1972 Topps football prices on the decline ?

edmundfitzgerald

Nice copies used to sell easily over $300.00


How is the market for 72 Topps PSA football compared to a few years back ?

Mickey71

The pop #'s on 1972 football are really high....even in some 9's and 10's. I looked at a raw set that clearly had some cards that would grade 10's , but the price was just too high. There are some 10's in the high #'s that aren't even worth $100. Way overrated set. Just too much high grade stuff out there.

ClockworkAngel

<< <i>The pop #'s on 1972 football are really high....even in some 9's and 10's. I looked at a raw set that clearly had some cards that would grade 10's , but the price was just too high. There are some 10's in the high #'s that aren't even worth $100. Way overrated set. Just too much high grade stuff out there. >>



Except for Roger Staubach! 28 9's of 1800. On my Bucket List

I think it's the best set of the 1970's because it's loaded with rookies. Staubach, Plunkett, Riggins, Manning, Joiner...defensive guys LC Greenwood, Alzado, Hendricks. With the exception of maybe 1975, might be the best set of the decade for rookies

FavreFan1971

<< <i>The pop #'s on 1972 football are really high....even in some 9's and 10's. I looked at a raw set that clearly had some cards that would grade 10's , but the price was just too high. There are some 10's in the high #'s that aren't even worth $100. Way overrated set. Just too much high grade stuff out there. >>



Way overrated? Are you kidding? It has the most HOF cards of any set Topps made. And I am not talking just rookies either. By far the best set Topps made in the 70's and in my opinion their best effort of all time. I count 40 base cards of Hall of Famers in this set.

JOHN RIGGINS Rookie
CARL ELLER
WILLIE LANIER
LEM BARNEY
FLOYD LITTLE
HERB ADDERLEY
LEROY KELLY
KEN HOUSTON
BOB GRIESE
JIM OTTO
TED HENDRICKS Rookie
JOE NAMATH
RON YARY Rookie
BOB HAYES
GAYLE SAYERS Last card
DAVE ROBINSON
LARRY CSONKA
TERRY BRADSHAW
EMMITT THOMAS Rookie
OJ
JOHNNY UNITAS
DICK BUTKUS
BOBBY BELL
MERLIN OLSEN
GENE UPSHAW Rookie
ROGER STAUBACH
LARRY WILSON
DEACON JONES
FRAN TARKENTON
JOE GREENE
GEORGE BLANDA
LARRY LITTLE Rookie
CHARLIE JOINER Rookie
LEN DAWSON
LANCE ALWORTH
ALAN PAGE
RAYFIELD WRIGHT Rookie
JIM JOHNSON
CHARLEY TAYLOR
DICK LEBEAU


Notable Rookies
ARCHIE MANNING
JIM PLUNKETT
L.C.GREENWOOD
LYLE ALZADO
STEVE SPURRIER

To top it off there is a Fair Hooker and Tom Beer card in the set. That alone should make it the bet set ever.

As for the what the OP said, yes prices are going down on the 72's. The PSA 8's commons have plummeted from $10-$15 each to $3-7 each. Besides the HOF Rookies the set in PSA 9 is attainable due to the recent surge in pops over the past 24-36 months. I put PSA 8 set together from 2004-2005 and sold it in 2006 for $5300 or so. I sold at the right time. Though I am putting the set back together again but much much cheaper.

Mickey71

Overrrated.....wrong use of words. What I meant was the pricing. Some folks think the set is worth a ton because of the high numbers. The set is loaded with big names. And yes the Staubach is a big boy card....the set I looked at the Staubach was like EX-MT.

FavreFan1971

Gotcha, yes many people overvalue this set. The high numbers are not as scarce as most think. There are a load out there at Fritsch's unopened so that bubble will burst soon and the high series will drop like an anchor.

