This is a logo of one of the teams that will begin play in Vince McMahon’s new XFL when it commences operations in 2020, the St. Louis BattleHawks. The team will compete in the East Division of the new league. They will be the only XFL club to not share the market in their city with an … Read More
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Classic Sports Card of The Day
1986 Topps football card, courtesy of CheckOutMyCards.com , of a player many consider the greatest of all time, former wide receiver Jerry Rice. This is his “rookie” card, from 1986, and he would play 20 years in the NFL, 16 of them with the San Francisco 49ers. He holds most career records for wide receivers in … Read More
NFL 100 – Hardy Brown
When it comes time to list the greatest players in the 100 year history of the National Football League, Hardy Brown is hardly a name anyone would think of. But he is legendary among the players who helped build the game in the wild and wooly days of the 1950s, when player safety was an … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
This season many NFL teams are celebrating anniversaries, whether it’s 100 seasons as an NFL franchise or 60 years as an AFL charter member. This logo, appropriately, was issued in 1995 to celebrate the 49th anniversary of the San Francisco 49ers franchise. The team had just completed the highly successful Joe Montana era where they … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
The Classic Sports Card of The Day for this day isn’t a real one. It’s a home-made card, mimicking a 1955 Bowman style, done by Bob Lemke of boblemke.blogspot.com, of one of the NFL’s legendary hard hitters, linebacker Hardy Brown. Brown played 10 seasons of pro football with 7 different teams and his best and longest … Read More
NFL 100 – Lamar Hunt
The National Football League as we know it today would not be the juggernaut that it is without the contributions of the men known as “The Foolish Club”, the owners who defied the established NFL and formed the upstart American Football League in 1960. And the AFL likely would never have gotten off the ground, … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo honoring the 60th season of the Kansas City Chiefs’ existence as a franchise. The team started out as a charter member of the American Football League in Dallas as the Texans, and moved to Kansas City in 1963. The logo includes a football containing the initials of their founder and original owner, Lamar Hunt. … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
1964 Topps football card of a former pro football defensive lineman, Junious “Buck” Buchanan, who enjoyed a 13 year career, all with the Kansas City Chiefs. The NFL’s New York Giants picked him in the 19th round of the 1963 draft, while the Chiefs, who obviously had better scouts, made him the top pick of the … Read More
NFL – Buffalo Bills 2019 Season Preview
The NFL’s 100th season begins this week, and the regular season campaign for the Buffalo Bills will also be a historic one – the 60th in team history. Here is our preview of the Bills’ prospects for 2019, position by position: Front Office/Coaching After breaking their playoff drought in 2017, the Bills took a … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
This is a logo for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, commemorating their 60th year of existence in 2019. While the NFL is embarking on it’s 100th season, the Bills, and the rest of the American Football League, played their first games in 1960. The Bills were a bit of an enigma in those early AFL days, … Read More