Night Owl Cards

  This post was inspired by a night owl-specific prompt from one of the original card bloggers, Phungo, the other day: If I'm correct in knowing what he means, I have mentioned this aspect of the 1975 Topps set in passing a number of times on this blog and especially when I was writing the 1975 Topps blog . But I haven't written an entire post on it, covering every team included in the set. As you know, the '75 set has wild two-tone borders with colors that clash crazily with the team featured -- what team wears purple-and-green that isn't the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks in the 1990s? But there are instances in which the colors match almost perfectly. Those are the times when you wondered if Topps specifically picked those borders to honor that player, and those were also the times when that card would often become a favorite of mine when I was collecting the set as a kid. Here now is what I found as the perfect color match for each team in the '75 set:   ATLANTA BRAV...