Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog » Clay Matthews Sr. http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog News, trivia, and musings of interest to vintage football card collectors Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Clay Matthews Sr. http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2010/01/08/clay-matthews-sr/ http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2010/01/08/clay-matthews-sr/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:06 +0000 nearmint http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/?p=2238 Clay Matthews Sr. 1955 49ers Team Issue PhotoA couple of weeks ago, when I wrote that I had added 1955 49ers Team Issue photos to the Vintage Football Card Gallery, I neglected to point out that Clay Matthews Sr. is in one of the photos. Clay Sr. is the father of Clay Matthews Jr., who played 19 years for the Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons, and of Bruce Matthews, the Hall of Fame lineman for the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Titans. He is also the grandfather of Clay Matthews III, the Packers rookie linebacker. Clay III had 10 sacks in 2009, a record for a Packers rookie.

Clay Sr. played offensive tackle and defensive end for the 49ers in 1950 and from 1953 to 1955. To my knowledge, he did not appear on any regular issue cards, and this is his only appearance on a team issue photo.

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