1970 O-Pee-Chee Gordon Judges #107 CFL Rookie Card Montreal Alouettes GOOD-VG 2.5

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Gordon Judges #107 CFL Rookie Card Montreal Alouettes GOOD-VG 2.5 Listed transparently as a creased copy, this 1970 O-Pee-Chee Gordon Judges #107 CFL Rookie Card Montreal Alouettes GOOD-VG 2.5 is the budget option for anyone who wants a card connected to the Alouettes squad that captured the 1970 Grey Cup without paying mid grade money. The image is the same striking shot of Judges in the green Montreal home jersey with red and white sleeve stripes, number 61 showing clearly, hands up and knees bent in a defensive tackle ready position on a bright practice field with trees in the distance. Judges arrived from the Bramalea Satellites and became a fixture of the Montreal interior line, and the back text calls him the biggest man of the Als Front Four at six foot three and two hundred and sixty pounds, a genuine Canadian non import presence in a role usually filled by American imports during that era of CFL football. The 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL release was printed in London, Ontario and distributed nationally, and its 115 card checklist is now a cornerstone of Canadian sports card collecting, valued for its bold photography, its black backs and its bilingual cartoons. This is a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, with the full English biography mirrored by a French translation and the green cartoon panel captioned in both languages, exactly as domestic O-Pee-Chee production demanded. the card carries a crease, a defined fold line travelling through the lower left quadrant of the photo and continuing onto the black back where it reads clearly against the dark ink, and there is additional wrinkling along the same path; all four corners are softened with the lower right clearly rounded and lightly frayed, the surface shows scuffing across the green jersey, and the edges are chipped along the bottom and right borders. The back shows substantial black chipping at the top edge and down the right side with white flecking well into the printed area, and centering sits around sixty five to thirty five left to right. There is no writing, staining or paper loss. A through crease of this nature places any conservative estimate in the GOOD to VG band, so this copy is priced as a player collector piece or set filler rather than a condition purchase. Grade Estimate: GOOD