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Well, not to throw cold water on this, but if someone can copy, why not scan them since the copies will have to be scanned anyway. Does the HOF charge for someone coming in with a laptop and scanner? There are scanners (cheap on ebay) that have document loading so you put the sheets in and all 12-13 pages are scanned. Then to the next one...

just food for thought

One of the issues is that the folks who run NFLGSIS (who I presume is the NFL) probably don't even realize all these game books are sitting in the HOF library, or that the game books in the PFRA Member Only areas greatly exceed what is available at NFLGSIS. It would be nice if the three of us could work together and pool our resources to get all of these released.

Being extremely tactical about it, they're all stapled together, you cannot typically run an 8-9 page doc through a scanner, so the biggest issue is really the time. I'd guess it's a month of work minimum, time spent not working on your day job, if you me a living absent a day job (congrats first of all) it's still a month in a hotel in Canton, probably a couple grand. Finally, compared to a decade ago, the place is basically on lock down, you probably could have done some sort of assembly line type thing back then. If it were easy, it already would have been done.

By my count there are 2215 gamebooks missing from 1960 to present.

Here is my list of the missing gamebooks:

http://www.profootballarchives.com/miss ... books.html

TodMaher wrote:By my count there are 2215 gamebooks missing from 1960 to present.

Here is my list of the missing gamebooks:

http://www.profootballarchives.com/miss ... books.html

I can't believe how many of these are from the 80's and 90's. You would think one of the teams would have these. When was the last time somebody reached out to these teams?

Looking at your list I have the 12/22/80 Pittsburgh San Diego Gamebook. I just opened it up and looked at it.

I'll check my library of gamebooks against your list and get back with you.

Rupert Patrick wrote:

TodMaher wrote:By my count there are 2215 gamebooks missing from 1960 to present.

Here is my list of the missing gamebooks:

http://www.profootballarchives.com/miss ... books.html

I can't believe how many of these are from the 80's and 90's. You would think one of the teams would have these. When was the last time somebody reached out to these teams?

I remember reading that the Rams basically purged everything before their move to St. Louis in 1995.

Rupert Patrick wrote:Looking at your list I have the 12/22/80 Pittsburgh San Diego Gamebook. I just opened it up and looked at it.

I'll check my library of gamebooks against your list and get back with you.

In fact, we should have all the Steeler gamebooks from 1969 onwards. Let me double check and I'll update the list.

Ok, we have all the Steeler games back to 1969, so the revised list is down 2108 games.

http://www.profootballarchives.com/miss ... books.html

Filled in the Lions and Eagles gamebooks as well. So the total is now 1766.

TodMaher wrote:By my count there are 2215 gamebooks missing from 1960 to present.

Here is my list of the missing gamebooks:

http://www.profootballarchives.com/miss ... books.html

Is this the missing from the NFLGSIS or from the Gamebook committee or both? I have noticed a couple times NFLGSIS has one the that is not on gamebooks committee and vice versa.