1968 Topps Football Cards

The 1968 Topps football card set contains 220 cards: 132 in the first series and 88 in the second. The set contains both NFL and AFL players. The cards are numbered 1-219, with two variations of card number 219, the second series checklist. The second series checklist with green print on the back was released with the first series cards, presumably to alert kids that a second series would be available. (See my blog article, C is for Checklists.) The Gallery's 1968 Topps virtual uncut sheet page shows what full sheets of first and second series cards looked like.

The cards of players from the Super Bowl II teams, the Green Bay Packers and the Oakland Raiders, are oriented horizontally and have a different background than the rest of the player cards. The backs of some second series cards are pieces to puzzles of Bart Starr and Len Dawson, the starting quarterbacks of Super Bowl I. Strangely, Dawson is pictured in his old Cleveland Browns uniform.

Each pack of 1968 Topps first series cards included an "All Star Pin-Up Picture" insert. Each pack of second series cards contained a "Football Stand-Up Plak." These "plaks" are now referred to as 1968 Topps Stand-Up cards; you can see the full set in the Gallery.

Rookie cards of Pro Football Hall of Famers in the 1968 Topps set: Bob Griese, Floyd Little.