Jameis Winston (QB Browns)

[ScriptOhio]

 

[pnuts34]

 

[kujirakira]

Hmm, still a couple days too early for the final Committee polls...

 

[Oh8ch]

Talk about illiterate - skrong is spelled with a "k".

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

Talk about illiterate - skrong is spelled with a "k".

You should have won the internet yesterday.

 

[TampaBuckeyes]

So. Jameis is saying his autographs were forged. If that's true it would wreck the authenticators name. I expect the authenticators will now go to great length to prove that they are legit. This is going to be fun to watch. Honestly from the reports the entire process they went to to get the autographs sounds fishy and I wouldn't be surprised if they were face. I am just going to enjoy what comes out of this.

 

[cincibuck]

Skrong: What you have to be to play football as compared to holding a sign to insult someone who can play football.

 

[kujirakira]

So. Jameis is saying his autographs were forged. If that's true it would wreck the authenticators name. I expect the authenticators will now go to great length to prove that they are legit. This is going to be fun to watch. Honestly from the reports the entire process they went to to get the autographs sounds fishy and I wouldn't be surprised if they were face. I am just going to enjoy what comes out of this.

This seems like a surefire way to shoot yourself in the foot.
If they were forging autographs, nothing would've happened to Gurley and instead we'd be talking about a federal investigation into forgers.
So it's pretty much already established that these dealers are legit. They do have access to athletes and pay them fair compensation for their autographs, even if NCAA doesn't like it. Presumably they have no interest in cooperating with the NCAA, but if the athlete attempts to claim these products are frauds and ergo the entire business is a fraud ... the seller's only recourse is to prove that the athlete's signatures are legit in the public domain in order to maintain their own credibility and business. As much as they probably don't care for the NCAA, an athlete that's taken their money and then attempted to sink their business is just making themselves public enemy #1. The gloves come off and proof -- be it video or bank records will surface sooner rather than later.

 

[mendensa]

If the Bucks can get a season stripped from the record books for some discounted tats, I hope the NCAA wipes the last 2 years away from the CrimiNOLES for what Winston is pulling. Kid just doesn't get it. Learn to keep your mouth shut, son.

 

[scarletmike]

I hope this is what finally shuts the lid on this kid's college career. He had better be damn sure there's no way to link any large amount of sequential items to a single signing session and exchange of money, because otherwise, he's as good as done.

 

[H3ISMAN]

Winston: Autographs aren't mine
http://espn.go.com/college-football...ficials-signature-was-forged-according-report

Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said last month that Winston told him he had not accepted any money for autographs.

 

[Dryden]

JSA may well be screwed if the Outside the Lines report is true that they bought the items discounted after PSA rejected them in February.

 

[ScriptOhio]

So. Jameis is saying his autographs were forged. If that's true it would wreck the authenticators name. I expect the authenticators will now go to great length to prove that they are legit. This is going to be fun to watch. Honestly from the reports the entire process they went to to get the autographs sounds fishy and I wouldn't be surprised if they were face. I am just going to enjoy what comes out of this.

Jameis Winston says some autographs are forgeries, source tells Post

Winston sat down with FSU compliance officials one month ago to look at the memorabilia being sold online bearing his signature after ESPN reported that thousands of authenticated items were for sale. He was able to point out many signatures that he said were forged and many items that had his signature that he knew he had not signed.

“When he looked at the initial website mentioned by ESPN, he looked at multiple things and said that wasn’t his signature,” said the source.

Winston viewed items such as jerseys, mini-helmets and photos bearing his signature.

ESPN reported Tuesday that one authentication company is questioning the legitimacy of thousands of items being sold with Winston’s signature.

Entire article: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s...-post-jameis-winston-says-autographs-a/nh9fq/

It will be interesting to see how this plays out:

 

[DiamondBuck]

Interesting article on this shady business:


Autograph Fakery: Two Firms Monopolize a Lucrative Business
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2014-03-27/news/fake-autographs-lucrative-business/full/

Today, few autographs are bought or sold without the blessing of either Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) or its competitor,James Spence Authentication (JSA). Business is so good that they use garbage cans to hold the cash they collect from reviews at hobby conventions...

...But there seems to be no ceiling to PSA and JSA's abilities. In 2010, a dealer submitted the "signature" of Cheetah, the chimpanzee that was purported to have appeared in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan serials of the 1930s. Despite the likelihood that they had no exemplars on file for primates, JSA deemed the scrawl authentic.

As it turns out, Cheetah was an impostor whose owner duped the public before a 2008 article uncovered the truth: Weissmuller's chest-thumping costar was long deceased.

"I don't remember the particulars of that," James Spence says of his endorsement. "I'm not prepared to answer that. I'd have to refresh my memory. I think it was done tongue-in-cheek...

 

[ScriptOhio]

Re: Winston sat down with FSU compliance officials (photo below) one month ago to look at the memorabilia being sold online bearing his signature after ESPN reported that thousands of authenticated items were for sale. He was able to point out many signatures that he said were forged and many items that had his signature that he knew he had not signed.

Of course you realize the odds of FSU compliance officials identifying any violations that could get Winston and/or free Shoes in deep do-do with the NCAA are about the same as them actually finding Amelia Earhart, Bigfoot, and/or the Loch Ness Monster.