1968 Topps football card of former Dallas Cowboys receiver Bob Hayes. An Olympic sprinter who carried the title “World’s Fastest Human”, he became an instant hit as a receiver in the NFL and started a trend of other “copycat” NFL teams scouring the country for track stars to try to convert into split ends. While it turned out that a lot of those other track stars weren’t very good at playing football, “Bullet Bob” was, and he put together a dominating 11 year career that resulted in his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009, unfortunately 5 years after he passed away. When the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl title in 1971, Hayes became the first player to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.
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