Aric

<< <i>Gotcha, yes many people overvalue this set. The high numbers are not as scarce as most think. There are a load out there at Fritsch's unopened so that bubble will burst soon and the high series will drop like an anchor. >>



Same thing I was going to post. I read long ago that it's not that the 3rd series was printed less. It just didn't sell because it was released late and Fritsch bought all of the surplus from Topps and is still sitting on them.

heritage

Just a classic 70's set, I will put this set together someday soon I hope.
I want to rap up some sets first.

corncobb

This can be true of virtually any Seventies Set. TPGing population reports have always been misleading and caused unrealistic prices and precieved "Rarity"

While it may be true that with the Quality control that Card makers had at the time there may be some nortoriously difficult cards from the decade, None are really that rare.

TPGing brang with it a landslide of people who's only involvment in the hobby is Money and profit. Together, early on, they drove up prices to rediculous levels based on the silly population reports of these TPGers and created a misleading sense of rarity. No decline as the set was never really worth the inflated prices caused by the before mentioned.

Hopefully when the the bubble bursts on the unrealistic hype of of TPGing, we can get back to being able to obtain our favorite cards from our childhood at a much more reasonable cost.

With that being said we can now focus on the CARDS! And reguardless of Price, The 1972 Topps Football set is KING! My all-time Childhood favorite! From the landmark Playoff, Leader and Pro Action cards to the imfamous "3rd Series" (Which I agree are not as rare as the hobby once thought). From the Bold colors and the mix of horizontial and virtical cards to the quirky cartoon trivias on the backs the 72 Set laid the groundwork for what a Football card set should be. Of coarse the timing of all the HOF rookies and Star cards is also the stuff of legends adds to the set's legendary status. And the cherry on top? It features the rookie card of my boyhood hero and the greatest football player Ive ever seen take command of a football field.......... Roger Staubach, They just don't make em like that anymore.

I believe that one day God woke up and said....... Today I think I'll chisel and create a quarterback, and thus Roger the Dodger was created.

Ive spent thousands on tracking down high grade 72 for my set over the last 35 years, So its not about the money to me. I believe it was in the mid eighties that I purchased a complete 351 card set from Larry Fritsch. I remember telling him that Im not beyond paying top dollar, but I won't accept anything other than top grade centered cards. Thus I gave him $2,200 for that set and boy did he deliver. Here are some of those cards that I eventually had graded.





Like all my sets the 1972 Topps Football set regardless of the labels and price guides will always be priceless. Not for what it might be worth, but simply because of what it is.

Cakes

Corn,

Very cool story thank you for taking the time to write it up.

heritage

corncob, I will say those are some sweet cards you have.
I think the 72 FB is the best set around. I will build is soon.

corncobb

Thanks Guys,


And Yet some more of my favorites from the greatest Football set.

jay0791

Hey Corncobb those 72's are spectacular !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a centering freak and yours are about as good as it gets.

I love this set abd just really starting it.
Picked up a Yary AP 9 just last week.

corncobb

Jay

Thanks for the kind words and Yes I am an OCD centering freak as well.

You can never go wrong with the 72 Set. How far along are you?


And now more yet from the legendary set!

PowderedH2O

I am putting together a complete Topps football run in raw. This set is a challenge, but not the low numbers. I am amazed at how cheap they are. I have picked up nice Ex Mt hofers of guys like Unitas, Sayers, and OJ for cheaper than I ever expected. I feel like the low numbers do not get the love they deserve. Of course, since I am a school teacher, cheap is all I can afford, so I love it.

shouldabeena10

I can't answer this question, because I don't have a current PSA membership to see the pop numbers ... but how does the 1972 set stack up against the other tuff sets of the 70's, like 1971 and 1974 ... as far as the % of PSA 8's, 9's and 10's that have been graded (out of the total number of cards graded)?

PS - Corn ... Love those scans!

Mike

FavreFan1971

Mike,

You don't need to be a member to look at the Pop Reports anymore. Have fun!!!