The 1960s was a notable decade for professional football. The success of the AFL, the first Super Bowl and television contracts and the beginning of the National Football League’s rise to the top of sports popularity in the United States. One less notable highlight of
In 1996 the Baltimore Ravens played their inaugural season a new franchise. Their previous nickname, logos and records all left behind in Cleveland as part of a lawsuit settlement with the city of Cleveland. The city claimed that the Browns, more specifically Art Modell had
Last week I mentioned how much I love the 19985 Topps football set. The cards look amazing and as I said in last week’s entry, they really hit my nostalgic sweet spot. Excitingly I was able to pick up a pack at a local card
The other day at the card show I came across a package of all 28 1976 Popsicle cards. Surprisingly I wasn’t really aware of these cards, but the seller had a couple of them for $15 dollars each. I talked him down to 10 bucks
I had a custom 3D Wood Helmet Order for a Central Connecticut State Blue Devils helmet from their mid to late 1990s era uniforms and log. It actually was tough to find the exact logo from that era, but the person who ordered them was
One of my favorite card sets is the 1985 Topps football set. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of cards of this set leftover from my youth. One reason is because it was just prior to me really getting into football. I was interested, but
Yesterday I covered the anniversary patches worn from 1951-1993. Today we will take a look at all the anniversary patches worn from 1994-present. Patches would become way more prevalent as the years went by, with one team or another sporting a patch on their jerseys.
As you may know the NFL is celebrating their 100th Anniversary this season and to mark the occasion they released their version of the NBC “The More You Know logo”. Really uninspired stuff. Forgetting all that for now, let’s take a look back to some
A week or two ago I mentioned how much I loved Action Packed cards. If you recall, these are the “3D” cards that released sets from 1989 to about 1996. One thing I failed to mention was that with the later sets Action Packed released
For a recent order of custom 3D wood helmets a customer requested a lineman’s mask for his three helmets. Normally for the original shell design I do a two-bar or single-bar mask. My 3D wood helmets are based on the standard 1970s and 1980s helmet