So last weekend the National Sports Collector Convention took over the IX Center for many days of many, many, many sports-related collectibles, nostalgia, garbage, baseball cards, and …. well, they had freaking everything there.
I spent most of the morning and earlier afternoon on Thursday checking out the wares with ESPN’s Paul Lukas (find Paul’s exhaustive recap of the event and his thoughts on collecting here). Yes, the Sports Guy was there too, although I didn’t see him. His recap is here, and his 120-photo essay begins here.
Anyway, the photo above is of the 1982 Browns defensive book. Like, THE BOOK. It has everything from plays to rules and regulations to conduct guidelines and details on how much players can be fined for certain infractions (see photo below.) The dealer had the 1982 Browns offensive book also, and he made sure to tell me that among all the plays, Red Right 88 was no where to be found.
(Join me after the jump for much, much more.)
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.
