Wax pack question 72s fb

handyman · August 31, 2012 7:31PM

1972 Football pack
Ok this pack is labled as a 1st series pack. It is also labled as having Gale Sayers on the front. Im ok with this.
But on the back of the pack it has #139 Super Bowl Roger Staubach!! Great 2 stars!.
But the sayers is from the 1st series and the Staubach is from the 2nd series.
Is this pack legit???????
I was under the impression that they never had mix series packs for football 72s?

BBCE · August 31, 2012 11:25PM

Thanks for pointing this out to me!

I have purchased the pack off ebay to have sent to me. You are correct, I have never seen a 1972 Topps football pack with multiple series in it. I would like to get this pack in my hands so I can take a look.
I will let you know the outcome once I get it. Since you probably cant see the Sayers on top in the holder, I will have to crack it out to make sure of it. Whatever happens it will get corrected.
Thanks again! Steve

edmundfitzgerald · September 1, 2012 12:53AM

I have opened 1st, 2nd, and 3rd series wax boxes from that year and have never experienced that before.
I would guess the pack is not legit, but I'm not one who has opened hundreds of boxes to make a more accurate opinion.

handyman · September 1, 2012 4:39AM

Wow. Didnt expect that.
Thanks Steve. #1 in this area for sure!!

ssollars · September 1, 2012 10:36AM

I noticed that pack a few weeks back when I was looking to buy a couple of '72 packs to rip! Wasn't looking for series 1 but I too thought it curious about the Super Bowl card on the back of this one.

Scott

handyman · September 1, 2012 10:49AM

Next time bring it to our attention. Steve took care of it what looks like right when he got out of bed before he brushed his teeth.
Well done on his part!!!

ssollars · September 1, 2012 3:15PM

It did cross my mind to post about it here, but I had forgot about it until I saw this post.

NCDOLFAN · September 1, 2012 9:03PM

Opened lots of packs and boxes over the years and never had mixed series cards in one pack. Bogus.

flash2 · September 1, 2012 11:25PM

opened a basketball box(bbce) a couple of years back,about 24 of the packs were half bkb and half hockey.box was not tampered with as i pulled jabbar,bobby clarke,etc. so mistakes can happen.

BBCE · September 12, 2012 4:39AM

Hello!
I finally got to the bottom of this pack. Topps never issued 1972 Topps football in a "mixed" series pack. Topps made them in 3 series and none of the series were ever mixed (at least as far as I have ever seen)!
So when I was alerted to this pack, I quickly bought it. My intention was to figure out the mistake I possibly made, or whatever mistake was made on the encapsulation of this pack.

The pack arrived at the office today and I quickly cracked it out of the PSA holder. I had a pretty good idea what the problem was, but wanted to see for myself. The pack DOES NOT have Gale Sayers showing on top. This pack is just
a regular series 2 pack with common players showing on both sides. The pack is 100% original and authentic, not bogus. The person who slabbed the pack just mixed it up with another pack on the invoice (pretty easy to make the mixup, since it would have been tough for someone to determine that Gale Sayers was on top!). I guess that means there is probably another 1972 Topps football pack out there marked Series 2, but actually is a series 1 pack with Gale Sayers on top!

Thanks! Steve Hart