Hi Jim, that was Gary Falin's article in WCI 25 and he painted the football player caricature in WCI 26.
Maybe if you looked at Steve Prescott's book "Carving Blockheads" , one is a football player, it would provide you with a pattern for a caricature and by just changing the colour combinations to match the NFL teams each son supports would provide 4 different caricatures or just different numbers or home and away sweater colour combinations if they all support the same team , it would at least ensure everyone got the same quality gift.

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Then no one can say Daddy loves me better that you, ahh peace and harmony on christmas day.
Just added a scan of the books cover, it's a Fox Chapel so I guess it's ok.

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OG