Product code: Shops VINTAGE NFL FOOTBALL(Pre-Merger)
VINTAGE NFL FOOTBALL Estate shops find! This very rare official Wilson NFL football was manufactured between 1959 and 1966, before the NFL-AFL merger,right after the death of Commissioner Bert Bell. Notice the NFL had only the two conferences:The Eastern conference and the Western conference, and according to Wilson and the NFL Hall of Fame it is a pre-NFL/AFL merger ball, and granted a model number for the buying public, immediately after George Halas relinquished his Thorp Sporting Goods label to Wilson. All balls previous to that were inscribed with their Thorp Sporting Goods/Wilson label. After the merger the new NFL football would have inscribed :The National Football League and below it: National Conference and American conference. The rare ball is in perfect condition never been played with and was only in a display case. My asking price is $75.00 OBO.
VINTAGE NFL FOOTBALL Estate shops find! This very rare official Wilson NFL football was manufactured between 1959 and 1966, before the NFL-AFL merger,right after the death of Commissioner Bert Bell. Notice the NFL had only the two conferences:The Eastern conference and the Western conference, and according to Wilson and the NFL Hall of Fame it is a pre-NFL/AFL merger ball, and granted a model number for the buying public, immediately after George Halas relinquished his Thorp Sporting Goods label to Wilson. All balls previous to that were inscribed with their Thorp Sporting Goods/Wilson label. After the merger the new NFL football would have inscribed :The National Football League and below it: National Conference and American conference. The rare ball is in perfect condition never been played with and was only in a display case. My asking price is $75.00 OBO.