2026 Score-a-Treat Multi-Sport (20 Packs)

2026 Score-a-Treat:   Ray Lewis is about as scary as any player out there.  He was a 7X 1st Team All-Pro.  For reference, the all-time leaders, Jerry Rice and Otto Graham, had 10X 1st Team All-Pro selections and Tom Brady, for all his greatness, was only selected 3X.

Not having a license in any of the major sports didn't scare Panini off from releasing a set specific to the Halloween season.  In this set you'll see baseball, basketball, boxing and football cards.  Here we have a Holo Bones Parallel #/149, Pumpkins Parallel, and Holo Webs Parallel.

Plenty of retired greats in this set and we get Calvin Johnson on a Slime Parallel.  I'm not usually a fan of sets with no team logos but I picked these up since they were new, they are cheap, and they are Halloween themed.  That Dan Fouts card is a base card with white borders.  He led the league in passing yards 4 straight seasons and passing yards per game for 6 seasons.

NIL players are a big part of the set including 19 of the 60 cads from these packs.  We also see RC cards.  Plenty of youngsters across the sports.

Monster Bash cards are one of the subsets.  Not sure how much I feel "monster bash" with this design.  I think they could have hammered that home better.

These cards are sold in a "bundle" like Panini's previous Halloween themed sets.  There are 40 packs per bundle with 3 cards in each set.

The design overall is fine.  I wish every card had a Halloween type of border but still these are okay.  I didn't see these at Wal-Mart so I did grab two bundles on eBay.  I'll share these in the upcoming years in 20-pack increments.

Haunted House is the other subset and I like these.  We get a haunted house in the background which gives us a good visual.  These are fun cards for the price and theme, and perfect for October.

BREAKDOWN:
60 – Total Cards
19 – NIL
12 – Monster Bash
8 – Pumpkin Parallel
7 – Slime Parallel
7 – Haunted House
4 - RC
3 – Holo Webs Parallels 
1 – Holo Skeletons Parallel #/149

2026 Topps Football Hanger Box

2026 Topps:   Jaxon Smith-Njigba is not only a stud wide receiver with a new record-breaking contract, but also a world champion thanks the Seahawks' surprising Super Bowl run.

How Mahomes comes back from injury will be a big story this year and help shape how the AFC plays out.  I'm rooting for him to make a good comeback.  We've already seen this design with the 2026 Topps baseball release.  I like the design and it works here as well too.

The backs lack the career stats we see with baseball.  I don't know why that is and it's very disappointing. 

Plenty of youngsters to go around.

Team card and its back.  I'd rather have team stats and team leaders here but it's hard to argue with the starting lineups.  But still, I want to see numbers.

Here we have 2 Diamante Parallels, exclusive to hanger boxes, and a Holo Foil Parallel.  I'm a fan of the Diamante parallels so I tend to pick up hanger boxes.  You get 2 in a box.

Horizontal offering.  Not enough of these in the set for my taste.  Football looks good in horizontal photos.  There are 400 cards in the base set.

James Cook ran for over 1600 yards and for 12 touchdowns last season.

I really like League Leaders cards and these look good.

Another QB coming off injury, Daniel Jones' play will determine how the Colts do this year.  They were 8-5 with him starting but lost the last 4 games, and last 6 overall, to miss out on the playoffs.  Was last season a fluke for Jones or is he the real deal?

Combo Cards always highlight some type of combo or duo.

Inserts in this box included Greatest Hits, All-Topps Team, 35th Anniversary and Pressure Cookers.  I like all of these.  Not a big fan of 1991 Topps but the tweaks here help.  I like the contrast on the Greatest Hits, and I've always been a fan of "All-Topps" teams.  Enjoy day 1 of the NFL football season!

BREAKDOWN:
59 – Total Cards
15 – RC
2 – Diamante Parallel
2 – Topps 35th Anniversary
1 – Team Card
1 – Combo Card
1 – Greatest Hits
1 – League Leaders
1 – Holo Foil Parallel
1 – Pressure Cookers
1 – 2025 All Topps Team
1 – Topps All-Rookie Team

2026 Donruss NASCAR Blaster with Relic

2026 NASCAR:  Kyle Busch, my favorite current driver, passed away unexpectedly this May.  The NASCAR playoffs start today, and Busch was no stranger to racing for the championship.  He won 2 NASCAR Championships (2015 and 2019), was ranked in the top 5, 7 times, and inside the top 10, 10 times.  I do like the Unleashed inserts.  First race in the 2026 Chase is Darlington, starting at 5 ET today.  And "The Chase" is the new branding for the NASCAR playoffs. 

The base design this season isn't bad. Not great but okay.  I say this every year, but I don't get why Panini doesn't add a tire, the driver's car number, a car graphic or something else to liven up the fronts. 

We do see a return of Rides, or car shots, this year which is great.  2025 Donruss NASCAR didn't include these cards, and it was a bummer.  Jeff Gordon is an all-time great with 4 Championships to his credit, and this Dupont paint scheme is synonymous with him as a driver.

You get 1 optic in each blaster pack for a total of 7.  Here you see two Orange Velocity Parallels along with a base optic card.  Retired great Carl Edwards did not win a title but was top 10 in the standings 8X in his 13 year career.

New this season is Team Logos cards.  This one isn't the most exciting looking logo going, but I like the addition of these cards.

