May 17th, 2009 |
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Even a non-Redskins fan could spent a couple of hours poking around the Redskins Football Card Museum. My favorite “room” in the museum is the author’s collection of oddball cards, posters, and lids. Many of the items there were new to me, such as the 1972 Gatorade lids pictured here.
The author also keeps a blog, where he chronicles his progress on his collection and the web site. I particularly enjoyed his entry on the technology he used for the site. I intend to come back to it for ideas for my sites!
February 12th, 2009 |
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Remember those old electric football games, where you lined up all your players, turned on the machine, and watched them all vibrate to the side of the field? Well, people collect those, too. C_A_Panther Electric Football has a history of electric football, descriptions of the different types of players (Bigmen, Hoglegs, Chicken Legs–oh my!), and lots of colorful pictures. One of my favorite pages is the Game of the Week, a feature that apparently lasted just one week. The author evidently had better luck getting his players to move downfield than I did.
The picture is the Bears vs. the Packers–but are they Bigmen or Hoglegs? Sayers scores!
December 31st, 2008 |
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The Helmet Project has hundreds of beautiful illustrations of professional and college football helmets past and present. It includes helmets of teams from defunct professional leagues such as the XFL, USFL, WFL, and WALF. It also includes college helmets down through NCAA Division 3 and NAIA.
Shown here are most of the helmets the Denver Broncos have used since their first season in 1960. Personally, I like the old cartoonish figures more than the current angry horse head, but I suppose cartoon figures aren’t intimidating enough these days.
Not many football cards show the players wearing their helmets, since the facemasks cover the players’ faces. Frank Emanuel’s 1968 Topps card, shown here, is one exception, and as you can see, it turned out badly. Wise photographers who wanted helmets in the pictures asked the players to hold them.
Because Topps did not have the rights to reproduce team logos on its cards, in the 70′s the company airbrushed the logos off the helmets. This made for some ugly cards, this 1972 Topps Ken Willard in Action card being one example. Topps also realized that they could use airbrushing when a player was traded, to change his uniform from one color to another without having to take another picture. This made for some very ugly cards, but that’s a topic for another day.
To see all those missing helmet logos, do check out The Helmet Project!
December 23rd, 2008 |
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The Fleer Sticker Project features pictures and descriptions of the baseball and football stickers Fleer has printed since 1960. Some of the stickers varied only slightly from year to year, and the site describes how to distinguish between the different years. Also included are lots of pictures of old sports programs, magazines, catalogs, cards, bottle caps, pop cans, and so on. You pretty much just have to go browse around.
November 29th, 2008 |
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