1970 O-Pee-Chee Sonny Wade #99 CFL Grey Cup MVP Montreal Alouettes GOOD 2

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Sonny Wade #99 CFL Grey Cup MVP Montreal Alouettes GOOD 2 This duplicate 1970 O-Pee-Chee Sonny Wade #99 CFL Grey Cup MVP Montreal Alouettes GOOD 2 is listed honestly as a heavily scratched copy, offered at a deep discount for collectors who care about the name and the history far more than the surface. The photograph presents Wade in the green Alouettes home jersey with number 14 on the chest and red and white sleeve stripes, football held at his hip, staring into the camera on a sunny afternoon, with the oval Montreal logo anchoring the corner. Wade was entering his second season in Montreal when this card was printed, already trusted by head coach Sam Etcheverry to run the offence and to handle the punting duties, and by the end of 1970 he had guided the Alouettes to a Grey Cup title and earned outstanding player honours in the championship game, cementing a reputation that would follow him through a long and celebrated CFL career in which he became one of the signature quarterbacks in franchise history. Collectors of quarterback cards, Grey Cup history and Montreal football all converge on this single number in the 115 card checklist, which is why even well worn copies continue to find homes. This is a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, offering the biography in English and again in French with the green cartoon panel revealing in both languages that Sonny's real name is Jesse, an unmistakable marker of authentic domestic O-Pee-Chee printing. the front is heavily scratched, with multiple long diagonal gouges and abrasion lines cutting across the green jersey, the face area and the background, visible immediately in the photos and constituting the dominant defect on the card; beyond the scratching all four corners are softened with the upper right and lower left clearly rounded and frayed, edge chipping is evident along the right and bottom borders, the black back shows heavy chipping along the top edge and down the right side with white showing well into the printed border, and centering measures roughly sixty five to thirty five left to right. There is no writing, no staining and no paper loss, and the card lies flat. Heavy surface scratching of this severity caps any conservative estimate at the GOOD level, making this a low cost placeholder or a display piece for a Grey Cup themed collection. Grade Estimate: GOOD 2