In the 1977 Topps Mexican Football issue, there are a number of short-printed cards that seem to be much harder to find than the average card.  The objective of this guide is to have a list of the short printed cards and rank them by relative levels of scarcity.

As would be expected, these cards that are harder to find are in higher demand than the more common cards.  Unfortunately, the standard price guides do not properly recognize these SPs and the prices in the guides do not necessarily reflect the prices that the cards actually exchange hands at.

Beckett has recently attempted to identify some of the SPs in the set and has designated 76 cards as SP.  I believe they have identified some, but not all of them.  The pricing seems a bit arbitrary, but to be fair, there's not a lot of transactions in the rarer cards on which to base prices.

For more general information on the 1977 Topps Mexican Football Set, please see my eBay Guide.

I think that there are four tiers of difficulty in this set and the rankings in this guide are from my experience and what I have seen.  I welcome comments and opinions on where cards should be ranked.

Tier IV

The most difficult cards in the set.  Sometimes referred to as the "Dirty Dozen", but I think there are more than a dozen.  Most set collectors one or more of these cards as the last few to complete their set.

• 008 Rick Volk
• 021 Lawrence Gaines
• 089 John McDaniel
• 098 Ray Rhodes
• 231 Eddie Brown
• 269 Archie Griffin
• 276 Wilbur Jackson
• 284 Danny White
• 374 Benny Ricardo
• 388 Gordon Bell
• 404 Ray Jarvis
• 434 Eric Torkelson
• 444 Mike Pruitt
• 453 OJ Simpson RB
• 488 Rich Sowells
• 528 Super Bowl XI

Tier III

Not quite as difficult to find as the Tier IV group, but still a challenge.

• 002 Receiving Leaders
• 003 Rushing Leaders
• 004 Scoring Leaders
• 005 Interception Leaders
• 006 Punting Leaders
• 016 Bill Stanfill
• 025 Greg Pruitt
• 029 Lee Roy Selmon
• 030 Ed White
• 031 Harold McClinton
• 040 Tommy Hart
• 049 Dave Jennings
• 063 Ed Galiagher
• 066 John Keyworth
• 079 Jim Mitchell
• 096 Anthony Davis
• 103 Charlie Smith
• 104 Carlos Brown
• 118 Richard Todd
• 126 Dave Hampton
• 147 Lawrence Pillers
• 155 Willie Lanier
• 163 Guy Morriss
• 164 Bob Parsons
• 165 Steve Grogan
• 168 Ron Carpenter
• 169 Jeff Wright
• 175 Brad Van Pelt
• 176 Dexter Bussey
• 181 Dan Neal
• 182 Rich Szaro
• 186 Greg Buttle
• 188 Leon Gray
• 193 Jon Morris
• 201 Falcons Checklist
• 207 Cowboys Checklist
• 213 Los Angeles Rams
• 226 Seahawks Checklist
• 228 Redskins Checklist
• 237 Will Harrell
• 243 Tom Sullivan
• 253 Perry Smith
• 268 Louis Carter
• 295 Fred Biletnikoff
• 306 Clark Gaines
• 314 Ed "Too Tall" Jones
• 320 Ray Guy
• 331 Jim Plunkett
• 332 Checklist
• 351 Raymond Chester
• 366 Gregg Bingham
• 371 Bob Jackson
• 372 Jim Mandich
• 373 Frank LeMaster
• 413 Don Strock
• 417 Checklist
• 423 John Ebersole
• 424 James Scott
• 425 Delvin Williams
• 426 Spike Jones
• 427 Harvey Martin
• 430 Isiah Robertson
• 433 Lem Barney
• 445 Harold Jackson
• 465 Jeff Siemon
• 470 Cliff Branch
• 474 Steve Mike-Meyer
• 486 Bobby Thompson
• 489 Reuben Gant
• 493 Ron Jessie
• 498 Randy Logan
• 513 Fred Dryer

Tier II

These can be found pretty frequently, but are not as easy to find as the commons in the set.

