With the National Football League in high gear for the SuperBowl February 4, 2007, I’m reminded of SuperBowls past.
Perhaps your favorite team didn’t make the playoffs – there’s always next year! If not, the following year!
Back in the late nineties, the National Football League chose Sprint to be the league’s official telecommunications provider. Sprint produced a promotional commemorative Super Bowl Ticket Set of prepaid Foncards. Super Bowl tickets from 1967 to 1998 were reproduced in a stiff plastic like gloss coated heavy stock measuring 2 5/8″ wide, 6 5/8″ length. Each ticket provided 10 minutes of domestic long distance and have long since expired (7/31/1999). I remember getting these cards in a eight separate mailings from Sprint only if I would agree to switch long distance carriers for my domestic call from MCI to Sprint for at least a year. The Super Bowl cards were the carrot that I gladly said yes to!
The first Super Bowl between the Green Packer Packers and Kansas City Chiefs had a ticket face value of $10 and now between $500 to $700 each. Times have changed indeed, with the highly sought after tickets (70,000) distributed in the following manner:
AFC Champion – 17.5 percent
NFC Champion – 17.5 percent
Host Team (Dolphins) – 5.0 percent
Other 29 Teams – 34.8 percent
NFL – 25.2 percent
Enjoy the Road to the SuperBowl! Soon, it will be time to hang up the jerseys, put away the foam fingers, pay the bar tab and move on with our lives now that football fanatics like me suddenly have fifteen extra hours off the couch. Time to hit the treadmill and get in shape for next season!
First Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Second Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Third Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Fourth Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Fifth Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Sixth Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Seventh Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
Final Series of Four Sprint Prepaid Foncards in a 32-Card Set
