Perhaps no team more personifies the beginning of the transformation of the National Football League from a rag-tag blue-collar bastion of Sunday afternoon mayhem and mischief into the multi-billion dollar behemoth that it is today than the Baltimore Colts from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Led by the ultimate blue-collar hero Johnny Unitas the Colts may have been American’s Team for the time with legendary figures surrounding their gritty quarterback and leading the club to greatness on those aforementioned Sunday afternoons. This pristine official Riddell 1960’s era replica Colts helmet helps tell that mythical story filled as it is with two dozen autographs from those classic Colt heroes with most of the Hall of Famers – and there were many of those – adding their “HOF” and year inscriptions and virtually all of the players including their uniform number inscription as well. The lineup now as then is imposing: Unitas Gino Marchetti Lenny Moore Raymond Berry Art Donovan Mike Curtis Tom Matte Lou Michaels Alex Sandusky Jim Mutscheller Ted Hendricks and more each in bold blue Sharpie and all neatly distributed on both side of the helmet. As noted the helmet is essentially as-issued and problem free.

Full LOA from PSA/DNA (H49369).