greatest football cards of all-time

tennesseebanker

With the football season coming up i thought this would be a good topic, I see a lot of discussion about the greatest baseball of all-time but very rarely see anything like that for football or the other sports. i think price should be a consideration for this but not the sole determing factor. Here are some of mine in no particular order....................


1957 johnny unitas
1958 jim brown
1955 four horsemen
1965 joe namath
1952 bowman frank gifford
1952 bowman norm van brocklin
1972 topps namath in action
1976 walter payton
1952 bowman tom landry
1955 topps jim thorpe

mudflap02

I'm no football guy by any stretch of the imagination, but if I could own any one football card it would be the 1935 National Chicle Knute Rockne.

And the 55 AA John Kimbrough - gotta love the Ags!

tennesseebanker

For the sheer price the nagurski would be a good one, But I have been collecting football cards for some time and have never seen one in person. I really have no desire to have one of except of course for the price.

DCDSports

What about the 1894 Mayo Anonymous card?

achtey

I think the 1957 Bart Starr rc has to be considered too. He was one of the great QBs of the time.
I also think the 1976 Walter Payton should be in the mix too.

Josh

carew4me

1935 NC Nagurski

Southsider

I would sell any and all cards in my collection for a 1935 National Chicle Nagurski.

MonstersOTG

Some of my favorites in no order:

1933 Sport Kings Red Grange
1933 Sport Kings Knute Rockne
1950 Bowman Y. A. Tittle
1965 Topps Joe Namath


Some of my favorite football sets:

1948 Bowman
1951 Bowman
1953 Bowman
1954 Bowman
1963 Topps
1965 Topps
1967 Topps

I like 'em all!
Paul.

goodriddance189

1935 NC
1952 Bowman Large
1955 TAA

AlanAllen

My top 20:

1894 Mayo John Dunlap (anonymous)
1933 Sport Kings Thorpe
1933 Sport Kings Grange
1935 National Chicle Rockne
1935 National Chicle Nagurski
1948 Leaf Baugh
1950 Bowman Graham
1952 Bowman Large Lansford
1955 Topps Four Horsemen
1957 Topps Unitas
1957 Topps Starr
1958 Topps Brown
1962 Topps Ditka
1965 Topps Namath
1976 Topps Payton
1981 Topps Montana
1984 Topps Elway
1984 Topps Marino
1986 Topps Rice
1989 Score Sanders

Joe

envoy98

What about 99 Molten Metal Cade McNown? Or 00 Skybox Premium Ron Dayne...?

Only kidding of course!

Certainly the Score Supplemental Emmitt, Score Barry Sanders, Aikman, Deion cards are great.
OJ Rookie, 54? Otto Graham... The Chicle Nagurski has to be among the top. I like the Unitas RC as well as Tarkenton & Namath as some of the all time greatest cards.

The 84 Elway and Marino RC's are great...so is 86T Rice...

I don't know a whole lot about real vintage FB other than the big names and their rc's. I am sure there are a lot of other good ones though.

lawnmowerman

What's gotten into to you tonight Barry? You're a posting machine!

vintagechris

I like the 1955 Bowman George Blanda because the first card I ever had of Blanda was a 1976 and to see how he got older was amazing to me as a kid.

11235813

I think you've gotta stick the 1955 Topps AA Jim Thorpe card in there somewhere, along with the 55 Topps AA Rockne and Four Horseman cards....

JasP24

JeremyDie1

I agree with all the above. I personally would love a Sid Luckman high grade Leaf rookie.

MeteoriteGuy

shagrotn77

I don't know why, but I've always thought that the '56 Topps Lenny Moore rookie was an awesome looking card.

Blackborder

1975 Merlin Olsen. His last, and best, card. 14 consecutive years in the Pro Bowl.