Originally posted by 5Jan2003:
I probably still have a box of Sporting Greens and front page Chronicle and Mercury News from the 80's victorious NFCCGs and Super Bowls.
Great stuff. That'll never happen like that again.
I have a lot of that stuff too. I still have my ticket stub from the last game ever played at Kezar, the NFC championship game against Dallas.
Back in the '50s the beer sponsors, (Burgermeister and Falstaff) put out 7 x 9 inch full color team photos. They were free in most liquor stores if you bought something so we would go in and buy a soda and get a photo. I have team photos from 1954, '55, ,57, and ,58. I don't know what happened to 1956. It's shocking to see how few black players were on the team back then. In 1954 there were only 2, John Henry Johnson and Joe Perry. By 1958 the number had "swelled" to 5.
The 1958 photo has a picture of the coaches on the back. Frankie Albert HC, Bill Johnson, Red Hickey (inventor of the shotgun and the ally oop, Phil Bengston (future Packers HC and Pappy Waldorf ) player personnel). At the bottom on the back it tells you to watch the 49ers on CBS with Tom Harmon and listen to Bob Fouts and Lon Simmons on KSFO.
Some really old nostalgia.
[ Edited by CatchMaster80 on Mar 29, 2022 at 8:53 AM ]