While those with the rookie cards of big name Hall of Famers may sell for prices rivaling their baseball counterparts, there are plenty of older football card sets that provide a great bang for your buck. Most are small enough to put together card-by-card but you can also snap up some of these decades old sets for surprisingly low costs. Here are ten sets from the 1950s … [Read more...] about 10 Cheap Football Card Sets From the 50s to the 80s
1967 Philadelphia football cards
Vintage Pack Facts: 1967 Philadelphia Football
Swell brand bubble gum is what they were really selling. It's all over the packaging of Philadelphia Chewing Gum's trading cards in the 1960s. For football card collectors, though, it's those "Philly Gum" cards that are most memorable. Nostalgia if you're old enough. Retro fun if you're not. Philadelphia Gum had wrestled the NFL trading card license away … [Read more...] about Vintage Pack Facts: 1967 Philadelphia Football
8 Bargain-Priced Second Year Vintage Football Cards
Like their baseball counterparts, the prices for higher grade vintage football rookie cards can be tough manage for collectors who aren't blessed with a big budget. That doesn't mean you can't own some high quality early career issues of some of the most memorable names in NFL history. We've identified eight second year cards of some of the most popular … [Read more...] about 8 Bargain-Priced Second Year Vintage Football Cards
5 Great Football Cards From 1967
The NFL is ingrained in our sports conscience now, so it’s hard to remember that it once was a league that battled a bitter rival for nearly a decade. The AFL secured a merger with the more established NFL at mid-decade and played the inaugural Super Bowl on Jan. 15, 1967. The two leagues would merge for the 1970 season, but the merger in football cards already had … [Read more...] about 5 Great Football Cards From 1967