Listen, I know I hate on Panini more than any other company, but in my opinion, they honestly do some of the stupidest things of any of the big three. Whether its turning National Treasures into a cheap looking crapfest of shitty looking cards, their disgusting overuse of hideous foilboard
, or even their decision to make 90% of their products structured the exact same way, its frustrating to say the least. The funny thing is, the things I mentioned above are just part of the laundry list of stuff they do wrong.
One thing they have NEVER succeeded at is names. Just when you think it cant get any worse, they put out more cards that absolutely dumbfound me in terms of what they are called. This includes, but is not limited to:
Down and Distance from Elite – Seriously, there could not be a more boring part of the game to name a subset after. Why don’t we name a baseball subset after a 2-0 hitter’s count? How about a Hockey subset after the shift changes? Maybe a basketball set after the second of two freethrows? Absolutely laughable.
Initial Steps from Limited – Rookies sitting on steps looking creepy. I don’t think much else needs to be said about this retarded play on words.
Rookie Orientation themed cards from multiple sets– Yeah, Panini really likes to play on the fact that rookies in many parts of life have orientations. No reason to name sets after it.
Shirt off my back from Certified – Just a stupid concept for a stupid looking set. Maybe we should have a follow up set “socks off my feet” or “Pants off my ass.”
That’s just the start of it, and now once I saw this post yesterday, im getting that much more worried. Instead of just calling 2010-11 Certified the way it has been called for many years in other sports, this year its going to be TOTALLY Certified. I don’t get it. I really don’t get it. They cant be that TOTALLY stupid. Not only that, but instead of the popular Mirror sets, everything is now named TOTALLY this or TOTALLY that. Yup, 2011 Certified is now a 1990’s surfer dude. Totally.
I really hope they TOTALLY pull their heads out of their asses rather that TOTALLY decide to put out TOTALLY Certified Football for 2011, as that would TOTALLY make me barf all over their TOTALLY ugly cards.
Its almost like they wanted to see just how far they could push it before people would laugh and throw their hands up before buying another unlicensed product instead. There was TOTALLY no reason to TOTALLY change it to TOTALLY Certified, as I can think of about five hundred adjectives that would have been a better idea than this crap. I guess that’s panini for you, always looking to lower the bar further than it has ever been before.
I can’t wait for thier new RIGHTEOUS and GNARLY sets to come out!
Haters gonna hate.
Cowabunga Quarterbacks!!
Comedy gold. LOL’d when I read this post.
And Topps Unrivaled NFL was just that. 🙂
Man….I can’t wait….like you know dude…for totally to be like “totally” in a set of it’s own. That’s righteous ya know!
@Big D – LOL!
I was thinking of BITCHIN and RADICAL.
The name is actually based on the Pinnacle 1997 Totally Certified releases? The Hockey set featured a similar triangle background and the baseball set had an upside triangle background. As ugly as the set is they at least stay true to the original horrible design.
Corky you cant seriously be comparing this piece of trash with the 1997 release. A recent sale of a Will Clark Platinum Gold for over $300 should let you know where the old release stands. Dufex technology is superior to this day.
The video on these card is so lame. In 14 years people will still collect the 1997 release and no one will want these lame-o HRX cards even if there are gold.
Surfer boys everywhere wants to own these cards …..like for sure dude!
So, does this mean that anything released prior to 2011 was not totally certified? If not, who let it out of the production facility? I like to know that my overpriced pile of shit was, indeed, totally certified shit.
Will the descriptive verbage used to describe sets be used in an escalating manner, over the course of their release schedule to help new collectors determine the level of shit they are buying? Words like ‘Totally’ and ‘Awesome’ would define low end releases. Words like “Wicked”, “Stealth” and/or “Blazing” would define mid-level with a bit more attitude. Words like “Fu@$(&g”, “Kickass” would be reserved for the products that rape your wallet, released months after the season has ended, of course….
“Shirt off my Back” is terrible. Absolute Basketball features one that I love to hate: “Hoopla”. Are these people proud of the subset names they come up with?
Panini just posted their pics for the new subset “Leather Larceny.” Just when you think it cant get any worse…
Actually, I don’t mind ‘Shirt off My Back’ much. It’s a pretty descriptive name for a jersey set that nobody’s going to care much about regardless of name, so why not give it a name that lets you know it’s nothing but jerseys?
The rest of these, however, are completely pointless. Sorry, TOTALLY pointless.
I like that name, it’s funny. If you are the expert lets hear some names you think are better?