New in the Gallery: NFL Players Whose Numbers Have Been Retired

June 1st, 2013  |  Published in New in the Gallery  |  2 Comments

Last week the Chicago Bears announced that the team will retire Mike Ditka’s number in December. This prompted me to add a page to the Vintage Football Card Gallery that shows all of the NFL players whose jersey numbers have been retired. For the players who appear on cards in the Gallery, I tried to find cards that showed them wearing their numbers. Check out the new page!
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  1. Michael Moran says:

    June 3rd, 2013 at 6:28 PM (#)

    Maybe a subsection could be players who wore numbers after they were supposedly retired. I don’t know about other teams but for the NY Giants, after Ray Flaherty’s #1 was retired (he left the Giants in 1935) Frank Cope wore #1 in 1946; Supposedly Tuffy Leemans’ #4 was retired in 1940, but he wore it through 1943 and Leland Shaffer was #4 in 1945.

  2. nearmint says:

    June 3rd, 2013 at 7:05 PM (#)

    Thanks for the comments, Mike. I’ll add those notes when I get a chance. I have read about exceptions and informally retired numbers for other teams, as well.