For the first time since 1980......

The hobby will have one licensed manufacturer per sport.

Baseball is topps
Football will be panini (next fb season)
Basketball is panini
Hockey is upper deck.

Sure, just like 36 years ago, there will be other cards available but sans logos for the most part.



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Ugh, I still don't understand why the sports want so many unlicensed cards without logos in the hobby. It really cheapens the hobby and looks bad on the sports.

If it's because of big money from exclusive licensing deals, why not just charge a little less to two or three companies, so the combined licensing fees will be more than one exclusive fee.

Austin said:

Ugh, I still don't understand why the sports want so many unlicensed cards without logos in the hobby. It really cheapens the hobby and looks bad on the sports.

If it's because of big money from exclusive licensing deals, why not just charge a little less to two or three companies, so the combined licensing fees will be more than one exclusive fee.

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This.

Austin said:

Ugh, I still don't understand why the sports want so many unlicensed cards without logos in the hobby. It really cheapens the hobby and looks bad on the sports.

If it's because of big money from exclusive licensing deals, why not just charge a little less to two or three companies, so the combined licensing fees will be more than one exclusive fee.

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Exactly!

I'm just glad my main two sports I collect and break are Hockey and Baseball. I can live with UD and Topps, but would hate to have Panini as my only licensed option.

MGiuseffi said:

I'm just glad my main two sports I collect and break are Hockey and Baseball. I can live with UD and Topps, but would hate to have Panini as my only licensed option.

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I wish Panini had the MLB license

Hawk8 said:

I wish Panini had the MLB license

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I wish the old iteration of DLP had an MLB license...not the foil board clown-show that Panini has become.

Panini's football and basketball products have really stunk the last coupla years. Not much variety in style, design or price...

Austin said:

Ugh, I still don't understand why the sports want so many unlicensed cards without logos in the hobby. It really cheapens the hobby and looks bad on the sports.

If it's because of big money from exclusive licensing deals, why not just charge a little less to two or three companies, so the combined licensing fees will be more than one exclusive fee.

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Great point. I won't do cards with no logo's unless it's Jim Thome, and there won't be many of those.

I miss the highly competitive market that existed in the mid-late '90's.

gt2590 said:

Panini's football and basketball products have really stunk the last coupla years. Not much variety in style, design or price...

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Not sure I agree. It's certainly nicer than the same stuff every year by topps. Immaculate is off the chain for both basketball and football!

predatorkj said:

Not sure I agree. It's certainly nicer than the same stuff every year by topps. Immaculate is off the chain for both basketball and football!

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That's one set, and high end at that.

ChasHawk said:

That's one set, and high end at that.

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Pinnacle would have been great with logos. Prizm does pretty well. I dig Donruss as well. Panini does less of the baseball stuff IMO because they don't have a license. If they did, they'd be pretty good I think. I'd say topps' high end stuff is easily on par with Panini but with the mid to lower end products, topps isn't really killing it. I'd say it's easily even.

I guess I'm kind of coming at this with a biased view as I have gotten burned out on baseball. It's very overpriced when compared to collecting basketball and football cards. And I find myself buying more panini stuff (FB/BK wax and singles). And I'm buying based on looks. Being picky. They have a lot of on card autos and gu that actually says "gu'd". Nice looking patches. I notice I'm getting nice looking stuff from Panini and if I buy it on the secondary market, it's usually cheaper than the topps counterpart. Even their sp variations (if you're a set builder) are doable whereas topps thinks it's a great idea to put out 100+ a set. And topps has way too many expensive releases. Way too many.

I think Panini should get a license. I'd love to see it. And I agree with what was said earlier, the MLB and MLBPA would probably be a little heavier in the pocket for it.

No wonder the hobby is losing steam. No licensed manufacturer has any damn incentive to be better. Great job, greed.

I hate the cards showing player a different jersey than team listed [ traded] . I will donate 99% to VFD etc .