Vintage Football Cards
Highs and Lows of Sunday Football, in Cards
By Adam Carrier — I have been a football fanatic since I was very little. I can remember sitting next to my dad on Sundays when I was five or six years old and getting swept up in the emotion he showed, both the highs and the lows, as we watched our team, the Minnesota Vikings. I also remember looking through my older brother’s and my dad’s football cards, which they kept in old Velveeta cheese boxes. Around age eight or nine, I started to collect my own sports cards, and soon after my brother decided to...
Going Deep for Football Cards
By Maribeth Keane and Jessica Lewis — I collected football cards when I was a kid, back in the late ’60s, early ’70s. Then I set them in the closet for about 15 to 20 years and picked them up again in 1989. A friend of mine had a drugstore and he sold some of the newer football cards. He’d drag some of them out and give me a couple of packs to open, and I started to be curious about what I had in my closet, so I dug them out. I started going to card shows and card shops, trying to fill in some of the sets that I had started 20...