The Deflategate Football Card of the Day™ is …
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor | Commentary
As an NFL coach, Bill Belichick doesn’t have too many football cards — and he doesn’t have any game-used memorabilia cards.
But this Tom Brady 2002 Absolute Memorabilia game-used football card?
Well, it just feels special today, doesn’t it? It’s our Deflategate Football Card of the Day™ … and it’s awesome.
Tell us what you think of the card in the comments below.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
The ball in his hands doesn’t look official or to be regulation size on the card.
Bill 3 time offender. Spygate, Ramgate, and Deflategate. Please have a opposing viewpoint card of the Sea hawks so we all can remember they play against the Pats. I almost forgot. It must feel really good to fly so far under the radar. It’s so odd to have minimalized reports on what they’re doing.
I can’t stand how anything related to scandal, any scandal of any kind, has the suffix “-gate” to it. It’s so uninspiring and uncreative and so dated. I heard someone refer to this deflated ball scandal as “Ballghazi”. I definitely think I like that one better than “Deflategate”
I agree “gate” is weak — it gets used way too often in card-world conspiracies. But that’s what many are calling this.
However, at the same time, the other phrase was a “no” to me because it evokes something where people died:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack
Never been a fan of “game used” football pieces…they died for a reason…(Topps Prime doesn’t count)
The one I heard that made me laugh was “DE-FLATE-TRIOTS”
$75.00 on eBay.