Football trading card for Warren Moon: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Topps/National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) trading card, number 350, for quarterback Warren Moon’s 1986 season with the Houston Oilers. The front of the card is green with white diagonal stripes. At center there is an image of two football players framed by blue and black bands. The player in the foreground, Warren Moon, is positioned with both hands holding the ball, ready to throw it. Moon is wearing a Houston Oilers uniform with a white jersey with a number [1] printed in blue and outlined in red, visible on the front and on the proper left sleeve. He is wearing blue football pants and a white helmet, both with red, blue, and white stripes. He is standing on his proper left leg with his proper left knee bent and his foot off of the ground behind him. In the background is another Houston Oilers player, Quarterback Oliver Luck, with a number [10] jersey with his back to the viewer. In the top, right corner of the card is the name [topps] in black text. At the bottom of the front of the card is a yellow block with black text that reads: [WARREN / MOON / QB], and a red, diagonal band with white text that reads: [OILERS]. The back of the card is yellow with brown text and brown-outlined graphics of people dressed in winter clothing and a skier around the left, right and top edges of the card. The text at the top of the back of the card reads: [350 / WARREN / MOON]. Below is information on Moon’s height, weight, college, birthdate, home and his Canadian Football League and National Football League career stats. Along the bottom edge of the card is text that reads: [B*© 1986 TOPPS CHEWING GUM, INC. PRTD. IN U.S.A.]. In the bottom right corner is the NFLPA football-shape logo. There are no inscriptions on the front or the back of the card.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1986
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Issued by: The Topps Company, Inc., American, founded 1938
• Issued by: National Football League Players Association, American
• Subject of: Warren Moon, American, born 1956
• Subject of: Tennessee Titans, American, founded 1959
• Subject of: National Football League, American, founded 1920
• Type: collecting cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: L x W: 3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in. (9 × 6.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Football
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2015.162.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1986 NFLPA; 1986 Topps Chewing Gum, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.