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Classic Sports Card of The Day

07 Nov

1965 Topps football card of one of the top receivers in the early years of the American Football League, Bo Roberson. He played for 7 seasons in the AFL for 4 different teams, with his longest stint lasting 3 1/2 years with the Oakland Raiders. Roberson got a lucky break in the middle of the 1965 season – when the defending champion Buffalo Bills ran into injury problems at the receiver position, they traded with the Raiders to acquire him – and he helped the Bills win a second straight title. Roberson, a graduate of Cornell, also was a track star in his college days, and won a silver medal in the long jump at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

 

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