Philadelphia Eagles

Last time we looked at my first football cards - four from 1964. I collected football cards in '67 (NFL only), '68, '71, and '72, with a smattering of  '69 and '73 cards which I probably got from my brother's duplicates. 

 

About 20 years ago I started completing Eagles' sets from 1964 to 1980, and 2 years ago I worked on completing the '66 NFL and '67 AFL sets. 

 

Anyhoo, as you can see on this blog's sidebar, I don't have many 1964 cards, but I do have all the Eagles.

 

In the '64 and '65 sets, every NFL team had a "play" card. These were gradually phased out to make room for the Falcons cards in 1966 and the Saints in 1967.

My First Football Cards

I started buying football cards in 1967. But up to 3 years before that I had four cards from the 1964 NFL set. I have no idea where they came from, because my brother and I were both busy collecting non-sports cards until 1967, and bought no baseball or football cards until that year. 

 

So here are my first-ever sports cards - in all their round-cornered glory.

The 1965 cards are very similar to this design, except that all the nameplates are black, whereas in the 1964 set the color varies by team (although many teams have red nameplates). In 1966 and 1967, each team has a specific color (the same for both years) and no other team used that color.