In 1968, Topps produced a product called "Football Patches." The company apparently test marketed the patches but did not sell them widely, so today they are commonly known as 1968 Topps Test Team Patches. The set includes a total of 44 patches: one for each of the 26 NFL and AFL teams of the time, plus 18 patches of letters and numbers. The wrappers for the patches suggested that kids use the patches to create their own uniforms.

The logos that Topps used on the team patches were the same ones they used on the regular issue 1968 Topps football cards. I am not certain that all off them were official team logos. In particular, I have not seen the Lions or Bills logos anywhere but on football cards, and the Bengals logo that Topps used appears to be an abbreviated version of the team's official logo.

Topps also chose strange colors for the patches' backgrounds. Rather than using the teams' official colors, Topps picked seemingly random ones. The Bears logo, for example, appears on a green background, and the Cowboys logo appears on yellow. This makes the logos look kind of weird.

Finally, included in each pack of patches was a black and white team card of an NFL or AFL team. The team cards are known as 1968 Topps Test Team Photos.

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Set	#	Card	Pro Team	Notes	eBay Searches
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	1	1 and 2			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	2	3 and 4			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	3	5 and 6			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	4	7 and 8			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	5	9 and 0			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	6	A and B			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	7	C and D			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	8	E and F			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	9	G and H			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	10	I and W			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	11	J and X			Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	12	Atlanta Falcons	Atlanta Falcons	I believe that Topps got the Falcons logo backward. On everything else it's facing the other direction, forming a capital "F."	Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	13	Baltimore Colts	Baltimore Colts		Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	14	Chicago Bears	Chicago Bears		Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	15	Cleveland Browns	Cleveland Browns	Why an elf to represent the Browns? Because some elf-like creatures are called "Brownies." Vince Grzegorek explains.	Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	16	Dallas Cowboys	Dallas Cowboys	Dallas's cartoon cowboy is known as Cowboy Joe.	Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	17	Detroit Lions	Detroit Lions	I wonder if this was an official Lions logo. I have seen it only on 1961 Fleer and 1968 Topps football cards.	Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	18	Green Bay Packers	Green Bay Packers	The white dots on the Packers logo represent Green Bay and Milwaukee. The Packers played some of their home games in Milwaukee from 1933 to 1994.	Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	19	Los Angeles Rams	Los Angeles Rams		Current Listings Recent Sales
1968 Topps Test Team Patches	20	Minnesota Vikings	Minnesota Vikings		Current Listings Recent Sales