While winning a Super Bowl is the ultimate prize in the National Football League, being named the most valuable player of the championship game is a ticket to sports immortality. Of the 44 players who have won the award in a half-century of Super Bowls, 19 have already been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Winning an MVP award can take a standout or even … [Read more...]
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Super Bowl MVPs and their Rookie Cards
Super Bowl MVPs Rookie Cards Explained Sixty Minutes. Technically, that is the length of the Super Bowl. Of course, add in the pre-game build-up, the halftime show and all the multi-million dollar commercial breaks in between, and the event feels more like a three-day weekend festival. So it’s a bit of a misnomer to suggest the game only lasts 60 … [Read more...]
Photo of the Day: Starr’s Career Begins
The Green Bay Packers will salute the two greatest quarterbacks in franchise history Thursday night in what promises to be an emotional night at Lambeau Field. The franchise will retire Brett Favre’s number 4 but in attendance, perhaps for the last time, will be Hall of Fame quarterback and fan favorite Bart Starr, now 81. Starr suffered a series of strokes last year but … [Read more...]
Most Valuable Super Bowl Programs
Any TV broadcast documenting the aura of a major sporting event invariably uses a few setup shots of people tailgating and then walking into the stadium. It's standard operating procedure. And that one audio clip is always used to help set the scene, just outside the front entrance to the stadium of a vendor: "GET YOUR PROGRAM HERE!" It's been customary over … [Read more...]
Bart Starr Cards Chronicle Rise of Packers, NFL
Perhaps his finest hour came on a frigid day at Lambeau Field on New Year's Eve 1967 in the Ice Bowl game against Dallas, but the famous sneak was really one of many great moments. To many, he was Mr. Quarterback. Bart Starr cards are among the most popular of those trading cards issued during the explosive growth of the National Football League in the … [Read more...]
Best Football Cards of the 60s Include Champions, Tragedy
A good list of the best football cards of the 60s isn’t necessarily all about the rookie cards. Pro football cards created in that era gave us some all-time greats, a rivalry between two leagues and two card manufacturers, rookie cards enveloped in tragedy and a single card that represents the league's prevailing dynasty. The 1960s was a time for explosive growth in the … [Read more...]
Complete Run of Signed Super Bowl Programs
Have you ever seen a complete run of Super Bowl programs? From the first one, held in Los Angeles in January of 1967 (when it was called the ‘NFL/AFL world Championship Game’) to the one held in Indianapolis last February? How about a complete run of programs signed by the MVPs of each game? Ken Gardner of Kid Cannon Sports in Fremont, CA has one. He was at the National … [Read more...]
Starr Donates Championship Rings to Team Hall of Fame
The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame Inc. on Saturday received a “championship” donation from Bart and Cherry Starr, items representing four of the five NFL titles the Packers won under the legendary quarterback, as well as a necklace from Cherry with charms from all five championships. Included in the donation are Starr’s championship rings from NFL titles won during the 1961, … [Read more...]
Florida Man Arrested for Stealing Cards, Etc.
A Spring Hill, Florida man with a long rap sheet is facing several new counts of theft after Hernando County sheriff's investigators say they nabbed him selling stolen vintage sports cards on eBay. Robert Benson was already in jail facing eight stolen property counts from an April 30 arrest. Now he's looking at seven more after the sheriff's office recovered a Bart Starr … [Read more...]
Rare Football Cards Top MLI’s Big Game Auction
Dozens of the most important football cards ever issued were sold over the weekend in Memory Lane's first-ever all-football event. … [Read more...]
