In 1986 I got lucky when McDonald's put out their football cards. There was a different color scratch off each week for four weeks if my memory serves me correctly?
We had the Dallas Cowboys and the All-Star sets each week in our area. I went to the two local stores and the managers allowed me to actually take home cases, sort out team sets and return them??? I put together many set of Cowboys and All-Stars. I then responded to ads in the Sports Collectors Digest for trades. It was pretty easy though I remember the Saints having a tough color, maybe blue?
I took some of these free to me sets to a card show and traded for a 1953 Topps Mantle, a 1953 Topps Paige and a 1951 New York Yankees yearbook.
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