{"id":574,"date":"2023-06-27T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:09:38","slug":"1970s-nfl-stars-with-something-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/1970s-nfl-stars-with-something-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"1970s NFL stars with something extra"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going through some boxes in storage and happened upon a collection of football cards and stickers from the 1970s. I pulled out these stickers that I hadn’t looked through in ages, and had forgotten that wherever or whenever I got them – in a trade with some other kid, I believe – that a bunch of them had been drawn on, with goofy mustaches and beards added to the players.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what year these are from, and I don’t know if the original stickers would be valuable or not, but certainly the inked-up versions I have here have lost any value from a sports memorabilia perspective … but they’re pretty humorous as little art works.<\/p>\n

Above, from left, I have: Tommy Mason of the Washington Redskins with a fu-manchu style mustache; Pete Breathard from the St. Louis Cardinals with a handlebar mustache; and Jim Lynch from the Kansas City Chiefs with an interesting half-mustache-and-beard combo.<\/p>\n

Below I’ve got some big name stars, all messed up courtesy of some kid with a ballpoint pen: Clockwise, from top left: Bart Starr from the Green Bay Packers, O.J. Simpson from the Buffalo Bills, Billy Kilmer from the Washington Redskins, and Johnny Unitas from the Baltimore Colts. <\/p>\n

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Bart Starr, OJ Simpson, Johnny Unitas and Billy Kilmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you recognize these NFL stickers and can fill me in on the year or company (Topps? Or other?), please share your info in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going through some boxes in storage and happened upon a collection of football cards and stickers from the 1970s. I pulled out these stickers that I hadn’t looked through in ages, and had forgotten that wherever or whenever I got them – in a trade with some other kid, I believe – that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[57,133,154,415,543,563],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collecting","category-sports-cards","tag-1970s","tag-bart-starr","tag-billy-kilmer","tag-johnny-unitas","tag-nfl","tag-oj-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}