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Classic Sports Card of The Day

21 Sep

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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