Posted 9 years ago
jimi_po
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Lifetime Packer Fan, but can't find any references to this particular piece of fan memorabilia?
My parents were both from Green Bay, 1st generation as my Grandfather came right from Germany -- fell in love with the Packers. They used to watch them play at East High School & season tickets have been in my family ever since.
I came across this ball at a thrift store and am quite sure the signatures are print-signed. Even so, it appears to have been released by the Hall of Fame in Canton, likely around 1990 as Willie Wood was enshrined in 1989 and he is the most recent of the enshrinees whose signatures are on this ball.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM APPLETON,WI .that's 23 miles away from GB :)
We, the Packers, are America's Team, and next season is going to be sooooo nice!
My Aunt & Uncle are also from Appleton -- and are the current holders of those season tickets. They deserve them after suffering through the 70's.
The next GB Enshrinee after Willie Wood (1989) was Henry Jordan (1995) whose signature does not appear on this ball, so I'd imagine this was released sometime between 1989 and 1995? Any idea if the HOF had some kind of "Greatest Team Forever" ceremony around this time & this ball was released to commemorate the greatest team in NFL history?
Thankyou jimi for sharing and Yes your aunt and uncle do deserve them season tickets!!! yes they are the greatest team in NFL history!! :)
Brett Favre is his name not on there?
yes, really LOOKS like signature are Print signed -- Not real. I will post a football I have here (CFL) with real signatures -- as just a comparsion of the signature.
Print Signed Signatures.......VS......Real Signed Signatures
Hi -- Posted mine (just as a FYI) of Real Signatures (autogrpahs) on a Football should look like. Just an FYI for ya......
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/154961-example--of-authenic-signatures?in=activity
Stamped signatures and GO PACK ! In wi here next to Sean :-)
Still not sure how I feel about Favre. GB had an awful lot of Pro-Bowlers that helped make him a fan favorite. Some of the records he holds are shameful, as well as what he put his wife through. Yet, he feels like he's "all that & a bag of chips"...kinda like Sterling Sharpe, who feels the Packers would have been nothing without him.
I do realize this is a print-signed ball. Curly Lambeau died in 1965 and this ball wasn't produced until some 25yrs later. It seems this was a limited edition and may have been produced by the NFL HOF to commemorate specifically the Green Bay Packers for some special occasion?
Aaron, on the other hand, is amazing both on and off the field. Our whole team rocks & is only going to be the biggest threat in the NFL this coming season with the free-agents & our front line draft picks. Whoa!
I Saw him once a long time ago at Philling station , which was a bar downtown Appleton,wi. I used to work for Phil as well ...