2025 Score-a-Treat Football (20 Packs)

2025 Score-a-Treat:  Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers have struggled this season and overall haven't quite been up to expectations in recent years.  He's only 28 and he and the Pack can still turn thing around.

This is another good Halloween inspired design.  Marlon Humphrey is a 2X 1st Team All-Pro and 4X Pro Bowl selection in his 10-year career with the Ravens.

Jeanty and Judkins are two of the good young running backs in the league.

I like the combination of spooky season and the NFL.  Good job Panini.

The backs are okay, but we don't see the same Halloween esque elements they added to the back of Panini's 2024 Score-a-Treat offering.  A step back in my opinion.  We also had Bats Parallels in that set.

I'd love to see Topps do something similar now that they have the NFL license.  Maybe even an insert set or some type of parallel would be nice.  These cards were sold in "bundles" which had 40 packs of 3 cards each.

And our retired greats.  Defensive back and Hall of Famer Ken Houston had 49 career interceptions while being named a 1st Team All-Pro 2X.  He played 6 of his 14 seasons with the Houston Oilers.

BREAKDOWN:
60 – Total Cards
20 - RC
6 – Retired Greats

Random Wax: 2024 Score-a-Treat Football (20 Packs)

2024 Score-a-Treat:  Patrick Mahomes really is scary.  The 3X Super Bowl Champion and 2X MVP is only 31 which is young in NFL quarterback years.  It's been nice to see him bounce back this season after being injured last season.

Some defensive love with some of the best in the game today.  These cards are lots of fun.  I enjoy spooky season and the NFL so this is the best of both worlds.  Good design.

Bo Nix has done really well as the starting QB in Denver and much more is expected from that young man.  Brian Thomas had a great rookie year but hasn't been able to recreate that magic since then.  With a name like Kool-Aid I had high hopes for the corner in New Orleans but it doesn't seem like it is to be.

And we get retired greats like we do in the Score base set.  Jeff Saturday was a 2X 1st Team All-Pro, 6X Pro Bowl selection and won a Super Bowl with the Colts.

The backs are just as fun.  Plenty of color and Halloween graphics to keep up the spooky vibes.  These cards came in "bundles" which had 40 packs with 3 cards per pack.

More greats of the game from today and years past.  Roger Staubach didn't start his career until after serving in the Navy and wasn't a full-time starter until age 29.  He is 6th all-time in starting quarterback winning percentage and led the league in passer rating 4X in his career while winning 2X Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.

BREAKDOWN:
60 – Total Cards
29 – Bat Parallel
20 – RC (Rising Stars)
8 – Retired Greats

Random Wax: 2023 Score Football Blaster

2023 Score:   A nice card of Hall of Famer Charles Woodson to start this post out. One of the all-time greats at corner, he was a 3X 1st Team All-Pro, 9X Pro Bowler, Defensive Player of the Year, and won a championship with the 2010 Green Bay Packers.  His 65 interceptions are tied for 5th all-time with Ken Riley.

I've always liked this design.  It really feels like the Chargers are missing out on some prime years of Justin Herbert's career.  They've won 10 or 11 games in three of his seasons but just can't seem to get over the hump and be a true contender.  They sit at 0-3 this year in what might already be a lost season for the Chargers.

Nice photo on this Nick Bosa Sack Attack insert.

Jahmyr Gibbs already has 3 Pro Bowl selections and has twice run for 1200 or more yards in a season.

That first card is a Lava Parallel #/565 while Tee Higgins shows up on a Gold Parallel.  We also get Zay Flowers on a Protential insert.

Huddle Up cards are fun.

Good looking cards and we get some good photography as well.  The bottom of these fronts always make me think of a scoreboard.

Fun Celebration card in the snow.

Big fan of these First Ballot cards.  The Hall of Fame logo is so sharp, and I really like the 2023 design.  And it doesn't get much better than The Sheriff.

Myles Garrett is banged up in his first season with the Rams but I expect he'll back to his dominant self once he returns.  Cooper Kupp has won two Super Bowls, with those same Rams and the Seattle Seahawks.

Great photo of Jalen Hurts on this celebration card.  Definitely a trend.

Love the All-Time greats in Score.  Ronde Barber is a 3X 1st Team All-Pro, member of the Hall of Fame and on the All-2000s Team.  47 interceptions for his career, which ironically ties him for 47th all-time.

Khalil Mack is in his 13th season and still with the Chargers.  Great photo.

Always fun cards and a great pull in this box.

BREAKDOWN:

132 – Total Cards

35 – RC

7 – Retired Greats

6 – Celebration

5 – Protential

4 – Gold Parallel

4 – 2003 Throwback Rookie

3 – Huddle Up

3 – Sack Attack

2 – First Ballot

1 – Lava Parallel #/565

Random Wax: 2021 Score Football

2021 Score:  Josh Allen and the Bills have high expectations again this season.  Hopefully some of the small tweaks and coaching change can get them over the hump.  He passed for 3600+ yards and 25 touchdowns.  He also added 14 touchdowns rushing.  Not his greatest year but one almost any team would take.

