated uniforms such as Russ Wilson in a Broncos uni which is plain weird. 90 more cards make up the rookies then 10 more rookies on top of that are Sp's. Overall, there are 400 cards.

The base card design fits past designs and there are some action shots to be found.

Card back with a nice writeup, image and one year of stats. I do miss the more stats years.

Here are a couple more base card image sneaks. Legendary players and rookies that are featured in college unis but have team color scheme and team logos.

PARALLELS:

You can find the following parallels in 2022 Prestige football,

XTRA POINTS PARALLELS: Astral, Diamond, Dots, Galaxy, Sunburst, Red /449, Blue /299, Green /249, Purple /199, Gold /99, Orange /75, Pink /50, Platinum /25, and Black 1/1.
XTRA POINTS PREMIUM PARALLELS: Red /449, Blue /299, Green /249, Purple /199, Gold /99, Orange /75, Pink /50, Platinum /25, and Black 1/1.

Galaxy parallels

Red /449

Gold /99

Purple /199 (sweet PC card)

Green /249

Blue /299

Blue /299

(side note, notice the difference in the blues, the shiny one is the Premium parallel. so two same numbered colored parallels, two different looks)

Platinum /25

Red /449

Not too bad for numbered parallels.

INSERTS:

Inserts may have the following parallels,

Red /449, Blue /299, Green /249, Purple /149, Gold /99, Orange /75, Pink /50, Platinum /25, and Black 1/1.

Youth Movement have the young guys from last years draft.  There are 20 cards in all to collect.

Franchise Favorites have 15 cards in the set to collect.

Any Given Sunday includes those guys who could pull out the last minute win when it counts. 20 of these guys are in the set to collect. Of course for me Eli was the most important one and I now have in via trade. You will have to follow Big Blue Cardboard to view that card.

20 cards of those guys you want to watch make up the Hightlight Reel checklist.

Prestigous Pros 25 card set returns once again to Prestige.

15 cards in the Heroes insert set. Other than the Unleashed insert, Marvel Insert, this is my third favorite insert Panini makes. Kupp is a Blue /299.

10 cards in the Time Stamped insert.

Living Legends, hopefully I can add the Eli Manning to my PC soon. There are 30 of these to collect.

25 cards make up the Power House insert.

Ranking as my 4th favorite Panini insert are these Season's Greetings. There are 25 cards to collect and the design is basically the same as last years. I am okay with that. I wished they would do NFL versions.

*takes a quick coffee break before moving onto the final card of the box, which was actually pulled in the first pack*

HITS:

 

I am not sure if these are guaranteed or not, but you can't go wrong landing a top draft pick autograph!! BOOM SHAKALAKA! This is also on-card. I think these were signed at the RPS.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

I liked this year's product again, especially the shiny inserts and parallels.

The box price on these is quite steep with no actual guarantees and that worries me. However, there are retail options for Prestige such as blaster boxes that are just as much fun but cheaper options (under $30).

Ratings (ratings based on 1-5 🍵 and on a per box basis. not for overall product)

Design 🍵🍵🍵🍵
Photography 🍵🍵🍵
Inserts: 🍵🍵🍵🍵
Hits 🍵🍵🍵🍵
Price 🍵
Value 🍵🍵🍵

Your thoughts on this product welcomed in comments!

*takes one final sip*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2022 Panini Chronicles Draft Football Hobby Box

INTERNET!!! Well, at least this morning.

So, let's celebrate that with a cup of piping hot coffee and a box of cards to open.

Let's rip open one of the latest products from Panini to kick off the new season of football, 2022 Panini Chronicles Draft.

*takes a sip, gets ready to rip*

Every box of 2022 Panini Chronicles Draft Picks has 6 packs of 8 cards. Every box also has 4 hits to find for $170 per box. There should be three autographs and one relic card per box.

BASE:

There is a Chronicles base set (the Hutchinson), but there is also a total of 12 products included in Chronicles.  I call them all base sets, others may call them inserts. I just wished they were all included into one set and have them tiered.

Most of the sets are 2022 rookie class heavy, but there are some veterans mixed in as well including one Eli Manning I need to get cards of still.

Here are some of the other "base" set offerings. Most of them include 25 in each "base" set except Spectra that is 100 cards deep.

 

PARALLELS:

Each of the 12 sets has their own parallel offerings. Here are the ones I found in my break.

Recon has, 

Bronze, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Green Cracked Ice /6, and Platinum 1/1.

Blue /99

Phoenix has the following parallels,

Bronze, Pink, Silver, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Green Cracked Ice /6, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

Blue /99. Guess it's a blue box. This card looks pretty cool and was one of my favorite cards from the break. He is also my favorite player from this draft that's not a Giant.

