1976 Fleer Football NFL Team Action Sticker Cards

Its a card….no, its a sticker….wait, its both!What is it? Its a 1976 Fleer Football NFL Team Action Sticker Card!In 1976 Fleer returned to producing cards picturing Pro Football players after a 13 year absence, as their last Football card set fea…

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There is one more Topps Football set that contains team logos that I wanted to cover before I get back to reviewing more Fleer Football sets - the 1969 Topps Football Mini Card / Stamp Albums:The albums and mini cards / stamps were inserts in packs of …

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My previous post on the Colts 1958 World Championship showcased a card from a great subset from the 1959 Topps Football set - the team pennant cards:I really like this subset as it does a nice job of highlighting the team’s logo in the form of a pennan…

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of The Greatest Game Ever Played.The ESPN documentary which aired a few weeks ago celebrated the 50th anniversary of the game, but did so a few weeks early, so I wanted to go back to the 1959 Topps Football set to show …

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One thing I noticed when looking at the 1966 NFL program I reviewed in the last post was the NFL logo on the front of the cover:The NFL shield on the cover is very different from the standard NFL logo that was being used at the time:Paul Lukas from Uni…

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This is my favorite Coca-Cola ad of all time:The ad is from the November 20, 1966 Cleveland Browns program where they faced off against the Redskins:I like they way the ad ties in the NFL logo bottle caps into a map showing where all the NFL teams were…

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I just received a copy of The Dallas Cowboys Complete Football Card Guide from Fleer Sticker Project contributor Steve Liskey.Steve runs the website TheCowboysGuide.com which is a great resource for Cowboys fans with tons of information on the Cowboys …

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After watching ESPN’s presentation of The Greatest Game Ever Played last night, I visited the Sports Illustrated Vault to see what the immediate reaction to the game was to get a sense of what people thought about the game immediately after it was play…

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I can’t believe its been a year to the day since I started off the blog with a post on the 1960 Fleer Baseball Decals back on December 12 last year:If you would have told me before I started this venture last year that I’d do 145 posts over the course …

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Having just completed the look at the various NFL card and sticker sets issued by Sunbeam Bread in the mid 70’s, I started thinking back to those days when I was a kid going grocery shopping with my mom:Check out all the Baseball Cards and Wacky Packag…

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Its just like the 1970’s all over again! Topps has just released Wacky Packages Flashback Series 2 which is now hitting the shelves in Targets and Walmarts across the country.Wacky Packages were the first card / sticker set I ever collected, so they h…

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In addition to the NFL Stand-Up Football cards, Sunbeam Bread offered a second football set inside their bread products in 1976: a set of NFL team pennant stickers.We can confirm that these stickers are from 1976 as the stickers had information on the …

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In 1976, Sunbeam Bread followed up their 1975 Cloth Patch set with a set of NFL Stand-Up Football cards which were included in specially marked loaves of bread.The helmet portion of the card could be popped out and the card would be folded in the mid…

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Once again its time to put together my wish list after going through the Christmas catalogs. I haven’t been going through the catalogs that came in the mail though, I’ve been putting together my wishlist after reading WishbookWeb’s treasure trove of v…

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In addition to the 1972 - 1976 Fleer NFL Football Cloth Patches, there was another set of cloth patches issued in 1975 which looked almost identical to the Fleer patches, but were smaller in size, and only had one patch per sticker instead of 2.The pat…

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I just came across this preview clip for an upcoming ESPN Film entitled The Greatest Game Ever Played, which is described in the the news release as “an innovative special presentation of the 1958 game played between the Baltimore Colts and New York Gi…

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After hearing about the impact that the blown call at the end of the Chargers v. Steelers game had on bettors based on how it effected “the line”, I was reminded of a novelty song that was released back in 1979 called “The Football Card”.

The song wa…

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I saw Gellman’s idea for The Blog Bat Around at Sports Card Uncensored, and the topic got me thinking about questions that I sometimes wrestle with and never seem to be able to completely answer.
The question: Who Are You?

Or more speci…

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We wrap up the review of the 1972 - 1976 Fleer NFL Football Cloth Patches with a look at the patches that Fleer produced for the NFL logo, the AFC & NFC Conference Champions, and the Super Bowl winners.1972The first issue in 1972 has the NFL Logo o…

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We finally come to the last team in our review of the 1972 - 1976 Fleer NFL Football Cloth Patches - the Washington Redskins.The Washington Redskins have 4 different Fleer Cloth Patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar face…

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the NFL as one of two expansion teams for the 1976 season just in time to appear on Fleer’s final Cloth Patch set.Here are the Buccaneers’ 1976 Fleer Cloth Helmet Patch (top) and the Hi-Gloss Helmet Sticker (bottom):Both…

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The Seattle Seahawks joined the NFL as one of two expansion teams for the 1976 season, and were therefore able to appear on Fleer’s final Cloth Patch set.Here are the Seahawks’ 1976 Fleer Cloth Helmet Patch (top) and the Hi-Gloss Helmet Sticker (bottom…

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The San Francisco 49ers have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar facemask variation was produced in 1972 & 1973 as seen on the top. The helmet changed to a double bar facemask in 1974 as sho…

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The San Diego Chargers have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar facemask variation with the 60’s - early 70’s white helmet was produced in 1972 & 1973 and is shown on the top. The helmet cha…

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The St. Louis Cardinals have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar facemask variation from 1972 & 1973 is on the top. The double bar version from 1974 is on the middle left, and the 1975 versi…

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have a variation in the helmet patch between 1972 and 1973 thanks to the lettering in the team name. As we saw when we looked at the Vikings logo, the Rams helmet, and the Packers helmet, the Steelers made a change in the letter…

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In the early years of the AFL, teams were responsible for designing their own game programs which resulted in many unique covers which often used art work showing the home team’s mascot taking on the opposition’s mascot. These program covers are much …

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How’s this for timing. The night the Philadelphia Phillies win their first World Series in 28 years, I’ve got the Philadelphia Eagles next on the list of teams for the Fleer NFL Cloth Patch Sticker review. Congratulations to the Phillies on their Wor…

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The Oakland Raiders have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar facemask variation from 1972 & 1973 is on the top. The double bar version from 1974 is on the middle left, and the 1975 version w…

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The New York Jets have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar facemask variation from 1972 & 1973 is on the top. The double bar version from 1974 is on the middle left, and the 1975 version w…

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The New York Giants have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. Unlike most of the teams we’re reviewing, the Giants helmet underwent a few changes during this time period which are reflected in changes seen in t…

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The New Orleans Saints have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar variation from 1972 & 1973 is on the top. The double bar version from 1974 is on the middle left, and the 1975 version with th…

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The New England Patriots have 4 different Fleer cloth patch helmet variations and 1 Hi-Gloss helmet sticker. The single bar variation from 1972 & 1973 is on the top. The double bar version from 1974 is on the middle left, and the 1975 version with …

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The Minnesota Vikings have a a variation in the helmet patch between 1972 and 1973 thanks to the Miami Dolphins which share the patch with the Vikings. As we saw when we looked at the Dolphins helmet and logo patches, they made a change in the letteri…

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Its time to put the cloth patches aside for a moment to climb in the Way-Back machine to check out the latest fall fashions for the 1960 NFL season:I’d like to find a nice example of the Thermos Stadium kit pictured in the lower right hand corner with …

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