Coaching and Post-football Career
After his playing days ended, Parker moved into coaching. Parker coached the BC Lions for part of the 1969 season and all of 1970, before moving on to the front office as general manager the next year. He stayed as general manager until being fired in 1975.
Parker coached the Eskimos from 1983 until resigning for health reasons two games into the 1987 CFL season.
After leaving football, Parker was an executive with the Interprovincial Steel & Pipe Corporation, Ltd.
On November 7, 2006, Parker died in the early morning hours at a local Edmonton hospital at age 74 due to throat cancer.
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