'S-T-O-P ACTION'

In the Dec. 21, 1968, Sporting News, a company called All-Pro Posters in San Francisco advertises the following 2-foot-by-3-foot “FULL COLOR S-T-O-P ACTION POSTERS.” There were probably some licensing complications in play (maybe this company couldn’t get rights from certain teams or players), and it could be that the company’s photographers had no decent photographs of other players. Still, I think it’s interesting to see which players this company thought it could get kids to pony up $2 apiece for in 1968, as not all of them remain quite as noteworthy as they apparently were then:

Bart Starr, Jim Grabowski and Ray Nitschke of the Green Bay Packers;

John Mackey of the Baltimore Colts;

Roman Gabriel of the Los Angeles Rams;

Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears;

Junior Coffey of the Atlanta Falcons;

Bill Munson of the Detroit Lions;

Dan Reeves of the Dallas Cowboys;

Leroy Kelly and Frank Ryan of the Cleveland Browns;

Jim Bakken and Charlie Johnson of the St. Louis Cardinals;

Sonny Jurgensen of the Washington Redskins;

Norm Snead and Ben Hawkins of the Philadelphia Eagles;

Jim Nance of the Boston Patriots;

Len Dawson and Mike Garrett of the Kansas City Chiefs;

Joe Namath of the New York Jets;

Daryle Lamonica and Pete Banaszak of the Oakland Raiders, and

Jack Kemp of the Buffalo Bills.