1970 O-Pee-Chee Terry Evanshen #98 Montreal Alouettes VG-3

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Terry Evanshen #98 Montreal Alouettes VG-3 This 1970 O-Pee-Chee Terry Evanshen card is your chance to own the card of one of the most remarkable figures in Canadian football history, a receiver whose story reached far beyond the hash marks of the CFL and into living rooms across the country. Evanshen arrived in Montreal from Utah State and immediately became the emotional engine of an Alouettes squad that, later in this very 1970 season, would climb from the cellar to win the Grey Cup, the franchise's first championship in over two decades. The reverse of the card celebrates his 1967 season, when he was named the Canadian Football League's Outstanding Canadian player, an award that confirmed what Montreal fans already knew: the small, speedy flanker from Niagara Falls played every down like it was his last. Evanshen earned multiple CFL All-Star selections and piled up more than 9,000 career receiving yards before a devastating 1988 car crash left him with profound amnesia, a tragedy he transformed into one of Canada's greatest comeback stories as a broadcaster, motivational speaker and the subject of the television film The Man Who Lost Himself. Collectors prize the 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL issue because it revived Canadian football cards after a hiatus of more than five years, and the set is immediately recognizable for its bilingual backs produced for the Canadian market. This example carries the genuine Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back with the biography printed in English and French above the olive green cartoon panel, and it is not a puzzle back. a light diagonal crease runs through the upper left sky area of the front, breaking the surface only subtly and showing best under angled light, the corners show light, even wear with modest whitening at the top right, the edges remain clean with only a whisper of roughness along the top, the glossy front retains strong colour apart from the crease, centering is respectable with a marginally wider left border, and the black reverse is bright and unmarked apart from minor corner touches. Because any crease is a disqualifying flaw for higher raw grades regardless of how faint, we estimate this card conservatively at VG-3, an honest assessment that leaves room for the card's otherwise clean presentation to impress a stricter third-party opinion. Grade Estimate: VG-3