Monday, September 23, 2013

Football Helmets

Sunday was quite the day for me when it comes to collecting. Starting off the morning I had the plan to go north and hit an antique show they had going on. Waking up at the appropriate time I made the journey north. While my plan was to see about adding some sort of baseball memorabilia or possibly even cards on the cheep. What I got was something I never even imagined.

Entering the building I started doing the row after row thing. On the third row sitting on a table were these little goodies right here.


At the price I couldn't say no. This had to mostly be because of the memories flowing through my head as I handed over the dollar. I remember as a kid the first time I saw these helmets in one of those quarter candy machines. We barely made trips over to the town where these machines were located so we would save, and or beg for money so we could buy a couple. The machine would torture me as all I ever wanted was the Denver Broncos helmet. Things never worked out until Sunday as that one helmet always seemed to elude my hands. My friend always seemed to get his as he was an Oakland Raiders fan. Still that Broncos helmet never showed up. That was until looking into the bag, and finding two.


While some of these are admittedly in rough shape. I couldn't turn down the chance to not only finally add that Broncos helmet. So despite their age, and what not these will be finding a home in the hobby room at some point. The daughter already has what sounds like a great idea on how to display the entire collection. Once we get it figured out another post might get made. How long it takes to find exactly what she is looking for is yet to be determined. The hunt is most of the fun anyway if you ask me.

5 comments:

  1. I love finding objects from my youth. I, too, had a ton of those football helmets! Just the other weekend my parents brought over my ice cream sundae baseball helmets from my youth. What was once a complete set is now missing the four most recent expansion teams. I'm happy to say, "The hunt is on!"

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    1. I love those helmets too. I think I used to have a Rockies someplace, but with all the moves its long gone to who knows where. I've picked up one from the Eugene Emeralds the last three years as they've changed logos all three years. Hopefully you complete the set at some point. They have to be out there somewhere.

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  2. cool. I still have a box of these in the garage somewhere.... but I never could finish the set.
    congrats on getting your team.

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  3. Awesome pick up.

    I love the old school Jets helmet. As a kid, I would put quarter after quarter into the machine, yet I would never get the Jets. Just teams I hated like the Dolphins and the Raiders.

    Congrats on grabbing a terrific set.

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    1. That's so crazy. Where I was living it was always the Buccaneers, and Raiders. I bet I had a huge stack of the Bucs.Luckily the friend would trade me for the Raiders or I'd never have known they put other teams in that machine.

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