2018 Panini Classics Football Blaster w/Relic

It's Super Bowl Sunday so why not some 2018 Classics Football?  This blaster had been sitting on the shelf of my local Wal-Mart for quite a while but I really like this set and knew I'd grab it given the chance.  I pulled a nice Amari Cooper Saturday Swatches (below) and 32 of my 64 cards were retired legends.  Retired legends on new cardboard is always fun.  I'm looking forward to the Super Bowl tonight.  It should be a good game and these cards are a nice primer.  

 More Peyton is always good.  Manning has won two Super Bowls with two different teams.  I like both of his inserts.

James and Marino each made one Super Bowl appearance but never won the ultimate prize while Emmitt and the Cowboys picked up three titles in his career there.

I'm very happy with my pull.  Plenty of current stars to enjoy along with the greats from years past.

Terrell Suggs was a part of the champion Baltimore Ravens who defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the power outage bowl.

Great classic duo. Who didn't root for Barry Sanders to make it to the Super Bowl?  For that matter the playoffs...he only went once during his storied career.

BREAKDOWN:

64 – Total Cards
32 - Legends
3 – RC
1 – High Praise
1 – Composers
1 – Classic Clashes
1 – Saturday Swatches

2018 Football Classics

Been looking forward to the 2018 Football Classics cards and this blaster box was everything I could ask for.  True to it's name 29 of the 64 cards featured retired greats.  They spanned all eras to those who recently retired to those who starred in the 50's.  The design has a great throwback look perfect for what they are going for here.

  This box delivered with a Saturday Swatches Mike Evans and a Roquan Smith Blue Black parallel #/175.  These are fairly standard for the blasters and both are nice cards.

I love the L.T. card as the photo really pops.  Excellent picture of Moon in the Vikings' purple as well and you can't go wrong with Bills' legend Jim Kelly.

A trio of all-time great pass catchers this Lance Alworth card is one of favorites pulled.  That action photo and classic uni just scream all-time great.

How can you not enjoy Doug Flutie cards?

I like both of these inserts and it doesn't hurt that they'll both be PC additions.

I like the Instant Classics inserts with it's photo copy/newspaper clipping vibe.

Oh and there were current players as well - of course.  I'm not an Eli guy but I really like that photo of him in the all white uni.  

The backs are a simple three color design that I'm fine with.  Overall I really like these cards and the volume of retired legends really is great to see.  I'll definitely pick up more of these cards given the opportunity.

BREAKDOWN:

64 - Cards

29 - Retired Legends

3 - RC

1 - Saturday Swatches

1 - Blue/Black #/175

1 - Instant Classics

1 - Full Throttle

1 - Eras