Football Ticket Stubs

By Bob Swick (BobSwick@snet.net)
Published January 7, 2005

Football playoffs are in full swing, USC has again won a National Championship and football collectors continue their quest for more items for their collections. 

Ticket stub collecting is a fun type of collectible for your collection and continues to gain popularity.  I have always collected football ticket stubs and have kept at least one stub from each game that I have attended over the years.  It is a great way to look back at all of the games you have attended and is a collectible that you automatically get when you go to the game.

Many collectors of ticket stubs prefer trading for stubs that they need.  Collectors will collect their favorite NFL or College game stubs, while other collectors collect milestone games.  Several collectors just collect full tickets from the annual NFL Hall Of Fame game.  Collecting football ticket stubs is like owning a piece of football history.  Also with fewer football games being played there are less stubs available as compared to the other sports.

In my collecting I have come across two excellent collectors’ ticket stub websites, http://stubbytrader.com/links.html and http://www.ticketstubcollector.com/.   Both of these sites have trading forums for those collectors who wish to trade their duplicate stubs for stubs that they need.  I have made several trades with other collectors on both sites and have increased my football stub collection.

My collection consists of all the college and NFL games that I have attended over the years, Green Bay Packers stubs from 10/5/58 to the current season and I am also trying to collect one stub from as many college games as I can find.  I also prefer stubs as compared to full tickets as I know that in most cases the stub was from the actual game played.

I am also displaying several of my stubs from my personal collection in this article for my readers to view.  Ticket stub collecting is a fun collectible providing a historical view of the game of football.

Until next time good luck with your collections.

Bob Swick has been collecting football cards since 1965.  He also collects programs, yearbooks, media guides, ticket stubs, pocket schedules, and team photos of the Green Bay Packers, of which he is a shareholder.  He is a contributing writer to “Gridiron Greats” magazine.  He is also a member of The Professional Football Researchers Association.