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
1978 Topps Football
Johnny Rodgers’ Legendary College Career Didn’t Lead to Football Cards Until Much Later
Have you ever sat around with a group of collectors and talked about how some players just seem to have countless cards produced during their careers? We can all think of that promising middle reliever or outfield prospect who get hundreds of cards made but ends up with a short and mediocre career. The same goes for that promising wide receiver who is a bust, or maybe that … [Read more...] about Johnny Rodgers’ Legendary College Career Didn’t Lead to Football Cards Until Much Later
Vintage Pack Facts: 1978 Topps Football
The Dallas Cowboys were the defending Super Bowl champs. The Pittsburgh Steelers would soon answer with their latest Lombardi Trophy. The two titanic teams of the 70s were well represented in Topps' lone football card product, including Tony Dorsett and John Stallworth, two future Hall of Famers whose rookie cards were on the checklist. This edition of Vintage … [Read more...] about Vintage Pack Facts: 1978 Topps Football
1978 Holsum-Gardner Football Set a Regional Rarity
If you lived in Minnesota or Wisconsin in the late 1970s and early 1980s and collected sports cards, you probably ingested a lot of carbohydrates. It's where Holsum and Gardner's brand breads kept collectors full by offering a few different sets as promotions aimed at youngsters. They cranked out three different football issues during the time period including … [Read more...] about 1978 Holsum-Gardner Football Set a Regional Rarity
1978 Topps Football Set Anchored By Hall of Fame Rookies
The NFL was changing forever. A 16 game regular season instead of 14. Two more playoff teams. Rule changes to open up the passing game. Not everything was changing in 1978, though. The average player salary was just over $62,000. Several teams still played on AstroTurf. It was against that backdrop that the 1978 Topps football set was … [Read more...] about 1978 Topps Football Set Anchored By Hall of Fame Rookies