Marv Woodson’s Big Game?
May 23rd, 2011 | Published in error cards | 1 Comment
I was looking at some 1969 Topps cards today, and I ran across this Marv Woodson card. When I read the cartoon on the back, I thought, wow, now that has to be a record! So I did a search for the 1967 Pro Bowl, and I found a nice article about it. The article, it turned out, didn’t support the cartoon; it said Woodson’s team, the NFL East, had a total of four interceptions in the game. I then checked Woodson’s page at pro-football-reference.com and got the real story: Woodson had seven interceptions during the 1967 season, and he also made the Pro Bowl that year. The cartoonist sort of contracted those two accomplishments.
Though I don’t often look at the cartoons, this is the second big error I have found in a cartoon on a Topps card. The other was on Homer Jones’s 1968 Topps card, which said that “Homer Defeated the Russians in the 1960 Olympics.” As I wrote in an earlier blog post, Jones never competed in the Olympics.
So now I’m skeptical: Did Butch Byrd really love to read detective stories in his spare time? Did Roy Jefferson really dabble in investments after football season? Did Ron McDole really play paddle-racquets to stay in condition? I’ll check my facts before quoting the cartoonist!
May 24th, 2011 at 10:53 AM (#)
I found an error with the cartoon graphic on the back of the 1963 Topps #83 Jerry Norton card. Here is what I wrote on my website about it…
I noticed an error on the Jerry Norton card. The answer to the question “How Did the Cowboys Acquire Jerry?” is incorrect. He was not the Cowboys first draft choice as the answer dictates. This is made fairly obvious by the fact that he’s pictured in an Eagles uniform. Norton was drafted by the Eagles in the 7th round in 1954.