kristopher | November 14, 2009
Player: Dick Butkus Card: 1966 Philadelphia Football Card #31 Team/Position: Chicago Bears / The Middle Linebacker Cost: $45.00 Dick Butkus was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979 and is without a doubt, the greatest linebacker to ever put on a pair of shoulder pads. Butkus was, and always will be, the meanest sunnabitch [...]
kristopher | November 5, 2009
Player: George Blanda Card: 1954 Bowman Card #23 Team/Position: Chicago, Houston, Oakland / Quarterback & Kicker Cost: $35 The NFL has taken it upon itself to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the AFL in 2009 with AFL rivalry games featuring some of the gaudiest jerseys known to man. I’s clear that Joe Namath reigns supreme as [...]
kristopher | November 3, 2009
Player: Mike Singletary Card: 1983 Topps Card #38 Team/Position: Oakland Raiders / Tackle Cost: Almost Free! I ended up grabbing this Singletary in an ’83 Bears lot; so it came cheap. It’s brutally off-center and it’s pretty freakin’ ugly to boot. Something definitely happened to Topps’ design team when the clock struck 1980. Green and Purple [...]
kristopher | October 29, 2009
Player: Gale Sayers Card: 1966 Philadelphia Card #38 Team/Position: Chicago Bears / Halfback Cost: About 90 Bucks Born in Wichita and educated at KU, the Kansas Comet was the only fitting nickname for a player of Sayers’ speed and fluidity. For all of Gale Sayers’ greatness, his Achilles heel ended up being his knees. In this [...]
