Are You Ready for Some More Playoff Football?
January 16th, 2011 by slangon
After the first half of the second weekend of foosball playoffs, the Steeler have defeated the Ravens and Green Bay has defeated Atlanta. It seems Atlanta was not ready for some football after all. Today there are 2 more playoff games, the Seahawks at the Bears and the Jets at the Patriots. Personally, I’m actually a little intrigued by the Seattle / Chicago game just because I think it would be kind of awesome if it turned out that a team with a losing record ended up winning the Super Bowl, but around these parts, the Jets game is really what matters. I know I’m not really a Jets fan, but I know enough Jets fans that I’m pulling for them. Plus, who the hell really likes Tom Brady?
Anyway, there’s still a few hours before kick off, so in the mean time, here’s a football card that I got.
1965 Philadelphia #121 Lou Slaby
If this 1965 Philadelphia card looks familiar to some of you, well it should. Once again, Topps dug deep into the archives of other companies to produce another retro themed release. This years Topps Magic Football offering is a direct rip-off homage to Philadelphia Gum’s 1965 set. Really the only difference is that Topps place the team logo where the NFL logo sits on this card. Apparently, back in the mid 60’s when Philadelphia Gum was making football cards, they had exclusive rights to the NFL players, whereas Topps had rights to the AFL players. Back then both leagues were separate entities. In 1966, they agreed to merge, which they finally did in 1970. Before that the Super Bowl was known as the World Championship Game.
Philadelphia produced football sets from 1964 through 1967. The designs of the different sets do not differ greatly, but I happen to think that they look cool, so why mess with something that works. Apparently someone in the Topps product development department agrees with me, since they decided to raise this design from the dead.
One thing that was different about the 1965 Philadelphia set was the introduction of the “Who Am I?” rub-off quiz on the card backs. I know Topps had done these rub-off trivia questions before, but Philadelphia’s was a bit unique in that the question was posed on one card, while the answer was supplied on another. That’s a pretty tricky way of getting kids to keep buying your cards.
There’s nothing too ground breaking about the design of these cards, but I think they have a nice, simple look to them and are well done. That being said, I don’t think they’re all that cool that Topps should have resurrected them in 2010. Can’t you just let the dead rest, Topps?
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