2025 Patrick Mahomes Football Tin

Derrick Henry had a monster 2024 first season in Baltimore with 16 touchdowns and almost 2,000 yards.  He's a beast and looks good on this Donruss Optic Light It Up insert.

These tins almost always look cool and pull me in.  About the only thing I can do with them is put things like stickers or other randomness in them.  Still, I fall for these more than I should.  You'll get variety in the form of shiny card brands like Select, Mosaic and Donruss Optic.

Georgia Bulldogs alum Brock Bowers had a great rookie season with the Raiders despite their issues at quarterback.  He had 5 touchdowns and almost 1,200 receiving yards.

Here's the tin.  I like the look and the photo. It's black on the sides with Mahomes name and number in jersey lettering.

The downside to the cards is you won't get many.  I wish there was at least one fat pack or add in some smaller packs of Donruss and Score to give us a bit more.

Always some downsides to tins but I did enjoy this one.  It looks pretty nice, and I pulled a few good cards like this nice-looking Josh Allen My House insert.

BREAKDOWN:

21 – Total Cards

2 – 2024 Donruss Optic Packs (8)

1 – 2023 Select Pack (7)

1 – 2024 Mosaic Pack (6)

 

2024 Championship Collection Football Tin

 2024 Football Tin: I didn't think I'd want one of these but when I saw what was included I was in.  We'll kick it off with a good looking Any Given Sunday insert from 2024 Prestige.  Jared Goff and the Lions are still trying to lock down the #1 seed in the NFC but they have shown they have an offense worthy of the top spot.

Despite the missing logo something about the 2024 design works for me.

You receive two 2024 Prestige packs totaling 20 cards.

You also get two packs of 2024 Score.  I love the helmet on this design.  In my opinion we need more helmets in card designs.

Plenty of options in Score for the youngsters including this nice Jayden Daniels pull on a 35th Anniversary card.  

I'm always down for Contenders so this 2023 pack is a nice inclusion for me.  You'll get a total of six packs in each tin with one of those being a fat pack.

2023 Absolute was my Assorted Panini Pack inclusion.  Only eight cards in the pack but not a bad pull.

My tin.

This is my first look at 2023 Prestige.  I'm okay with these.  I like 2024 a bit better but they are pretty similar.  And on these we still get the college logos.  2023 Prestige was my Fat Pack in the tin.

The inserts.  I like the Alma Maters concept, but the design is a bit funky for me.  I'm all for Record cards as well and this one works for me.  Living Legends is fine and anytime we can get more retired greats I'm happy.

This tin was fun.  For $30 it's basically the price of a blaster and you get a tin to keep.  No, I don't have a plan for the tin but that's okay.  There is also an Optic Edition of the tins.  I might grab another of these.  I won't chase the Optic Editions though as I'm not as big into shiny cards.

BREAKDOWN:

78 – Total Cards

2 2024 Panini Prestige Football Packs

2 2024 Panini Score Football Packs

1 2023 Panini Contenders Football Pack

1 Assorted Panini Pack (2023 Absolute)

1 Assorted Panini Fat Pack (2023 Prestige)

2023-2024 Panini Revolution Basketball Winter Tin

 23-24 Revolution: These tins have been on the shelves for some time, but I didn't bite until now.  We'll kick it off with Steph Curry.  He and the Warriors are having a great year.  His points per game are down a bit this season but as good as Golden State is playing nobody is complaining.  And a great photo.

The cards aren't this dark in hand, but my scanner doesn't do them justice.  They are pretty good-looking cards but probably not my thing.  They put the players name in dark blue on a black background in the bottom right-hand corner.  No clue why they thought that was a good idea.  Just as you can't read the name on the screen, nor can I in hand without getting it to just the right angle.

Four rookies in the tin.  That Jordan Hawkins is one of the three Avalanche Parallels I pulled which all scan entirely different.  Good on Panini for labeling them on the back.  Sometimes, figuring out which parallel Panini cards are is the hardest thing to do.