Optic has the following parallels,

Bronze, Holo, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Green Cracked Ice /6, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

Holo Silver

Spectra has the following parallels,

Neon Blue /99, Neon Pink /75, Neon Green /49, Red /25, Gold /10, Emerald /5, and Nebula 1/1.

Neon Pink /75. Stunning card.

Donruss Retro has the following parallels,

Bronze, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Green Cracked Ice /6, and Platinum 1/1.

Purple /49 (anyone have any favorite cards from the original series designed like this?)

Before moving onto the hits. My stomach is rumbling and I need a coffee refill. These reviews take a long time to write.

*gets up, brews fresh cup of coffee*

*proceeds to toaster and makes two pieces of wheat toast with light butter. sits back down and gets ready to complete this post*

*takes a sip, a bite of toast and gets moving on*

HITS:

Dan Marino Moxie relic card. Let's first say how cool this card looks. Second, what an odd relic swatch. Looks like a practice jersey penny relic. I want to hear your guys thoughts in comments.

Breece Hall of the J...E...T..S

David Ojabo autograph with the Origins design. 

College Ticket rookie auto of Tyler Goodson.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

My final thoughts on this product is what is always is when it comes to Chronicles, I like the concept, but I think it still needs tweaking. I prefer the base set be built up of the different products. Maybe not have different products with the same player checklist. Make one checklist of 200 cards, 100 veterans and 100 rookies. Use your 12 to 20 different product designs in that 200 card checklist and mix it up some.

Other than that, the parallels are fun and seeing more than just a basic design is as well.

The value in this break though was tough for the cost. Hopefully I saved the good hits for you guys.

Thoughts on this break welcomed in comments.

Have a great Wednesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2021-22 Bowman University Football (Double Case Hits??)

*sits down and gets today's post coffee ready for this blog*

For the first time since 2016...TOPPS FOOTBALL IS BACK!!!

It's been a long time coming for this blogger who misses the good ole days.

The only difference this time with Topps football, is that there are no logos and no veteran players. You are looking strictly at prospects (players who haven't been drafted yet) and rookies for this upcoming NFL season.

Either way, I was quite intrigued by this product and I am excited to open a box up after passing on some retail.

Let's check it out together,

*takes a sip, begins to rip*

Every hobby box of 2021-22 Bowman University football comes with 24 packs of 4 cards. It's set up sort of like Topps Chrome used to be for football. Each box comes with 2 autographs and prices currently run $150.

BASE:

The base set has 100 cards using the same design as 2022 Bowman baseball.

Card Backs

It appears that each player has a 1st Bowman card and a prospect card in that 100-card set. My guess is 50/50 split.

Just like with Bowman, there is a Chromed base set as well. The only difference between this and Bowman is that every chrome card is a base refractor. There are also 100 cards in this set as well and fall 1:6 packs.

PARALLELS:

There is also one other thing different between this product and Bowman baseball and that there is not any paper base parallels.

However, there are still Chromed ones,

Pink, Shimmer, Purple, Aqua /299, Blue /199, Fuchsia Mini-Diamond /150, Lava /100, Green /99, Green Shimmer /99, Yellow /75, Gold /50, Gold Shimmer /50, Orange /25, Orange Shimmer /25, Red /5, Red Shimmer /5, Black Shimmer 1/1, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Shimmer

Nice one right here with Matt Corral!! Panthers have been needing a QB and they found him in the 3rd round of this years draft.

INSERTS:

Most inserts have the following parallels,

Aqua /150, Orange /25, and FoilFractor 1/1.

Golden Boy has 15 cards to collect and this falls 1:8 packs.

Bowman Invicta comes to Bowman University as well. These fall 1:12 hobby only packs and have 20 cards to collect.

2000 Bowman Set. No Tom Brady, but could see some of NFL's brightest play with the 2000 Bowman design. There are 30 cards that fall 1:6 packs.

Big Kahuna is a case hit falling 1:288 packs! John was a pick by the Texans who have been needing some WR depth.

HITS:

Jerome Ford Bowman 1st autograph. He was drafted by the Browns in the 5th round.

And...a second case hit??? Falling 1:388 is this Big Kahuna autograph of Marvin Mims that is numbered to 150. He could be a big time WR in the future for whomever drafts him.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

This was a good time to be honest. Looking at all of the other unlicensed football products out there, Sage, Leaf, this one is by far superior over those ones.

Big Kahuna card looks really cool as most case hits do and I really like the thought of the 1st Bowman inclusion in football. However, just wished the checklist was a bit deeper or maybe get some veterans involved. I don't think there should be a prospect and 1st Bowman card unless its for a following years release. Since this is the first one, all of the base set should have been 1st Bowmans.

This break actually left me wanting to break more and I might if I spy some retail again.

Thoughts on the return of Topps football is welcomed in comments below.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*