Finished! 1971 Kellogg's football

Galveston · May 22, 2003 8:11AM

1971 Kellogg's Football Set

Bring on the Kool-Aid man to help me celebrate. 1971 Kellogg's Football set is 100%. Took more than a year and a half tom complete and still have a few upgrades to reach goal of all 9's.....

cjlarsen15 · May 22, 2003 8:16AM

Let me be the first to say congrats man, nice job!!

Fuzz · May 22, 2003 8:20AM

Mick,
Congratulations Grande !!! That is a set that I have only played with because it is such a pain to even find poor condition cards. I have or have had all the other Kellogg's sets raw and many several times over but never the 71 FB. Am very passively collecting that set and the 70 FB and well as the 71 BB. Hope to some day work up the list. Excellent job.

thegemmintman · May 22, 2003 8:25AM

Kool Man! Kongratulationsl!

Stump · May 22, 2003 9:40AM

Mick

Great job on the completion.

Dave

tschaef · May 22, 2003 9:44AM

Mick -

Great job !! On a tough set.

Todd

Wayne8348 · May 22, 2003 10:50AM

Nice job Galveston!

Wayne

GATOR5 · May 22, 2003 10:55AM

Galveston,

Yahoo, what are you looking to knock off next.

LuxuryWines · May 22, 2003 10:58AM

Nice Job Mick! those 71 Sets are a bear !!

Galveston · May 22, 2003 11:12PM

As for what's next, I'm still working on my Green Bay Packer team sets. I'm putting together PSA mid-grade sets for all of Lombardi's championship years: 1961 & 1962 Topps, 1965 thru 1967 Philly. I'm about 2/3rd finished, 67's seem to be the toughest of all.
I've got to continue to upgrade the four sets I have on the Registry. Most of my effort right now is on 1971 Kellogg's baseball. I'm working on a master set (with the variations) even though PSA doesn't have a separate listing for a master set on the Registry. I may ask them to add one.
I also have a bunch of 1973 & 1975 Kelloggs at PSA right now. I haven't decided if I'll attempt to join the Registry in these sets or sell the cards so I'll have more money for 1971 Kelloggs cards.

P.S. My Kingdom for a 1971 Kellogg's Billy Grabarkowitz in PSA 9.

AlanAllen · May 22, 2003 11:56PM

Galveston,
Grats on the tough set. One question: You're finding '67 Philly to be tougher than '62 Topps?

Joe

Galveston · May 23, 2003 7:36AM

I haven't had any trouble finding 62 Topps. They aren't cheap but I've been pretty content with PSA 6's and 7's in that year. For 1967, I haven't seen hardly any on e-bay in any condition. I finally bought some raw cards and have them at PSA right now. They are probably 5's and 6's. I'll upgrade later as they become available....

AlanAllen · May 23, 2003 8:20AM

Interesting. I always thought the Philly sets were all relatively easy, and the '62 Topps was one of the toughest of the 60's. The pop report does not bear me out though, '67 Philly looks to be incredibly tough, with an average of 3.75 cards graded 8 or better across the set. '62 Topps has an average of 10.80, and even '65 Topps has 4.70. Looking at the registry, one guy has managed a 50% set at 8.26, but the leader's set is 98.48% with only a 5.72 GPA. Man, that's quite an underrated set.

Joe

SKINSFAN · May 23, 2003 9:16AM

it is a real tough set allan. i know i am the guy at 50%. always looking for 66 topps/67 philly/68 topps football psa 9. and any 8 i need check my sets. also any 55 aa,s psa 9 . on another note look at the 66 topps set it is the hardest i think from the 60,s most dealers i know stoped sending them in because 8,s are so hard. nines are murder.

Virtualizard · May 23, 2003 9:47AM

Congratulations.

AlanAllen · May 23, 2003 10:46AM

Skinsfan, nice set bro. You have about one out of every seven NM-MT or better ever graded in that set. I know the '66s are touch with the woodgrain borders, but there is an average of more than 10 8's or better throughout the set.

Joe

Finished! 1971 Kellogg's football

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