Outstanding - I had not noticed the style of wrapper illustration yet.
The earliest wrapper I can find with a locker ad is 1973 Football (looks like the cardboard type). As shown here the 1974 wrappers indicate the cardboard looking locker also, but beginning in 1975, they appear to show the standard vinyl, maroon variety, right up through the last evidence I can find of a wrapper offer, 1982.
I propose that Topps "tested" the cardboard lockers with 1973 football. They were popular enough that Topps made them available across football and baseball (haven't looked for hockey or basketball wrappers) for 1974, and in 1975 debuted the standard vinyl, maroon, players on it variety.
They then kept this right up to they stopped offering them in 1982.
What do folks think about that scenario?
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