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Forgive me for cheating at this one moment ... I created it 40+ years ago!

Of course, this was pre-computer ... I employed scissors, glue, colored pencils, regular pencil, white construction paper or cardboard and Sports Illustrated mags to clip from.  The card front was inspired by the Topps 1964 baseball design, while the back was a rip-off of the Topps 1968 football design (but without the big cartoon).  Here's the full set in my dresser drawer:

1  Tommy Nobis  Falcons

2  Joe Namath  Jets

3  Roger Stauback  Cowboys

4  Ken Stabler  Raiders

5  Archie Manning  Saints

6  Tom Dempsey  Rams

7  Terry Bradshaw  Steelers

8  Larry Csonka  Giants

I also found a clipped photo of Brian Sipe, but I never made a card from it ... we'll call that a proof, ha-ha.

Well done! Excellent card; much better than anything printed to today.

Thanks for sharing.

Add it to the database!

Nice! Was the write-up from another source or your own research?

Is it me or is the back so much easier to read than cards from the past 30 years?

The write-up was my own creation, but I had sources ... mostly from the football cards I collected in the 1970s.  Other sources could have been pro football paperbacks from the 70s, as well as my Punt, Pass & Kick library.  However, Bradshaw's rushing yards per carry stats must have been from my Street & Smith Pro Football yearbooks, which I collected from1975 thru 1981 ... which appear to be lost, I can't find them.

I forgot about two additional old-school tools:  a ruler and an eraser.