As I mentioned a week or two ago, I’ve had to scour eBay trying to find some cards of some of the more notable football players turned actors. A lot of the somewhat bigger names have had a fair amount of cards available, but I keep getting outbid on them at the last second.
As I started to look through some of the perhaps lesser known names on my list, one auction jumped out at me–the player I was looking for was the top card on an unopened cello pack from 1979. And I thought, “Hmm…I can get the card for Card of the Week, and do an A Pack A Day style report on busting the pack.”
And, per usual, my next thought was “I wonder what else this seller has?”
So, over the next week or two, we’ll be busting some cello packs from my youth…and some wax packs…and even a rack pack.
First up? The pack that started it all–1979 Topps Cello pack.
I’ve blurred out the front of the pack, as we’ll save the mystery of who that is for next week’s CotW. Unless some of you are up on your 1979 Topps–in which case, guess away. I’ll probably even send along a little prize of some sort to the first to guess it.
The rest of the pack:
#202 LeRoy Harris
#83 Tom Jackson (the ESPN talking head is the best card of the pack, according to the infamous book)
#261 Glenn Doughty
#292 Bob Chandler
#6 1978 NFL Leaders: Punting (528 cards in the set, and one is devoted to the punting leaders…*sigh*)
#47 Johnnie Gray
#246 Billy “White Shoes” Johnson
#307 Shafer Suggs
#477 J.K. McKay (nice to see nepotism was alive and well in the NFL in the 70’s–McKay played for his dad at USC and for the Bucs, although he was gone before they finally had a good season. He also was the GM for the Los Angeles Xtreme in the XFL).
#133 Mark Moseley
#29 Joe Ehrmann
#341 Horace Ivory
#58 Bobby Bryant (at least I got a Viking!)
#117 Bucky Dilts (turns out, Bucky Scribner wasn’t the first punter named Bucky in the NFL. Nor was he the worst. Who woulda thunk it?)
#466 Larry Gordon
#13 Dave Logan
#315 Preston Pearson
Keep checking back for more busts. I hope to get one up each day for the next few, but I’ve said that before.
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John Matuszak. I really loved looking at all of my cards back in those days so I knew who it was immediately.
🙂 I guess that was maybe easier than I thought.
Yep, the Tooz…
’79 Football was the first set I ever completed from any sport. It’ll always be a little different than the rest…
GCA
Was Matooz the principle on that late eighties Saturday morning show?
Nice set. I just picked up a few team sets from 79 from my local shop.
Joe – the Tooz was not actually the principal you’re thinking of–but you may have just given me another player to look for. Although I’m not sure if appearing in Saved by the Bell: The College Years makes Bob Golic a TV “Star”…