Wow, the quarterback landscape has changed in the last 5 years.  And yes, I bought this pack 5 years ago and showing it off for the first time.

None of these three made their mark on the NFL.

These 3D inserts are pretty cool and include retired greats.

I really like that Deion card.  I'm a fan of him and he looks great in the GOAT Falcons red jerseys and all the red works for me on this Game Face insert.  I do like the Next Level Stats but I'm not sure those stats are really "Next Level Worthy".  No offense to Chase Claypool and maybe I'm missing something.  Derrick Henry on a Score Team insert.  Henry is still a beast.  He rushed for over 1500 yards and had 16 touchdowns last season at age 31.  

Good looking Collegiate Champions insert.  I'm a big fan of these with photos from both college and the NFL.  Reggie Bush was also part of that 2009 New Orleans Saints Super Bowl winning team.

I like all three of these photos.

NFL games start tonight and I can't wait!  Some great tight ends and another retired legend.  We'll end it with a great Davante Adams photo.

BREAKDOWN:

40 – Total Cards

7 – RC

4 – Next Level

3 – 3D

3 – Red Parallel

2 – Score Team

2 – Retired Greats

1 – Game Face

1 – Throwback Rookie

1 – Collegiate Champion

Random Wax: 2021 Score Football

2021 Score:   Patrick Mahomes is one of the big questions when the new season starts this fall.  He's coming off a major injury, the Chiefs were already struggling, and you just never know how these things play out.  I really hope he comes back close to normal.

I bought this pack in July of 2021 but just posting it now.  Like a little time capsule.  Things are so different now.  Russel Wilson and the Seahawks had won the 2013 championship and were still on top of the world.  It would still be a few years, but things would change drastically for both.

I had hopes for Zach Wilson.  Maybe rooting for the BYU underdog.  He's still in the league but it has been a rough go of it for him.

I'm okay with the 3D inserts showcasing a trio of defensive players from a team.

Mac Jones has also struggled overall in his career, but he did have success his rookie year in New England and in limited time last year with the 49ers last season.  These are 1991 Throwback Rookies inserts.

More Score Team inserts, which are pretty good, a Next Level Stats insert and Game Face which gives us a retired great.

BREAKDOWN:
40 – Total Cards
9 – RC
3 – 3D
3 – Next Level
3 – Score Team
3 – Red Parallel
2 – 1991 Throwback Rookies
1 – Game Face
1 – Retired Great

Random Wax: 2024 Score Football

2024 Score:   The draft was last week, and all teams have hope again!  Well, most teams do.  Dak Prescott was a 4th round pick in the 2016 draft when Jared Goff was the #1 pick by the Rams their first season back in LA.  Love him or hate him, he's 83-55 in the regular season and 2-5 in the playoffs.

Quinnen Williams was drafted 3rd over all in the 2019 draft and has been 1X All-Pro and 4X Pro-Bowl selection.

Marvin Harrison Jr. was taken 4th overall in the 2024 draft.  This is a solid design for Score.  The helmets are a big plus.

Taken 24th overall in the 2018 draft, DJ Moore was traded to the Buffalo Bills in the offseason.  Baker Mayfield and Saquon Barkley were taken 1, 2 in that draft respectively.

Malik Nabers was taken 6th overall in the 2024 draft.  His 2025 season was cut short due to injury.  Caleb Williams, Jayden Williams and Drake Maye were the first three picks of that quarterback heavy draft.

Trey Hendrickson is a 1X All-Pro and 4X Pro Bowl selection but was taken in the 3rd round of the 2017 draft.  Myles Garrett was taken 1st overall that year.  He's alright.

I'm not a big fan of these though I normally like League Leaders.  These seem to have some random stats, and the overall design isn't my thing.  Brandon Aubrey just signed a 4 yr $28M extension with the Cowboys.  He was went undrafted when Bryce Young was the #1 pick in the 2023 draft.

Celebration are fun inserts.  Tyreek Hill is a 5X All-Pro but was only a 5th round pick in the 2016 draft.  Corey Coleman was the 1st receiver taken in that draft but only totaled 61 receptions in his three seasons in the NFL.

Retired great Ray Lewis making an appearance on that Red Parallel.  One of three in the pack.  Hall of Famer Andre Tippett has always been a favorite of mine.  The 2X All-Pro was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1982 draft.  The Patriots had the #1 overall pick of that draft as well picking defensive end Kenneth Sims.  I love these First Ballot inserts.

BREAKDOWN:
30 – Total Cards
7 – RC
3 - Celebration
3 – Red Parallel
3 – Retired Greats
3 – League Leaders
1 – Potential
1 – First Ballot
1 – Sack Attack
1 – 35th Anniversary Rookie