JACK KEMP SAN DIEGO CHARGERS FOOTBALL - Extremely RARE Football in EX+

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SAN DIEGO CHARGERS FOOTBALL - Jack Kemp
Unless you are a diehard, I mean really
DIEHARD,   SAN DIEGO CHARGERS  FAN
and want something that NO OTHER ‘diehard’ Chargers  fan will have  ... move on to the next listing.  This listing will NOT be for you!
Available is a
store model football endorsed by Jack Kemp (former QB and US politician)
, from the GLORY Days of the Chargers.  I once had the largest ‘store model’ football collection ever assembled.  I had (divorce provides the past tense) almost 3,600 different model balls and variation, dating from the beginning of the game up to the early 1970s, ie nothing modern and easy to procure.  What I am selling now are the remaining footballs of the collection and the balls that I couldn’t part with when I sold the collection, en masse to a Houston collector.
Generally, footballs are ‘rarer’ than baseball type equipment, gloves for example.  You only needed one football for the entire neighborhood to play the game  Footballs are almost always ‘roughed-up’ because they frequently hit the ground.  Additionally, over time bladders and stems simply give out and need to be replaced.  While all of these footballs hold air at some level, please assume that they will leak slowly over time - ALL Footballs do this.  So finding footballs that ‘hold air’ is uncommon.  However, there are solutions depending on a collectors need.
Wilson will replace bladders, stems and laces for about .00 - I have done that with great success many times in my collecting career.  Also, I know of collectors who elect to ‘stuff’ the ball and then relace the football rather than replace the bladder - most collectors are displaying these balls and not needing to throw them.
With regard to
shipping, it is not a profit center for me
.  We have become accustomed to free 2 day shipping with Prime.  Obviously, the REAL world does not operate in that fashion or at least mine doesn’t.  I have gone to USPS and had the box measured and weighed and the number below is the dollar figure that I will have to pay, thus the one that you will have to pay.  I lean toward shipping the balls slightly deflated and ‘packed in’ to save space and money.  We can, of course, do it differently, if you like.
The football has been used.  The
ball DISPLAYs nicely on a ‘tee’ in a Chargers Shrine
, like the one I had.
JACK KEMP
Spalding 358 -
VERY RARE
Football - Like
NEW
good form, does hold air for awhile
(though ALL footballs slowly lose air)
circa middle 1960s
in all of my collecting, this is the ONLY Kemp I ever came across