I've seen this design before, but I can't remember the year to save my life.  After a rough start to his season, Joey Logano has raced back into the championship fight.  He's a 2X Champion and can't be ruled out.  He's seen here on a Lime Green Parallel #/199.

A couple of Rated Rookies and an Artist Proof #/25.

Toni Breidinger only raced a few truck races this season but this Laser Parallel Ride card is still a nice pull.  Not sure if she'll make her way back into a full-time ride but I'm pulling for her.  It's fun seeing the ladies doing better in the sport.

My Souvenir Swatches relic and Race Kings insert.  The Dale Jr. pull is great.  He's a NASCAR Hall of Famer with 26 career wins and has always been a fan favorite.  He's an announcer now and his Dirty Mo Media company provides plenty of great NASCAR content including his own weekly podcast which I really enjoy.  I always look forward to the Race Kings cards I like the design this year.  The car, or truck in this case, take on a prominent role on the card.  Layne Riggs was the champion in the Truck Series last season and deservedly gets his own Race Kings card.

Not a fan of Spellbound which are used to spell out a driver's name.  It doesn't work in a binder, so I don't get the point.  Carson Hocevar is only 23 and an excellent young driver in this year's Chase.  Aggressive on the track, many aren't fans, especially other drivers.  But he's a good personality for the sport.

This year's set is back up to 200 cards as opposed to the drop to 100 we saw in 2025.  We see drivers from across the three NASCAR top series - Cup, O'Reilly and Truck series.  Butterbean Queen is another young talent who has taken the sport by storm as much for his personality more than the driving we've seen so far.

Nice shot of Layne Riggs' truck.

We also get retired greats in this set which is so much fun.  All four of these drivers are in fire suits with their classic sponsors on them.  Rusty Wallace is my favorite NASCAR driver of all time, and he won 1 Championship in his career, finishing top 5 in the standings 7X.

BREAKDOWN:
56 – Total Cards
9 – Rides
9 – Retired Greats
7– Retro
7 – Optic
4 – Orange Velocity
2 – Rated Rookie
1 - Unleashed
1 – Team Logo
1 – Race Kings
1 - Spellbound
1 – Laser Parallel
1 – Artist Proof #/25
1 – Souvenir Swatches
1 – Lime Green Parallel #/199

1992 Lime Rock Pro Cheerleaders

1992 Cheerleaders:  The Raiderettes have been around for a long time, starting out in the 60s while becoming more popular in the 70s.  The logos are the actual squad logos.

This set highlighted 4 teams - Cowboys, Dolphins, Raiders, Saints.  These are niche NFL cards but I like them as an interesting aside to the sport.  The Cowboys Cheerleaders are probably the most famous of all the squads and I do remember them well from when I was a kid.

The design is simple.  The squad's logo, photo and name.  They made sure you could see the name which meant it would move around depending on the photo.

The backs give us personal information for each of the girls and a personal photos.

Not something I collect, but I've come across these packs over the years.  They are cheap and the set is good for what it is.

BREAKDOWN:
11 - Total Cards

1993 Bowman Football (Affordable Breaks)

1993 Bowman:   This Jim Kelly is a foil card from this set.  It's not a parallel.  It's the only Jim Kelly card but has a different design from the majority of the cards.

These are from an Affordable Breaks break in 2021 and I'm just getting around to sharing.  The design isn't bad but does feel a bit lacking.  What you see here is the majority of the cards as opposed to the foil cards.  Lots of room for the photos, and the photos are solid, so no complaints there.

1993 would be the year Buffalo went to their 4th straight Super Bowl and the 4th straight year us Bills fans went home crying.  This time they lost to Dallas 30-13 in Super Bowl XXVIII.

Nice Melvin Jenkins photo.  I'm not posting every card I pulled from the break.  Lots of fun memories from this set including The Cajun Cannon Bobby Hebert.

The foil cards seem to have gone to the star players on each team.  Kelly and Thurman Thomas for the Bills while Andre Rison is the only Falcon Foil.  Rison would go on to lead the league in touchdowns in 1993 with 15 and set a career high in receiving yards with 1,242.

BREAKDOWN:
I didn't get a full set of either team but was only one card away from the entire Falcons team set.

1986 Fleer Baseball

1986 Fleer:  Sweet Lou was Rookie of the Year, a 5X All-Star, 4X Silver Slugger and 3X Gold Glove selectee.  He won a Championship with the 1984 Detroit Tigers.  He played his entire 19-year career in Detroit and turned 1,527 double plays with shortstop Alan Trammel, an MLB record that will probably never be broken.

This design is one I've always liked for some reason.  Very simple but works for me though more action shots would have been appreciated.  Bill Madlock won 4 batting titles, 2 with the Cubs and 2 with the Pirates, and won a championship with the 1979 Pirates.  Cecil Cooper was a career .298 hitter and Jerry Royster is one of the random favorite all-time players of mine.

The backs have tons of stats which is great.  Not the most visually appealing but I'll take stats any day.  The back of the sticker is solid with fun famous feats.  

Greg Gross hit .287 and had a .387 on base percentage over 3,745 at bats but only hit 7 dingers.  Five of those in one season.  Power was definitely not his thing.

Ron Washington with the great look rocking the hair and Twins uni.  John Franco was a 4X All-Star and twice the Rolaids Relief pitcher of the year.  Fun pack of cards and we'll end it with the always fun sticker.

BREAKDOWN:
15 – Total Cards
1 – Sticker