Box Breaks: 2 Boxes of 2018 Panini XR Football

 

I've been sick the last couple of weeks, and I got this in Monday, but just getting a chance to open it today. Really no rhyme or reason why I bought this, just decided to take a chance at a couple of boxes. I do like the how the cards look from what I've seen in numerous box breaks. So here we go...this is what I got!

Box 1
Red Parallel
Le'Veon Bell (#77/299)
Chad Thomas (#15/299)

Blue Parallel
Sam Bradford (#84/199)


Orange Parallel
Adam Thielen (#51/99)

Xtreme Rookies Blue Parallel
Josh Rosen (#24/49)

Team Trios Blue Parallel
Matthew Stafford/Kerryon Johnson/Marvin Jones Jr. (#31/49)


Luminous Endorsements Blue Parallel
Keke Coutee (38/49)

Triple Jersey/Ball Auto
Anthony Miller (#119/199)

Box 2


Red Parallel
Aaron Donald (#11/299)
Minkah Fitzpatrick (#156/299)


Blue Parallel
Jimmy Garoppolo (#33/199)

Orange Parallel
Chad Thomas (#29/99)

Gilded Greats
Kurt Warner (#87/99)

150 Panini Points


Rookie Triple Jersey
Calvin Ridley (#62/99)

Triple Patch/Auto Blue Parallel
Nick Chubb (#8/25)

Overall Thoughts: Love the look of the cards and parallels, especially the base which has a large team logo as the background of the card. The Chubb looks really sweet and is a pretty decent pull, the Miller is decent too and though the Luminous Endorsements is a harder auto insert to hit I hit the wrong player. Once again though, PANINI POINTS rears its ugly head and it knocks this break down a couple pegs because of how much I LOATHE them. You will never convince me that Panini Points is a good idea unless Panini decides to change the program where points are an ADDITIONAL hit and they don't replace an AUTOGRAPH HIT anytime you hit them. Just pisses me off and puts a downer on this break for me. If the possibility of hitting 150 shitty points doesn't bother you, then you should try a box or two, relatively speaking, they aren't too expensive, but maybe Singles is the way to go with this product. Pics are the cards

 

 

 

 

 

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