Topps Adds Autographed Logo Cards to Finest Football

Finest Football is usually a pretty straightforward product: base cards and rookie cards on Topps' Chrome stock, generous helpings of Refractor parallels and autographs. It's a simple but effective formula that's served it pretty well.

That doesn't mean it can't use any tweaking though, especially since competition makes all the card manufacturers continue to try to innovate and improve with each successive season. In the case of 2008 Finest, Topps is punching up the content with autographed NFL logo cards of some of this season's top rookies.

As you can see from the Darren McFadden card pictured here, these cards will pair an autograph with the entire NFL shield from the player's jersey, and they are limited to just 15 copies. They aren't the first cards of their kind - Upper Deck, especially, has been using game-worn shields in 1-of-1 cards for a while - but they definitely look cool and it's hard to see them not becoming a popular addition to Finest.

This season's edition of Finest Football is currently scheduled to go on sale on September 18, but you can keep an eye on its actual release date with About.com's Sports Cards New Release Calendar.

Image courtesy of and copyright Topps.