1990 Pro Set Santa Claus (front)
1990 Pro Set Santa Claus (back)
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#42
Non-Sports Explosion

Santa Claus

1990 · Pro Set
Overall rank
#42 of 50
Year
1990
Brand
Pro Set
Sport
non sport
Card type
oddball
Wanted Talked about
Raw
$2.00
$1.88 - $2.12
PSA 8
$23.32
$21.92 - $24.72
PSA 9
$69.98
$65.80 - $74.16
PSA 10
$184
$166 - $202
Fair Market Value · 7-day winsorized median · as of 2026-07-21
Price history

Population Report

Grading census
Total graded
1,761
PSA graded only
PSA 10 population
101
4.8% overall gem rate
Grade distribution · PSA 1 to 10 (all graders)
Grade 10
101
Grade 9
435
Grade 8
695
Grade 7
290
Grade 6
158
Grade 5
47
Grade 4
14
Grade 3
2
Grade 2
2
Grade 1
0

Why It Belongs

No card in the museum is a purer oddball. Pro Set slipped a Santa Claus card into its 1990 football release around the holidays, no player, no team, no logic, just Santa in a Green Bay Packers uniform. It belongs here because the junk-wax era's excess produced things like this: a football card of Santa, inserted by a company printing so much product it could afford to be silly. It's a cult favorite because it makes no sense. In a set of forgettable commons, the Santa card is the one people actually remember.

What Every Kid Remembered

Santa in shoulder pads. You'd be flipping through your endless stack of 1990 Pro Set commons and suddenly there's Santa Claus in a Packers uniform, and it stopped you cold. It made no sense and that made it hilarious. Kids showed it around, nobody knew why it existed, and that mystery was the fun. Pro Set was the cheap set everyone had, so the Santa card was a little surprise buried in the pile. It became the one card from the box you'd actually save.

The Hobby Story

Pro Set included a Santa Claus card in its 1990 football product as a holiday oddity, showing Santa in a Green Bay Packers uniform with no player or team logic behind it. It became one of the era's cult inserts, trading at $3-15 depending on condition. Pro Set actually issued Santa cards across a couple of years as promotional/holiday pieces, adding minor confusion for collectors. The value is novelty and nostalgia. It endures as the definitive example of junk-wax whimsy, a football card of Santa that nobody asked for and everybody remembers.

Versions & Variations

Pro Set issued more than one Santa Claus card across its releases (different years and promotional versions), so identifying the specific 1990 issue matters. No famous error on the card itself. Condition is the value variable. There are no scarce color parallels. The main collector task is distinguishing which Santa card you have, since the various Pro Set Santas differ in design and scarcity.

How to Identify It

The 1990 Pro Set Santa Claus card shows Santa in a Green Bay Packers uniform on the front with Pro Set branding and no standard player nameplate. The back carries a holiday-themed or promotional message rather than player stats. Confirm the Packers-uniform Santa and the 1990 Pro Set design, and cross-check against Pro Set's other Santa issues to identify the exact year and version.