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Thread: Early 70's Rozelle Football
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04-03-2011, 04:06 PM #1
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Early 70's Rozelle Football
Fairly new to the hobby (focusing chiefly on NFL footballs); just picked this early 70's Pete Rozelle football restored by Hammer Sports Relics. As has been discussed in a previous thread, great work and a nice guy. Steve didn't know much about the ball except that it came from New Jersey, and I'm hoping someone here can help.
The ball is striped; I know from perusing Getty that the NFL did stripe balls for night games during that era. In addition - drawing off what jdr3 posted in a previous thread from Nov. 2009 - the production code is GG, indicating (?) a ball produced as an NFL game ball (same letter on either side versus a year/month code). Since I believe "G" indicates a year ending in "4," would this logically be a 1974 game ball? Even if this is the case, I'm sure it'd be next to impossible to narrow it down to a specific team or game, but I'm curious if there're any suggestions as to how I might do this.
I'd appreciate any help in confirming/debunking/reorienting my line of reasoning here.
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04-04-2011, 01:18 PM #2
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Re: Early 70's Rozelle Football
It is a gamer from the 1974 season. There would have been no identifiers for what city or game it was used by Wilson.
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04-04-2011, 02:10 PM #3
Re: Early 70's Rozelle Football
I have a couple old balls I'd like to get worked on. Will it affect the value at all?
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04-04-2011, 05:53 PM #4
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04-04-2011, 08:36 PM #5
Re: Early 70's Rozelle Football
I have the same ball but with a D D code. Any ideas as to it's year?
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04-04-2011, 09:34 PM #6
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04-05-2011, 02:00 PM #7
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04-05-2011, 02:53 PM #8
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Re: Early 70's Rozelle Football
Humn,
-Here's one "dated" scan
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84...y-Images-Sport
-If the 1st scan isn't conclusive, Lance Alworth played just two (2) seasons for the Cowboys, 1971 and 1972.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/78...y-Images-Sport
Jim
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04-05-2011, 07:50 PM #9
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Re: Early 70's Rozelle Football
The double letter C represented 1970, so the codes would progress as such:
DD= 1971
EE= 1972
FF= 1973
GG= 1974
HH= 1975
II= 1976
JJ= 1977
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04-05-2011, 10:30 PM #10
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