• 009 Steve Furness
• 012 Jean Fugett
• 013 Ken Mendenhall
• 014 Sam Adams
• 019 Bob Young
• 020 Wally Chambers
• 022 Larry McCarren
• 023 Horst Muhlmann
• 024 Phil Villapiano
• 026 Ron Howard
• 033 Bob Kuchenberg
• 035 Riley Odoms
• 037 Nick Mike-Mayer
• 038 Bill Lenkaitis
• 042 Rusty Jackson
• 043 Levi Johnson
• 044 Mike McCoy
• 053 Fred Cook
• 054 Freddie Solomon
• 055 John Riggins
• 056 John Bunting
• 059 Billy Johnson
• 062 Jim Otis
• 071 Lenvil Elliott
• 078 Dave Beverly
• 080 Jack Youngblood
• 090 Dan Dierdorf
• 091 Mark Mosley
• 093 Andre Tillman
• 099 Mike Webster
• 102 Effren Herrera
• 105 Jim Marshall
• 106 Paul Naumoff
• 107 Walter White
• 121 Lionel Antoine
• 122 John Skorupan
• 125 Paul Krause
• 131 Ron Saul
• 133 Fred Carr
• 136 Greg Landry
• 142 Marv Bateman
• 149 Dan Pastorini
• 152 Pat McInally
• 154 Cullen Bryant
• 167 Charlie Joiner
• 179 Randy Gradishar
• 183 Mike Boryla
• 196 Marsh White
• 203 Buffalo Bills
• 205 Cincinatti Bengals
• 209 Detroit Lions
• 211 Houston Oilers
• 214 Miami Dolphins
• 217 New Orleans Saints
• 219 New York Jets
• 223 St. Louis Cardinals
• 227 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• 229 Sam Cunningham
• 230 Alan Page
• 236 Karl Chandler
• 238 Clarence Scott
• 244 Larry Brunson
• 258 Troy Archer
• 262 Larry Marshall
• 264 Larry Hand
• 265 Tom Mack
• 271 Stu Voight
• 273 MacArthur Lane
• 278 Nat Moore
• 279 Virgil Livers
• 282 Jon Zook
• 283 Tom DeLeone
• 289 Frank Grant
• 291 Mick Tingelhoff
• 292 Bernard Jackson
• 293 Tom Owen
• 298 Dan Ryczek
• 299 Wayne Moore
• 304 Don Cockroft
• 308 Ralph Perretta
• 309 Wally Hilgenberg
• 312 Jim Cheyunski
• 322 Conrad Dobler
• 323 Chester Marcol
• 329 Brad Dusek
• 330 Joe DeLamielleure
• 333 Lou Piccone
• 337 Sherman Smith
• 338 Dave Green
• 341 John Kolb
• 344 Bob Kowalowski
• 349 Dennis Johnson
• 350 Bill Bergey
• 353 Mike Kadish
• 354 Mark van Eeghen
• 355 LC Greenwood
• 365 Ken Riley
• 369 Diron Talbert
• 370 Lydell Mitchell
• 376 Lynn Dickey
• 383 Bob Chandler
• 384 Rickey Young
• 386 Lyle Alzado
• 387 John Leypoldt
• 391 Vern Holland
• 394 Tony Adams
• 401 Andy Johnson
• 407 Ronnie Coleman
• 409 Pat Fischer
• 410 John Dutton
• 411 Boobie Clark
• 412 Pat Tilley
• 419 Brent McClanahan
• 420 Jerry Sherk
• 441 Doug Sutherland
• 442 Mike Kruczek
• 446 George Jakowenko
• 448 Terry Joyce
• 449 Jim LeClair
• 455 Jim Zorn RB
• 457 Walker Gillette
• 458 Charlie Hall
• 463 James Harris
• 466 John Outlaw
• 468 Bob Moore
• 472 Don Hardeman
• 473 Steve Ramsey
• 475 Gary Garrison
• 477 Neil Clabo
• 479 Darryl Stingley
• 482 David Lee
• 483 Tom Mullen
• 487 Jack Rudnay
• 492 Don Nottingham
• 495 Bill Kilmer
• 497 Bill Van Heusen
• 500 Chuck Foreman
• 501 JT Thomas
• 506 Elvin Bethea
• 508 Joe Reed
• 512 Richard Caster
• 514 Jeff Kinney
• 516 Butch Johnson
• 519 Jack Gregory
• 525 Brian Baschnagel

Tier I

Everything else.

If you have any questions about the 1977 Topps Mexican set please feel free to contact me through my profile page.  I'm always interested in talking about the set or helping people to complete their sets.  Thank you for taking time to read my guide.  I hope it was helpful.