The CFL Alumni Association Legends Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/11/2012
Deceased HOF linebacker Ray Nettles wore this B.C. Lions gamer in the mid-1970s. Ray was named rookie of the year in 1972 and he won the CFL’s Outstanding Lineman honors in 1973. He was a five-time CFL All-Star, including each of his first three seasons with the Lions from 1972-74, as well as with Toronto in 1977 and Hamilton in 1978. Elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2005, Ray died of cancer at the age of 60 in 2009. This circa-1975 Lions white jersey has heat-screened numbers and stripes on the sleeves. Game wear includes team repairs, burns and blue marks on both shoulders and an unrepaired hole below the number 51 on the right sleeve. There is another sewing fix on the left side of the “5” on the back and the numbers on the front display more marks. There are no signs of a nameplate change on this vintage gamer which displays two different shades of sewn-on grey twill letters. The “N” and both “T”s are darker grey and both “E”s and the “L” and “S” are very light grey, though none of the letters appear to have been changed. Peculiar, for sure, though CFL jerseys are known to have been recycled and re-used which may have something to do with the odd-looking nameplate on this gamer worn by one of the Lions’ all-time greats.
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