Surely you can't be serious. Why would they give them gold colored football pants that the players would then give to their mothers (I believe that is a common occurrence). I think anyone remotely knowledgeable knew it was a jewelry type deal.

Fly4Fun;733715 wrote:Surely you can't be serious. Why would they give them gold colored football pants that the players would then give to their mothers (I believe that is a common occurrence). I think anyone remotely knowledgeable knew it was a jewelry type deal.

So she could wash them!! Lol

If they were real football pants my mom would have told me, I earned them and I can wash them.

thavoice;733685 wrote:Was anyone else surprised they are actually just little, very little, basically jewelry thing-a-majigs? I always thought they were were gold colored football pants they got.

I think they should just rename them gold charm pendants because that is what they really are.

LOL!!!

karen lotz;733637 wrote:Probably doesn't mean anything, but the guy who was on Pawn Stars said he got them from a private collector and both Washington and Worthington are friends with Ed Rife.

They are facebook friends with Ed Rife.

Where are the haters at that cried about players not having respect for tradition blah blah blah when the tattoo scandal came out? Some of you guys' hate for TP is sad.

BTW, IF anyone thinks things like this are NOT a common occurrance around EVERY college program, your kidding yourself. No, that doesn't make it right or whatever. But again, I have NO doubt current players, former players are selling quite a bit of their stuff on a regular basis. As I said, back in the 80's, I bought a pair of once used turf shoes and a watch that a player had gotten fro playing in a bowl game. I had/have no idea if it was a violation back then, or not. But don't kid yourself, this stuff goes on often. Yes, its a rule. A fairly stupid one at that IMO as it is THEIR'S to do what they want. But rules are rules, no question.

A guy I work with has a daughter who is dating an offensive lineman who plays at Pitt. He bought the watch from him that they got for going to the Compass Bowl or whatever the fuck they played in. Obviously the kid is a piece of shit.