New in the Gallery: 1975 Wonder Bread Cards
January 25th, 2010 | Published in New in the Gallery | 1 Comment
Today I added 1975 Wonder Bread cards to the Vintage Football Card Gallery. The cards are homely, but they’re cheap: you can find most of them on eBay for a dollar or two.
There are only twenty-four cards in the set, so not all teams are represented. There are no Bills, Falcons, Cardinals, Colts, Oilers, or Saints in the set. That seems odd, unless they didn’t sell Wonder Bread in those teams’ cities. Some cards have red borders and some have blue. At first I assumed that red represented one conference and blue represented the other, but that turned out not to be the case. As far as I can tell, the border color is random.
The backs of the cards contain the players’ stats and short quizzes. One question I saw was “What would happen if after a kickoff the ball deflates in flight?” Do you suppose that’s ever happened? Well if it did, the referee would get a new ball and it would be re-kicked, according to John Mendenhall’s card.
The card backs also say that Topps printed the cards. Like the regular 1975 Topps cards, the Wonder Bread cards have no team logos on them, and the two helmets that appear in the images are airbrushed. The cards don’t even have the teams’ cities on them. It’s not much of a set, I’m afraid, though I imagine that player and team collectors would be interested in individual cards. The little quizzes are the best part!
January 31st, 2010 at 4:07 pm (#)
These aren’t as easy to find as the ‘76, which apparently came out in some large quantity not long after they were issued.
The ’75s are out there in quantity too, but not quite as many floating around.
The ‘74 set is actually hard to find in high grade from my experience. Most of the cards have bread stains on them. Interesting that the ‘74 design is almost a carbon copy of ‘71 Topps.