The Green Bay Packers may have seemed like the most unlikely of dynasties but that’s precisely what they were in the 1960’s in dominating the National Football League from their tiny northern Wisconsin hamlet even prior the advent of revenue sharing that makes possible the parity of the modern era. For a blue-collar bastion of Sunday afternoon mayhem and mischief it’s hard to beat the story of the Green Bay squad that captured five NFL Championships in the decade of the 1960’s and then capped it off by taking the first two Super Bowls predating even the conventional use of the term. The National Football League was on the cusp of turning into the multi-billion dollar behemoth that it is today a transformation that has at its origins the Green and Gold mythology that has lasted into the new millennium. With such a weighty intro comes this striking pristine official Riddell VSR-4 Proline Packers helmet to tell that story filled as it is with 30 autographs from those Packers from those first two Super Bowls with virtually every player adding his uniform number inscription and several of the HOFers adding their induction year as well. The lineup now as then is remarkable: Bart Starr (largest of all autographs) Paul Hornung Max McGee Fuzzy Thurston Forrest Gregg Jerry Kramer Willie Wood Willie Davis Don Chandler Boyd Dowler Bob Jeter Carroll Dale Marv Fleming Donny Anderson and others. The contrast of the bold black Sharpie autographs on the gold helmet is nothing short of sensational which probably seems appropriate for an artifact with this particular pedigree. As noted the helmet is essentially as-issued and problem free.

Includes full LOA from PSA/DNA (J32178).