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He's Got It Bad

Edgy DC Nov 09 2009 08:37 AM

Collector auctioning off complete Sports Illustrated collection, with signatures. http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/69540212.html

MFS62 Nov 09 2009 08:48 AM Re: He's Got It Bad

Wow! I never collected them, barely read some of them. I guess those color spreads on the underwater pretzel throw semis from Provo, Utah never really interested me. But there are two I would like to have. The first was the issue before Super Bowl III when the SI football "expert" named Tex Maulle seriously predicted that Baltimore would beat the Jets by the score of 66-0. The second would be the issue in which they reported the results of the game (I'm not sure if they forced Maulle to write it). Later

metirish Nov 09 2009 08:50 AM Re: He's Got It Bad

Crazy stuff.....and expensive.......

Edgy DC Nov 09 2009 08:59 AM Re: He's Got It Bad

And hardly the economy for collectables, I would guess.

Centerfield Nov 09 2009 10:06 AM Re: He's Got It Bad

I wonder if some people have more hours in their day.

Ashie62 Nov 09 2009 04:00 PM Re: He's Got It Bad

Vintage SI's go for about $5-8 regardless of cover..Post 1980 2-3$..the hand signed autos? oye I bid $5000

Kong76 Nov 09 2009 05:52 PM Re: He's Got It Bad

I love stories about overly compulsive collectors. Ash: Vintage SI's go for about $5-8 regardless of cover <<< There are vintage covers that fetch way more than $5-8.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 09 2009 06:50 PM Re: He's Got It Bad

I think his point was that the minimum is 5 to 8 bucks.

Ashie62 Nov 09 2009 08:50 PM Re: He's Got It Bad

Pretty much..you can get Ali-Frazier 1 for 10 bucks

RealityChuck Nov 10 2009 07:58 AM Re: He's Got It Bad

[quote="MFS62"]Wow! I never collected them, barely read some of them. I guess those color spreads on the underwater pretzel throw semis from Provo, Utah never really interested me. But there are two I would like to have. The first was the issue before Super Bowl III when the SI football "expert" named Tex Maulle seriously predicted that Baltimore would beat the Jets by the score of 66-0.

Maule said no such thing. He clearly thought the Colts would win, but did not give a score and seemed to think the 17-point betting line was a bit high.

The second would be the issue in which they reported the results of the game (I'm not sure if they forced Maulle to write it).

Of course Maule wrote it; he was their #1 football writer at the time.

Realistically, it was hard to think that the Jets could beat Baltimore, and the Jets benefited by a lot of good luck, most notably the fact that they were forced due to personal issues to run against Ordell Braase, who had a bad back and was playing in pain and thus ineffective. They also got some good bounces on tipped balls, and help when Morrell didn't see his primary receiver wasn't wide open downfield. But going into the game, no one other than Namath and die-hard Jets fans thought they could pull it off.

Nymr83 Nov 10 2009 06:57 PM Re: He's Got It Bad

when i saw this thread title i thought of the Usher song...