Sports Collectors Digest

PAUL HORNUNG COLLECTIBLES PROVE UNDERVALUED

FAREWELL TO OUR FOOTBALL FRIENDS — We’re nearing the end of 2020, and we won’t forget this year as one of great loss. The most recent, as of this writing, is Green Bay Packer great Paul Hornung. He’s one of multiple Vince Lombardi-era Packers who died this year. Among the others were Herb Adderley and Willie Wood (covered in this space last time out) along with Willie Davis and Doug Hart. Plus, Hornung is one of two Hall of Fame running backs we lost this year, with Gale Sayers having passed away in September.

So today, we take a closer look at Hornung, Sayers and Fred Dean—still another NFL Hall of Famer who died this fall.

— Paul Hornung came

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