Question by heyo619: Packing sports memorabilia?
We are moving in a few months and want to get ahead on our packing. We have various items of sports memorabilia, but I am particularly concerned about the helmets. If I pack them as is in their cases, they would rattle around too much. I want to know the best way to pack them safely without compromising the integrity of the autographs. I don’t know if bubble wrap would lift them off or damage them in any way.

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Answer by t!to
use peanuts
(styerfome)

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Opening a full, sealed, 8 box case of 2011 Topps Inception football cards. There are 7 cards per pack, 1 pack per box. 2 Autographs and 1 Memorabilia Card per Pack. Great looking cards with On-Card autos of every player in the set, as well as Patch Autographs with possible Logoshields, printing plates, and more. Thanks For Watching.

Jackson & Byers Army Strong Zone


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U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program strength and conditioning coach Sgt. 1st Class William Jackson and WCAP Greco-Roman wrestler Sgt. 1st Class Dremiel Byers autograph miniature footballs inside the All-Army Sports tent at the Army Strong Zone outside the Alamodome on the eve of the 2011 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs

Jackson & Byers


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U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program strength and conditioning coach Sgt. 1st Class William Jackson and WCAP Greco-Roman wrestler Sgt. 1st Class Dremiel Byers autograph miniature footballs inside the All-Army Sports tent at the Army Strong Zone outside the Alamodome on the eve of the 2011 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs

Question by Immiesq: Which is a better collectible for a sports fan, an autographed jersey or autographed helmet???

The person the gift is for is a huge NY GIants fan. He mentioned that he wanted a signed super bowl jersey that he could frame with a signed photo that he already purchased. When I started looking, there weren’t any available. In addition, I wasn’t going to be able to give it to him already framed in a way that he could later mount the photo with it. So, instead the signed helmet was suggested by some vendors I contacted. I was told that the helmets are a big hit with fans and that they are more valuable b/c the jersey loses value when mounted to the frame. Right when I got comfortable with the idea of the helmet, some of the jerseys were released…. so now I’m stuck. He already has a different signed jersey in his memorabilia collection, but no helmets…???

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Answer by 3737
jersey can display better than a helmet

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Lieutenant (SEAL) Geoff Reeves, a member of the U.S. Navy Parachute Demonstration Team Leap Frog gives an autograph to a young fan at the Peoria Sports Complex in Peoria, Arizona after the teamís jump. The festivities are in conjunction with Phoenix Navy Week. Twenty such weeks are planned this year in cities throughout the U.S., arranged by the Navy Office of Community Outreach (NAVCO). NAVCO is a new unit tasked with enhancing the Navy’s brand image in areas with limited exposure to the Navy. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer’s Mate Gary Ward

Will Shortz and Robert Roberts visit our club!


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Last night we were fortunate to have Will and Robert visit our club. Will is on a quest to visit more TT clubs than anyone else. In 2009, he was up to 60 US clubs & 84 total. In 2010, his number was up to 113 US clubs in 31 states.

Will loves the sport so much that he recently opened his own club in NY. Robert manages the club and is a coach there. He’s is a highly rated player (a former national player of Barbados, currently #43 in the nation) and it was amazing to play him. Didn’t matter how hard you hit it, he got it back without much effort; and he put some wicked spin on the ball. Half the time I didn’t even know what was on it, the other half I could see the spin but couldn’t handle it! Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to play Will. They could only stay for a couple hours before driving on to Indy, and there were plenty of people who wanted to play and talk to both guys.

I couldn’t dig up my copy of USATT magazine with Will’s travel article in it. But I did bring a copy of a Best of NYT’s Crosswords and Will was kind enough to autograph it for my brother, who is a xword freak.

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• who is robert roberts and will shortz
• who is robert roberts from barbados

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Scene of the crimes


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This Is Stupid


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Day 8 of 365 (Year Two)

No, not the shot!

Stupid is a dragon who apparently wanted a closer look at the camera. I’ve had Stupid since September 18, 1999. Stupid is a Big E Massachusetts Red Dragon. He isn’t very smart, in case you didn’t get that from his name. I’ve kept him so long for sentimental reasons.

On September 16, 1999 myself and two friends left Baltimore for Boston. We were headed up to Massachusetts to go to the Big E, which is more or less a multi-state State Fair. The reason we were going was to see Chris LeDoux perform in concert.

Now normally a trip from Baltimore to Boston will take me about seven hours to drive. This particular trip took about thirteen hours. The reason behind the abnormally long trip was that September 16, 1999 also marks the day that Hurricane Floyd hit Maryland. We left Baltimore at exactly the same hour that Floyd hit us. The hurricane basically followed us up the coast. It was probably one of the worst drives I have ever undertaken.

We were headed to Boston, which happens to be at the opposite end of the state from the Big E because I have family in Boston. The plan was to get a hotel, see my family on the 17th and then drive to the Big E on Saturday morning to catch the concert Saturday night. If it had just been me I would have just stayed with family, but with the other two along that was a bit much to ask.

Finding a hotel that weekend proved to be rather difficult. There was a race or major sporting event in town that weekend and every decent hotel room in Boston and the surrounding area was booked. We ended up in this dive hotel that had residents who lived there year round and I believe they also had certain rooms that they rented by the hour if you know what I mean. The actual room was as bad inside as the hotel was outside. The bathroom was the nicest part if you can believe that. It was also as big as the bedroom and felt a hell of a lot more spacious due to the lack of a bed and cot. Once the suitcases were in the room, there was almost no floor space in the bedroom. It was awful, but in a funny way it helped add to the whole road trip experience.

We woke up the next day to find that Floyd had passed and the weather had cleared. We ate dinner with my grandparents and were off to the Big E the next day. We bumped into some hometown friends at the concert who we didn’t know were going to be there which was kind of cool. After the concert, which was amazing, we hung out at the fair and that is where I won stupid.

After the concert we headed back to Boston, but stopped about halfway there at some hole in the wall bar. We were apparently the biggest thing to happen to this bar in years. As a group we can be quite entertaining and we had a blast with the regulars, staff and owners. We had the furniture moved and taught a bunch of them how to line dance. If I remember correctly, most of the regulars and staff didn’t have to pay for a drink all night as we kept buying them round after round.

We hated to leave, but closing time is closing time. One of the friends we bumped into asked if she could ride home with us as she was the odd gal out with her group. We said sure, not remembering the luggage and our new friend Stupid. It was a rather interesting trip back to the hotel and the ride home was rather packed with Stupid taking up more than his fair share of the back seat, but we had fun regardless and the trip was a lot quicker than the ride up had been.

Stupid got his name because stupid was the word of the weekend. The hotel and ride up had been so bad that the only word we could use to describe it was stupid. The event that booked all the other hotels was stupid, the bathroom being so large compared to the room was stupid. The people on the roads driving through a hurricane like it was a sunny day were stupid. Anything "bad" that happened on that trip was stupid. The word stuck with us all weekend as sort of an inside joke based on our adventurous trip up to Boston and the hotel and thus our new friend was named Stupid.

There were a few non-stupid events. Seeing my family, bumping into our friends, the bar and the concert were definitely NOT stupid. The most non-stupid event, however, was getting to actually talk to Chris LeDoux. After the show my buddy walked over to the bathrooms which just happened to be right near where the band was setting up to do autographs. He called me over when he saw that and we got to meet the man himself.

It was a very memorable trip and one that I’m not likely to forget which is why Stupid still lives with me.

If you are still with me and actually read this whole thing, thanks for taking the time!