Random Card of the Day

 -hamrlik22 - The rules were for the scratch off game they had for that year. Most every pack had a scratch off game card inserted. It was a fun game to play but you didn't need a stack of cards. If I recall Each player just needed a scratch off card and you took turns scratching off a black square and on a piece of notebook paper or scratch paper you tracked what happened in the game.

-BigBoyOnWheels - They were made back in the days BEFORE The Internet, BEFORE mass produced price guides (The first Beckett Price Guide was printed circa 1979)

I actually collect checklists nowadays, whether its vintage, junk era or current. But you really dont see these kinda checklists anymore. Topps does some highlight cover for its checklist cards and squeeze them all in super fine print on the backs of the cards.  I like the older school ones you could actually read and check off if you were into that sorta thing. 

-lyfestory - I'm the same almost. I prefer the older checklists, not much into the modern style. I also perfer the oldtime team cards that had a photo of the full team, not these one or two player "in action" or celebration pics.

This Baltimore Colt team was awful, 2-12 on the field.

They had just gotten rid of the legend Johnny Unitas.

I remember going to the games as a kid and watching a truly horrible team.

They got better, but what a tough season.

My Colts memories begin a few years after yours. You can see pieces of the future and pieces of the past on this checklist - Raymond Chester, Ted Hendricks, Bert Jones, Don McCauley, Lydell Mitchell, Bruce Laird.

A mult-purpose checklist, makes it more appealing.

These checklists warm my heart as they remind me of my childhood as a collector. This particular Colts team was phenomenal and would go on to win the AFC East just 2 short years later. Bert Jones from LSU developed into an awesome QB that won offensive player of the year in '76 and was NFL's most valuable player that year as well.

For all the young'ns out there. We didn't have the luxury of the WWW. Websites that you can now find most checklists and cards. We were still communicating with 2 Dixie cups attached to a string..