Super Bowl Memorabilia and Collectibles
Collecting Super Bowl Ticket Stubs
By Russ Havens — When it comes to collecting ticket stubs, one event stands out as king—the Super Bowl. Oh, there may be some swagger to a 1919 World Series stub, or a Chicago Bulls Game 6 from the 1998 NBA finals, but really: It all comes back to the Super Bowl. And when it comes to collecting Super Bowl stubs, there are two schools of thought: Does one collect Fulls or Stubs? One would be inclined to think that since Super Bowls generally sell out, full unused tickets would be next to impossible 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...