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John “Johnny” Unitas

Dick Butkus

BRIAN’S SONG’s Gayle Sayers

Alex Karras (“Mongo” in Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES)

Bart Starr

Fran Tarkenton

John Roland (who must be terribly cross-eyed!)

coach Vince Lombardi

these two football players are energetically dancing together!)

• “Football Fans Are Crazy About This True To Life Football Game”, a black-and-white, inside-front-cover ad for “Strat-O-Matic Pro Football” -- a game for both kids and adults -- available through mail-order from the “Strat-O-Matic Game Co.”
  
  
• A table of contents page that bears the disclaimer, “All information in this issue is accurate at the time of printing. Player personnel changes may have been made after this magazine has gone to press.”
  
  
• “Atlanta Falcons”, featuring Randy Johnson, Claude Humphrey, Ray Ogden and Junior Coffey, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.

• A page featuring two ads: “These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given To You!…When You Train At Home With NASD For A High Pay Job In Drafting!”, for mail-order instructional courses from the “North America School Of Drafting”; and “Free Book Tells You How You Can Build A Rugged Body – Command Respect And Admiration – Fear No Man”, for mail-order bodybuilding courses from the “American Body Building Club”.
  
  
• “Baltimore Colts”, featuring John “Johnny” Unitas, Earl Morral, Tom Matte, Willie Richardson and John Mackey, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Chicago Bears”, featuring Jack Concannon, Virgil Carter, Mac Percival, future coach Dick Butkus, BRIAN’S SONG’s Gayle Sayers and coach Jim Dooley, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Cleveland Browns”, featuring Frank Ryan, Bill Nelson, Paul Warfield, Gene Hickerson, Dick Shrafrath, Jim Houston, Gary Collins, Leroy Kelly and coach Blanton Collier, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Dallas Cowboys”, featuring future sportscaster Don Meredith, John Niland, Ralph Neely, Bob Lilly and Mel Renfro, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Detroit Lions”, featuring Bill Munson, Earl McCullough, Nick Eddy, Mel Farr, Alex Karras (“Mongo” in Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES) and coach Joe Schmidt, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Green Bay Packers”, featuring Donny Anderson, Jim Grabowski, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr, Elijah Pitts, Marv Fleming, Gale Gillingham, Willie Davis, Ron Kostelnik, Henry Jordan, Lionel Aldridge, Herb Adderly, Bob Jeter, Ray Nitschke, Tom Brown and Willie Wood, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players. (Judging by the number of players that writer/illustrator Tony Tallarico used here, I guess we have a pretty good notion as to which football team was Tony’s favorite!)
  
  
• “Los Angeles Rams”, featuring Roman Gabriel, Willie Ellison, Joe Scibelli and David Jones, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Minnesota Vikings”, featuring Joe Kapp, Jim Lindsey, Mick Tingelhoff, Gene Washington, Carl Eller, Jim Marshall, Gary Larsen and Alan Page, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “New Orleans Saints”, featuring Bill Kilmer, Don McCall, Dan Abramowicz, Doug Atkins and David Rowe, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “New York Giants”, featuring Fran Tarkenton, Pete Gogolak, Steve Wright, Pete Case, Greg Larson, Willie Young and coach Allie Sherman, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Philadelphia Eagles”, featuring Norman Snead, Tom Woodeshick, Mel Tom, Tim Rossovich and Floyd Peters, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Pittsburgh Steelers”, featuring Dick Shiner, Roy Jefferson, Dick Hoak, Ray May and Chuck Hinton, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “St. Louis Cardinals”, featuring Jim Hart, Willis Crenshaw, John Roland (who must be terribly cross-eyed!), Jackie Smith and Dave Williams, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “San Francisco 49ers”, featuring John Brodie, Gary Lewis, Ken Willard, Charlie Krueger and Elmer Collett, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “Washington Redskins”, featuring Sunny Jurgenson, Sam Huff, Gary Beban, Tom Brown and coach Vince Lombardi, plus complete rosters of the team’s veteran and rookie players.
  
  
• “The Unbelievable Super Bowl”, an illustrated, 8-page, quarter-by-quarter recounting of the 1969 Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets (and “youthful, colorful, outspoken Jet quarterback, Joe Namath”). It begins with the declaration, “Although the Super Bowl is a recent innovation in the history of professional football, it will be a long time before last year’s game will be out-done for dramatic impact.” (Here’s a rather strange illustration that attempts to visualize this “impact”, but it looks more like these two football players are energetically dancing together!)
  
  
• “NFL 1969 Regular Season Schedule”.
  
  
• “If You Missed This – Get This”, an ad for mail-order “programs of independent study leading to High School completion” from “International Correspondence Schools”.
  
  
• “The End Of The Skinny Body”, a black-and-white, inside-back-cover ad for a variety of mail-order bodybuilding courses, available from “Joe Weider”.
  
  
• “Now! The 4 Most Realistic Sports Games You’ve Ever Played!”, a black-and-white, back-cover ad for “Fran Tarkenton’s Pro Football”, “Rocky Graziano presents A Century Of Great Fights”, “Oscar Robertson’s Pro Basketball Strategy” and an unnamed baseball game, all available via mail-order from “Sports Games”.

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