sequential #'d cards in same pack

**aharner55** · 08-18-2008, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by ExeterJay View Post

I didnt read this before my post. Its amazing how young collectors, and even quite a few of the older collectors have no idea who any of the players that forged the leager are. Its as if the league started with Walter Payton, and anything before that didnt matter. If you ask any young Baseball card collector if they know about Ruth, Cobb, Gherig they all would. If you ask a young Football card collector who Baugh, Nagurski or Grange are, most of them have no idea. Pre 1960 Football autographs is one of my hobbies, so I know a little more than the average collector probaby should, but I still think its important for people to know the names of the players who are responsible for the game we love today.

As a Browns fan and not a football historian (yet), I didn't know who this guy was so he obviously doesn't get talked about too much nowadays.

**Ryo1549** · 08-18-2008, 04:40 PM

Topps is notorious for doing that. Except I've seen topps do it with 1/1s. I remember once in a baseball a guy got a pack of bowman chrome and it had 2 superfractors in it. Also a kid on the beckett boards got a pack of sterling and it had 2 red 1/1s refractor.

**ExeterJay** · 08-19-2008, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by intelliracer View Post

As a Browns fan and not a football historian (yet), I didn't know who this guy was so he obviously doesn't get talked about too much nowadays.

That was my point, with the exception of a select few players, the history of the game of football has been lost in todays game of superstars and glamor. Nobody talks about or compares players from the early days of Football with the current stars of today, the way Baseball fans compare their respective past and present players. I just think its a shame. I remember back in 1998 when Sports Illustrated picked Don Hutson as the greatest Football player of all time and everyone said "who?".