The CFL Alumni Association Legends Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/11/2012
Linebacker Tommie Smith wore this CFL gamer during the 1994 season for the Sacramento Gold Miners, the first American franchise to join the Canadian league. The Gold Miners debuted in 1993, joining the CFL’s West Division after the 1992 World Bowl champion Sacramento Surge were left without a home after the World League of American Football ended its North American presence. California’s capital was the only American team in the 9-team CFL in 1993, but the Gold Miners had company in 1994 when U.S. expansion teams in Baltimore, Shreveport and Las Vegas grew the Canadian league to a dozen teams. The Gold Miners went 9-8-1 in 1994 for a fifth place finish in the West, missing the CFL playoffs for a second straight season. The franchise relocated to San Antonio the following season. Smith’s #55 white Gold Miners game-worn jersey displays Starter Official CFL tagging with a size 48 flag tag on the left front tail. Lots of nice game wear here with black marks on the front shoulders and burns on the numbers on the front where some of the green vinyl is missing. Gold Miners logos on the sleeves are screened-on. There is an unrepaired burn hole to the right of the embroidered Starter logo on the left sleeve and a team repair on the white fabric just above the sleeve seam on the right shoulder. Old CFL logo patch is sewn on the front of the collar seam of this cool gamer from the league’s brief American romance.
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