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In a 2008 exchange with Skiba plaintiff Eric Isenberg asked whether an Eli Manning game-used helmet and jersey were “the ones eli asked you to make up because he didnt [sic] want to give up the real stuff?” Said Skiba in response, “BS ones, you are correct.” |
Under what rule? There have been 19 draft pick punishments for NFL violations since 1980, including the Giants 10 spot drop last year for walkie talkie use.
All of those instances involved on-field infractions/cheating (spy gate ,deflate gate, walkie talkie use, pumping in crowd noise), tampering with players or contract/salary cap violations.
Unless I'm missing something none have been for civil issues related to memorabilia.
Am I missing something?
But I have no idea why people find it so hard to believe, just because he's charitable or seems like a good person that he wouldn't willingly dupe memorabilia dealers/consumers.
I can absolutely buy it, that due to the inconvenience of it Eli just saying to pass off any old equipment as Eli Manning game used and furthermore because IMO the primary consumers of memorabilia are probably middle aged men and most memorabilia dealers are slimy salespeople, many people probably don't care about it even if he did it.
Some may even feel like he's doing gods work. All involved probably felt like it was a long shot they'd ever get caught. I wouldn't be surprised if most teams do this.
But no idea why people would dismiss it as impossible.
the media and fans would be taking a different view of this situation
the media and fans would be taking a different view of this situation
Because of his skin color? Or because he's not a NY Giant? Or some other reason?
Love to hear this answer, I'm sure it will be brilliant.
It's such a crappy move, and totally unnecessary. The whole thing stinks. I hope there's a logical explanation and the quarterback who's a millionaire 100s of time over thought this was a good call.
Just hoping it gets resolved quickly, isn't a blemish on the franchise or Eli, and in no way interrupts our upcoming Super Bowl season.
That's not always true either. Memorabilia hounds are creeps.
Nobody's shedding tears if that obnoxious jerk who goes after every milestone home run ball gets jilted. Guilty or not, he's still won awards for his philanthropic work and has a kids' hospital wing with his name on it.
I'm really hoping Eli didn't do the things alleged in the complaint.
If he wants to keep stuff so be it. No need to get tangled into this.
If it actually went down as is alluded to in the complaint. He's very, very lucky to not have been charged.
Imagine that going to trial. Imagine the very unlikely, but possibility of him serving time.
We're talking orders of magnitude more disruptive than anything OBJ has dreamed of pulling.
And if he says he had no hand in it, I have zero reason to not believe him, he has been the nothing but a pro’s pro since he stepped into the league.
The memorabilia company is either dumb or incompetent to not know the difference between a game jersey and game worn jersey (I’m sure every player has more than one jersey for game day just in case)...
Unless it was a whole other level of fraudulent, fabricating regular jerseys to make them appear game worn... that sounds almost criminal considering the value of these game worn jersey now a days.
Curious to see how this ends... Sort of suprised the Giants or Manning himself did not settle out of court by now just to make this go away already...
That's the grey area.
Now, if it's a Superbowl jersey that he had doctored to look like the one he wore in the actual Superbowl, that's another story.
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p.s.--I wouldn't expect the Giants to lose a draft pick over it. More likely the Giants would be fined and Eli would be fined and suspended for two to four games (assuming there isn't a logical explanation).