Oakland Raiders - Custom Extension Set

Here are the 1967 Oakland Raiders cards made by RetroCards.net, the companion set to the original Topps cards. 

 

These look much better than the Chiefs' cards I posted last week. 

 

 

As usual, there's no room within Blogger's 200-character limit for labels to include everybody. 

 

Next? RetroCards also made a 1967 set for the Bears. If and when I buy that, I will post them here. That's the last of the 1967 cards.

Kansas City Chiefs - Custom Extension Set

This is the fourth of five 1967 team sets I bought from RetroCards.net. Previously, I posted the Cowboys, Packers, and Saints sets.  Those are all great-looking cards.  

I can't say the same for these Chiefs cards.  Almost every photo is too dark - some so dark as to either not be able to make out the player's face, or that the jersey is red.  It doesn't help that the borders are also black (Topps' original color for the Chiefs' cards). 

On the plus side, we have 18 more players for the defending AFL champions.  (Notable absences from the combined Topps/RetroCards set are G Ed Budde, K Jan Stenerud, MLB Willie Lanier, T Dave Hill, and DE Chuck Hurson.)

 

"65 Toss Power Trap!"

I also bought the Raiders' set at the same time.  Those cards have much better photo quality.

Next: Oakland Raiders

New Orleans Saints - Custom Extension Set

After the disaster that was the 1967 Philly Gum Saints cards, RetroCards could have done just about anything and it would have been an improvement over the originals. 

 

They responded with an 18-card set, featuring everyone in a new Saints jersey. Included in the set are Bill Kilmer, Jim Taylor, Dan Abramowicz, Doug Atkins, and a multi-player card featuring Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor, among others. 

 

Gary Cuozzo started most of the games in 1967.  Bill Kilmer was the regular QB from 1968-70, then was traded to the Redskins. (In 1971, 2nd-overall pick Archie Manning took over.)

7 receivers! (WRs Hall, Roberts, Abramowicz, Gilliam, Poage, and Simmons, plus TE Kramer.)

Steve Stonebreaker has a Jim Taylor haircut! 

 

In my recent post about the custom Cowboys cards, I showed a card back. While the backs of all the custom Cowboys cards have referee signals, the backs of the Packers and Saints cards have a montage of custom card photos. (Looks like they are working on a Rams set.)

 

 

Next: Kansas City Chiefs

Green Bay Packers - Custom Extension Set

Continuing with the "Cards That Never Were" sets from RetroCards.net, here are the 1967 Packers. 

 

The original set included mostly defensive players, so there are a lot of offensive players (17 of 20 cards) in this set. 

 

Lots of running backs! (Filling the void of the departed Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor.) 

 

Boyd Dowler and Carroll Dale are both noted as flankers here, but on the back of both cards it says "he could line up at split end too". How versatile of them! 

 

6 offensive linemen (augmenting the 2 starting tackles in the original set).

The original set included CB Herb Adderley and S Willie Wood. Bob Jeter was also a starting cornerback.  Between the two sets, I think the only regulars missing are DE Lionel Aldridge, DT Ron Kostelnik, and S Tom Brown. 

 

(Note: Blogger limits the combined length of all labels to 200 characters, so there was no room to include the backup players.)

 

 

Next: New Orleans Saints

Dallas Cowboys - Custom Extension Set

Back in 2017 I posted this about a company named RetroCards that made "Football Cards That Never Were" (and a few baseball cards too). 

At that time, I had purchased their sets for 1967 and 1971 Cowboys, and the 1967 and 1968 Packers. Since then, I have purchased many other sets, that you can find listed on this blog's sidebar under the RetroCards ad. 

Here are their additional Cowboys' cards to supplement the original set.

I wasn't going to post these cards, because it was noted by other bloggers that some scumbags were selling custom cards (one-off card fronts made by others in the card blogging community) on eBay for their own profit. 

But, I decided to post these now, to show you what they look like. I have added a watermark (similar to what the company does on their own website). I think this is a 1-man operation, so I don't want my postings to cut into his sales. Also, I had to pay for these cards, so....

 

The card backs are very similar to the originals.

 

I will also be posting their 1967 Packers, Saints, Chiefs, and Raiders sets.