{"product_id":"graded-1977-topps-steve-largent-177-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-9-mint","title":"Vintage Graded PSA 9 Mint Steve Largent 1977 Topps #177 Rookie RC Football Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏈 \u003cstrong\u003eGraded PSA 9 Mint Steve Largent 1977 Topps #177 Rookie RC Football Card — Tulsa, Oklahoma — University of Tulsa — Seattle Seahawks — Seven-Time Pro Bowl — 100 Career Touchdown Catches — Pro Football Hall of Fame 1995 — Professional Sports Authenticator Grade 9 Mint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈 This is a 1977 Topps #177 Steve Largent Rookie Card graded PSA 9 Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator — the second-highest grade in the hobby, awarded to vintage cards that have survived nearly fifty years in a condition that reflects exceptional preservation, careful storage, and printing quality that the Topps production of 1977 could deliver at its best. For a card nearly a half-century old, PSA 9 Mint represents the top tier of survivorship — a card that the collectors who have held it across the decades have kept in the conditions that Topps cards from this era rarely achieve. Steve Largent's 1977 Topps rookie is the foundational card of the most productive receiver in Seattle Seahawks history. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eTulsa, Oklahoma — University of Tulsa — The Trade That Built a Legend\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 Steve Largent was born on September 28, 1954, in Tulsa, Oklahoma — and he played his college football at the University of Tulsa, where he established himself as the most productive receiver in the program's history before the Houston Oilers drafted him in the fourth round of the 1976 NFL Draft. What happened next is one of the most storied transactions in NFL history — the Oilers, unconvinced that Largent could play at the professional level, traded him to the newly formed Seattle Seahawks for an eighth-round draft pick. It is a trade the Oilers and every subsequent generation of NFL talent evaluators have used as the cautionary tale about what happens when short-term skepticism overrides the evidence of production. Largent became the standard by which Seahawks receivers have been measured ever since. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eSeattle Seahawks — The Standard for a Generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Steve Largent played fourteen seasons for the Seattle Seahawks from 1976 through 1989 and built one of the most complete receiving careers in the history of the position — a player whose route running precision, his hands, and his toughness over the middle of the field compensated for the speed that scouts had doubted in Houston. He was selected to seven Pro Bowls across his career, was the first player in NFL history to catch 100 touchdown passes, finished with 819 career receptions and 13,089 receiving yards, and held the NFL record for career receiving yards at the time of his retirement. The 1977 Topps rookie card captures his first professional season — the beginning of the story that the Oilers gave away for an eighth-round pick. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003ePro Football Hall of Fame 1995 — The 1977 Topps RC in PSA 9\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Steve Largent was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995 — the recognition from Canton that the career statistics, the consistency, and the production across fourteen seasons with the Seahawks had earned. The 1977 Topps #177 is his recognized rookie card — the Topps flagship product from his debut NFL season, the set that every serious vintage football card collector knows as the foundational Topps release of the late 1970s. In PSA 9 Mint condition, this nearly five-decade-old card has achieved a grade that requires everything to go right — the printing, the handling, and the storage across all the years since it was packed and shipped. HOF 1995. PSA 9 Mint. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏈🌟 Steve Largent. Tulsa, Oklahoma. University of Tulsa. Houston Oilers traded to Seattle Seahawks for an 8th-round pick. Seattle Seahawks 1976-1989. Seven-time Pro Bowl. First player to 100 career TD catches. Pro Football Hall of Fame 1995. 1977 Topps #177 Rookie RC graded PSA 9 Mint. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039470170344,"sku":"1977-T-SL-177-PSA-9","price":299.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-1977-topps-steve-largent-177-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-9-mint-vintage-treasures-423.webp?v=1770193485","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-1977-topps-steve-largent-177-rookie-rc-football-card-psa-9-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}