American Football Memorabilia and Collectibles
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...
Before the NFL: Sourdough Sam’s Swagger
By Steven Faulk — . My dad played for San Jose State from 1946 to '49, and kept every program from all the games that he played in. That’s how I got into collecting vintage football programs. I played for the Spartans in the early '70s and kept my old programs, too. Even though the '70s programs are collectible now, I like the older ones even better. I've got Spartan programs from 1935 through the '90s. The 1939 and 1940 San Jose State programs are real prizes because SJS was one of Glenn S. "Pop"...
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...