The backs are pretty good.  Color, logo, photo.  I'm okay with it.

The actual tin the cards came in.  Nothing spectacular but I do have a use for it which helps.  The tin probably increases the price point as well so I'm not sure it's worth it.  I like the Panini tins that are specific to one player more.

You can see some of the winter elements in the scans which is good.

I don't think I'll pick up more of these.  The overall price isn't bad at ~$15 but with only 15 cards in the tin I'll probably stick to picking up singles.

BREAKDOWN:

15 – Total Cards

12 – Winter

4 – RC

3 – Avalanche Parallel

Random Wax: 2021 Topps Baseball Mike Trout Tin

2021 Topps:  Surprised I hadn't shown this one off yet.  I'm a sucker for these sometimes and this was one I picked up two years ago.  My second Mike Trout tin as I also picked up his 2020 Topps Tin.  I also grabbed a 2021 Ronald Acuna Jr. tin which I showed off here.

This 1952 Topps Redux is the highlight of the pack. I like this design and of course having Ohtani on it always helps.  I'd love to see him stay with the Angels but no matter how hard they try in L.A. the team still struggles.  Will be interesting to see how that plays out as this is his last year under contract.

There were big hopes for Jo Adell two years ago.  he can still turn it around but so far his career has not lived up to expectations.

Machado has done well for the Padres since arriving in San Diego via trade in 2018.  Rumor is he'll opt out of his contract after 2023.  He'll be 30 at that time but will probably get more than the $32M per year he is on contract for now.

Never cared for the '86 card design but somehow I like it in these newer sets.  Nice Trout pull too.

Another Ohtani!  I'm digging my pull.

Fun team card.

A couple of greats from the game.  Never get tired of pulling either of these guys.

I really hope Tatis Jr. can bounce back from his suspension and get back on the good side of the baseball gods.  I became of fan of his when he was mic'd up during an all-star game a few years back.  He screwed up, no doubt, but I'm still rooting for him.  Same for Mookie even in a Dodger uni.

That Devers is a 70 Years of Topps Blue Parallel.

Anderson had no idea he'd be a World Champion by year's end.  He had a down year last season but was really good in '20 and '21 including the playoffs.

I paid $14.99 for this tin in '21 and I think it's a good deal.  Can't say I really know what to do with teh tins after the fact but hey I'll figure it out. Happy Friday!

BREAKDOWN:

75 – Cards

10 – RC

6 – 1952 Redux

3 – League Leaders

1 – Team

1 – Chrome

1 – Future Stars

1 – World Series

1 – Chrome 1952 Redux

1 – Chrome 70 Years of Topps

1 – 70 Years of Topps Blue Parallel

1 - 1986 Topps Baseball 35th Anniversary

Panini Basketball Tin (Damian Lillard)

20-21 Prizm/20-21 Optic: Happy New Year!  I don't always gravitate towards tins but when I saw Dame I took the leap.  Just kind of cool and I love Dame.  These come with four packs of cards, two each of 20-21 Prizm and Optic for a total of 16 cards.  I didn't even know what was in it when I bought it.  I assumed it was Hoops actually.

The design on these is good.  They really look good aside of each other.  Brook Lopez is a favorite of mine so I'm happy to see him.

That Caleb Martin is a red parallel.  Not the greatest pull in these two packs overall.  Maybe Optic will be better.

My first look at these.  They are Optic versions of 20-21 Donruss which is fine but not a lot of wow factor for me.  Nice Draymond and my pull was definitely better in these packs. 

Fun tin and pretty good cards.  I wouldn't grab another one of these but I'm happy with my Dame tin.  I can't find a checklist for the tins but looking at eBay most of the major NBA stars are available.  I found mine at Wal-Mart and I think the price was $24.95 but don't hold me to that.

BREAKDOWN:
8 - 2020-2021 Prizm
  1 – RC
  2 – Red Parallel
8 – 2020-2021 Optic
  2 – Rated Rookie
  2 – Purple Parallel