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Mike Holmes (wide receiver)

American football player (born 1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6847293 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael Raphael Holmes (born November 18, 1950) is an American former professional football player who was a safety and wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL), Canadian Football League (CFL), and United States Football League (USFL).

Holmes started his career in the NFL, playing three seasons, mainly for the San Francisco 49ers. He then went to the CFL where he played six seasons for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was a CFL All Star in 1980. He finished his career with the Washington Federals of the USFL in 1983.

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“Mike Holmes (wide receiver)” enters the record as american football player (born 1950). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mike, Holmes and wide can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1980, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mike, Holmes and wide.
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“Mike Holmes (wide receiver)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mike, Holmes and wide provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6847293. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1980 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Holmes (wide receiver)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.