1968 Ron Santo

In 1968 Topps was finally the only game in town for football cards. Topps manufactured cards of both the AFL and NFL teams. Philadelphia Gum was now out of the picture after 4 years of the same basic design.

1967 Ron Santo

Continuing this theme until the bitter end. Here is the 1967 Topps football version of Ron Santo. 

In 1967 Philadelphia added a yellow border and moved the NFL logo into the field. Again if they had great photography to make up for the lacking card design, but they had neither. I used a more recent logo for this one as the older logo was last used by Topps in 1965.

1960 Topps Art Donovan

Art "Fatso" Donovan - June 5, 1925-August 4 ,2013

Once again sad news has caused me to interrupt my Ron Santo football card theme and make a card of a legendary player who has passed away.  Although Donovan had cards from 1956-59 and in 1961 for some reason he was omitted from the 1960 set. 

 Art Donovan was a Hall of Fame tackle both offensive and defensive.  More importantly he was a larger than life personality.  He was a favorite on late night television.  He would tell stories of old school football that would have the likes of Letterman and even Johnny Carson in stitches.  He will be missed.

Here is just a sample of some of his entertaining interviews you can find on You Tube:

1966 Ron Santo

In 1966 Topps again "shared" its football card design with its hockey set from the same year. It also "borrowed" quite a bit from the 1955 Bowman design. Never-the-less it made for a nice looking card.

Again a bland design for Philadelphia football cards in 1966. Were they even trying? I could understand the lackluster design, if they were blowing us away with awesome photography. But Philadelphia football cards were mostly head and shoulder pictures. Once again I substituted the Cubs logo for NFL logo.

1965 Ron Santo

In 1965 Topps adopted the "Tall-Boy" style for their football cards. This was nearly identical to the 1964-65 Topps hockey cards. The only real difference was that the team name was on the hockey card while the team city was on the football cards.

For their part Philadelphia added the NFL logo to their cards. I took the liberty of changing the league logo to a team logo.