{"id":5232,"date":"2017-01-23T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:43:20","slug":"sticker-album-1972-73-atlanta-falconsnew-england-patriots-fleer-cloth-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/sticker-album-1972-73-atlanta-falconsnew-england-patriots-fleer-cloth-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Album: 1972-73 Atlanta Falcons\/New England Patriots Fleer Cloth Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I begin the countdown to Super Bowl LI between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons by turning the clock all the way back to 1972-73. Here’s a great entry from the Fleer cloth patch series of that era, featuring the helmet and wordmark of the Falcons, paired with the classic stars and stripes wordmark of the Patriots.<\/p>\n

\"1972-73<\/p>\n

1972 happens to be the first year the Pats and Falcons met in the regular season, a 21-20 New England win at\u00a0Schaefer Stadium. The teams have only faced each other an additional 12 times (not counting preseason)\u00a0since then, so this upcoming Super Bowl makes 14.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to the Fleer Sticker Project<\/a> for background information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I begin the countdown to Super Bowl LI between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons by turning the clock all the way back to 1972-73. Here’s a great entry from the Fleer cloth patch series of that era, featuring the helmet and wordmark of the Falcons, paired with the classic stars and stripes wordmark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[59,195,536,465,89,91,99],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sticker-album","tag-1970s","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-cloth-patches","tag-fleer","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-stickers","wpcat-98-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}