Every so often there comes a design that just makes you cringe. It either is composed like a jpg from MS Paint, it uses terrible composition, or it just hits all the wrong notes. The cards in Panini's Super Bowl 50 promo are worse than all of that. Its not as ugly as Spectra, but it is pretty damn close.

Here are the live cards, and yes, for some god forsaken reason, people are bidding:

2016 Panini Super Bowl Promo Jameis Winston Auto Patch

2016 Panini Super Bowl Promo Russell Wilson Private Signings /4

2016 Panini Super Bowl Promo Blake Bortles Private Signings 1/1

2016 Panini Super Bowl Promo Thomas Rawls Private Signings /25

2016 Panini Super Bowl Promo Tony Romo Private Signings /10

Here is the thing about working with stickers, a concept Panini just never fucking understands. If you are going to use stickers, you cant use dark backgrounds. You just cant. If a dark background is chosen, a lighter colored box has to be put behind the sticker, or you wont be able to see the autograph. This OBVIOUS concept did not seem to phase their design team, as that is exactly what they did.

I just dont understand how someone with any intelligence can design a black backround sticker auto card with a straight face.

Not only do the cards look like someone blindly designed the layout, but they are coupled with boxes that are purchased at more than double the market price. Yes, in order to get this trash, someone had to buy full price boxes of Prizm Draft, Crown Royale, or other products. Try to contain your laughter for a second. Yes, there are many people who thought this promo was worth buying shitty cards, just so that you could get free shitty cards with it. Great call. Way to go smart people!

I dont really have much else to say, because its rare that I shit on free stuff. Im sorry, but I just couldnt help myself here. They could have at least made an effort to make the cards look good. Those white boxes alone just send me straight for the eye wash.