Show Us Your Favorite AFL Items

[BigRedOne]

I have witnessed Todd and Jeff's Outstanding AFL items before and they are always amazing! Where do you guys dig up all of those odd ball items!?


HRBARKER: The Auto'd Wire Photos are absolutely priceless!

I really like the Bills Photo with Billy Shaw. Football down and Dirty like it should be. Who is the other Bills Lineman in the photo(#67)? Whoever it is, he looks like he means business, and I don't believe I want to be on the other end of that business deal!


My ventures into the AFL started a few years back when I began picking up a few 64 Topps Cards. I figured since it was my Birth Year......... ya know..

I think Im now up to 50 some odd cards. I also just picked up The Lamonica and Jack Kemp from my ole Buddy Rich Icaan! I'll have to get those scanned.

[jefferyepayne]

Great stuff, everybody!

John: those '64s are pristine! As always, your eye is impeccable when it comes to cards.

Thanks for posting these. I know a lot of collectors don't like the '64 set as it seems too ... sparkly? I've never met a set I didn't like so don't mind them at all. Keep'em coming.

jeff

[AFLfan]

I went to visit with Paul Lowe yesterday. He signed a few cards for me, including this one. Kind of a longstanding joke here...

[Joe Hunter]

First ever regular season Oakland Raiders game program and 1968 season AFL All Star Game program with 24 signatures. Second photo from right to left: 1963, 1965 and 1968 KC Chiefs nodders. The '63 is nearly impossible to find and the '65 is tough, as well.

[AFLfan]

I've posted some of these individually, but last night I took a scan of one of my favorite binder pages in my collection.

[BigRedOne]

Joe Hunter

Fantastic looking pieces you have there! The Oakland Raider Program has beautiful art and colors, Very nice! The Nodders are just so cool as well! Thanks for posting them!

[BigRedOne]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

Great stuff, everybody!

John: those '64s are pristine! As always, your eye is impeccable when it comes to cards.

Thanks for posting these. I know a lot of collectors don't like the '64 set as it seems too ... sparkly? I've never met a set I didn't like so don't mind them at all. Keep'em coming.

jeff

Much appreciate the kind words Jeff!

Over the Past couple years Ive kind been pecking away at the 64 set here and there. I know the 64 set is not on everybody's must have list, but it is my birth year, and if you can find them with nice centering they really are quit nice looking, at least to me. I seem to have a deep devotion for Stars and Stripes

Here are the Daryle Lamonica Rookie and Jack Kemp Cards I just received from none other than Rich Caan, and a few others Ive picked up along the way somewhere.

[Butch7999]

#67 is the well respected, fondly remembered Joe O'Donnell.

Originally Posted by BigRedOne

I really like the Bills Photo with Billy Shaw. Football down and Dirty like it should be. Who is the other Bills Lineman in the photo(#67)? Whoever it is, he looks like he means business, and I don't believe I want to be on the other end of that business deal!

[andypcl]

Great pieces everyone! Here's a button that I've had for many years. It must have been an early effort to sell tickets...

[BigRedOne]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

#67 is the well respected, fondly remembered Joe O'Donnell.

Thanks for the info. Its a great Photo!

[HRBAKER]

[DBesse27]

Holy crap, that signed Buoniconti RC is a MONSTER card!!

[DBesse27]

I'm a big Gino Cappelletti collector, but as I built my collection I purposely left out the team cards, since I'm not a fan of vintage team cards in baseball. Truth be told, I excluded them without taking the time to check them out. I did recently and when I saw how easy it was to pick out #20 and how recognizable his face was, I decided to pick them up. There were only 2 team cards during his career: 64 Topps and a 68 Topps test issue. The first of them arrived, and it's the tougher of the two:



The cards in this test issue were pretty large, if you couldn't tell that it's in a tallboy holder. Gino is in the second row, 4th in from the left. I dig it.

[AFLfan]

I love the team cards, and am slowly picking up copies of the 68s to get signed. I have roughly 200 different signed 1964s.