Panini Makes First Favre Vikings Card a Walmart Exclusive
Panini America officials had the rare opportunity to stop the presses over the weekend, doing so on the retail version of 2009 Donruss Threads in an effort to include what promises to be Brett Favre‘s first Minnesota Vikings card.
The card, also the first to incorporate game photography from Favre’s Vikings debut last Friday in a preseason game against Kansas City, will be inserted exclusively into Walmart blister packs of Donruss Threads, due out this week.
“Panini America dispatched a photographer to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome with the sole intention of creating this historical card,” said Panini America Marketing Manager Scott Prusha. “We wanted Favre’s first official Vikings trading card to be an in-game action shot of him wearing the purple No. 4.
“We were able to send a photographer to the game Friday night, print cards Saturday and have them ready for product insertion first thing Monday morning.”
— Tracy Hackler
Congratulations on having the first Favre card but hopefully things will only get better from here. Panini should have dispatched a team of designers to a design school, talk about busy and visually unappealing. If your going to rid the background of all sense of place ie. a game, please completely remove the background. Also, drop the players name to a lower position on the card.
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