Simmons Selling His Unlucky Moss Jersey
...posted by Anthony De Rosa...
ESPN columnist and Blogfather, Bill Simmons, is auctioning off his Randy Moss jersey which he has now deemed as “unlucky” in light of Super Bowl XLII, Awful Announcing reports.
My name is Bill Simmons and I write the “Sports Guy” column for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. As I described in my post-Super Bowl column, I forgot to bring my lucky Wes Welker jersey to Arizona for the Pats-Giants game, so I ended up spending $85 on a white replica XL Randy Moss No. 81 jersey at one of the merchandise stands inside the stadium to represent my beloved Pats because so many fans were wearing jerseys at the game. Why Moss? Because it was the last Pats jersey they had available.
You know the rest: The Giants ended up pulling off one of the great upsets in sports history, and as I wrote in that post-game column, “You can currently find that jersey sitting at the bottom of the garbage can in my hotel room. I might take it home and burn it. I haven’t decided yet.”
The money won at the auction will be donated to The Jimmy Fund.
I gotta admit, it was fun watching his reaction after he was so confident his Patriots would roll all over the Giants. A Giants fan should buy the jersey and hang it over Bill’s doorway like the angel of death.
