1970 O-Pee-Chee Corey Colehour #49 Bilingual Back Edmonton Eskimos CFL EX 5

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Corey Colehour #49 Bilingual Back Edmonton Eskimos CFL EX 5 Standing six feet five inches in an era when quarterbacks of that height were genuine curiosities, Corey Colehour cuts an unmistakable figure on this 1970 O-Pee-Chee Corey Colehour card, ball cocked behind his helmet in a classic passing pose. The 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL set of 115 cards is adored for transplanting the clean Topps-style design of 1969 into Canadian stadiums, and this single is one of the most distinctive portraits in the Eskimos group, pairing a NFL pedigree with the green and gold of Edmonton. Colehour's path to the CFL ran through the big league: a North Dakota product, he joined the Eskimos after time with the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams, and the reverse cartoon notes he played in the 1967 Pecan Bowl, a bowl-game breadcrumb that college football historians love to trace. As a tall, strong-armed passer he gave Edmonton a look that offences of the period simply were not built to handle, and the quiet praise of his on-card bio, good passer, undersells the novelty of a former Ram and Falcon quarterbacking in the Canadian game. The reverse is the issue's signature Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, not a puzzle back, with twin English and French texts, the green cartoon box, and the PRINTED IN CANADA imprint that collectors use to verify authenticity at a glance. this single presents with clean, lightly handled corners showing only faint blunting, a whisper of edge wear along the right border, bright uncreased surfaces with the original gloss intact, and centering at roughly 55/45 horizontally with even top and bottom margins, while the black reverse shows mild corner touch but nothing beyond the trivial. Our conservative read is EX 5, an honest mid-grade that photographs beautifully and slots into a set build without the graded-case premium. The Falcons and Rams connection also gives this card crossover appeal for NFL team collectors, who frequently chase the Canadian issues that preserve players whose American careers left only a statistical footprint. Add the towering six-foot-five frame, the classic throwing pose, and the bilingual reverse, and you have one of the most distinctive quarterback cards of the entire vintage CFL era, equally at home in an Eskimos set build or a Rams and Falcons specialty collection, which only widens the pool of admirers for this single. Clean, original, unenhanced examples like this are increasingly difficult to source at any grade in today's market. Grade Estimate: EX 5