Top Bart Starr Cards to Collect
Bart Starr played in ten postseason games and won nine of them. He’s the only man to win three championships in a row (the final league championship in 1966 and Super Bowl I and II in ’67 and ’68). He perfected the play-action pass. Starr carried the entire Packers team on his back in his 16 seasons more than other Green Bay greats such as Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. In the 1960s, when the NFL’s popularity finally surpassed baseball, no. 15 was the best player on the best team in the league, and this Hall of Famer has five total championships to his name, an NFL MVP, two Super Bowl MVPs, and Hunter S. Thompson himself (as well as Nixon) was a fan (along with every person in Wisconsin).
There’s no denying Starr was one of the NFL’s first true icons, and his Topps cards are just as important in representing the golden age of football. It’s time to don your cheesehead hat while you check out but a few of the legendary Bart Starr cards you should collect.
Top Bart Starr Cards
1971 Topps Football #200 Bart Starr
Player info
• Starr’s final Topps card
• Only played in three games in this final year, as injuries would make his throwing arm ineffective
Set info
• 263 card set
card back
• vitals and career stats as well as a write-up on all the Packers records he held at the time as a passer, including the most passes completed in a game at 26 and most passes completed without an interception at 294.
1968 Topps Football #1 Bart Starr
Player info
• four-time NFL passer rating leader (1964, 1966, 1968, 1969)
• four-time NFL completion percentage leader (1962, 1966, 1968, 1969)
Card info
• 219 card set
• first release since 1961 to include both AFL and NFL players in the set
card back
• Vitals, 1967 passing stats, a factoid about his 8.68 yards per pass completion, an acknowledgment of the packers winning the Super bowl the prior year and a cartoon about his 1966 MVP year
1960 Topps Football #51 Bart Starr
Player info
• The 1960 season is when he took over as the full-time starting QB. the packers went to the 1960 NFL championship game and lost – the only postseason game he and coach lombardi would ever lose
• Threw a career-long 91-yard completion in 1960
Card info
• 132 card set
card back
• Vitals, 1959 passing stats and lifetime passing stats, with a rub off “football funny” space below
1970 Topps Football Super Glossy #9 Bart Starr
Player info
• Super Bowl I and II MVP
• became the packers head coach in 1975 through the 1983 season
Card info
• exclusive 33-card set (featuring 16 hall of fame players)
card back
• a stamp of authenticity with no.9 of 33 on the back plus his name, position, and team
1957 TOPPS Football #119 BART STARR RC
Player info
• drafted by the packers in the 17th round of the 1956 draft
• 1966 AP NFL MVP
Card info
• 154 card set
•first football set to have horizontal design and now industry standard 2.5 x 3.5 inch size
card back
• Vitals, a recap of his rookie year behind starting QB Tobin Rote, his rookie year stats (44 completed passes), and a cartoon about his Alabama passing prowess and 41-yeard punting average.
