The Goal Line Art cards are beautiful - I used to buy them and send them to the players through the HOF in the early to mid nineties - many of the players were willing signers when sent with a nice polite note (a few charged a nominal fee - I think maybe Sammy Baugh and Don Hutson charged like $5 or something.) Some would include an extra signed card or post card or a nice note. Most of the players also did a very nice job signing them neatly and legibly. If I recall correctly, I think right around 2000 or 2001 the HOF stopped forwarding mail, and fewer and fewer players were signing through the mail. And of course many of the newer, modern players who are elected are charging very high fees to sign at shows, so trying to keep up with the set would be fairly costly. I still pull them out from time to time - always make me smile!
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