🏈 clay travis up to his crap again - banned bama booster has bama gear business

[TerryP]

that just goes to show you that clay only deals in half-truths and is only worried about the part that will get him more callers/listeners to his show.

Since I read the article last night and then looked over it again a few minutes ago I noticed he's added a few things.

One of them is this: (Update: FOXSports.com reached out to T-Town to verify the correct spelling of Albetar's last name, which T-Town declined to do before requesting not to be contacted regarding this matter. Later, we noticed T-Town Gallery had pulled the jersey image mentioned above, which can still be seen here. Also, links to gloves worn by Vinnie Sunseri and TJ Yeldon were removed.)

Verify the spelling of his name?

In the same article he quotes a paragraph from the letter sent from UA to Tom. It has his name included in the letter. And they call to "verify his name?"

Good lord...this is more entertaining than it was in 2010-2011.

 

[BamaFan334]

Where are you pulling there's over 100 items for sale from Yeldon or Cooper?

Go in his store and you'll see a ton of pictures, jerseys, helmets, gloves, cleats and framed pictures signed by these guys. A lot more than that website is showing. 100 was simply a number thrown out to show it's not simply one or two, but I'm willing to bet $100 there are more than 50 items in that store with one or both of their names on, I've seen them first hand before I graduated and moved to Atlanta this past Summer.

 

[DustyG]

I know a guy who used to trade in player autographs. He'd get every kid in his neighborhood, church youth group, little league, whatever and give them $5 each to wait in line and get an autograph on A-Day or fan day or any other time players were doing autograph sessions.

 

[JoshB]

Shit like this is whats gonna end the fan day stuff. What do u think the good majority of those ppl do with the autographs? Always be suspicious when a player asks the fan who they want the autograph made out to and they say "dont worry about it." Nico told me thats why he started insisted to make the autograph out to someone his senior year, they cant sell em as easy if it has someone elses name on it.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

The guy is a cancer, will not go in his store, walked right on by it when he had it in the University mall. Before the guy had issues, Mid 2000's my kid got a few autographs from some players he had standing in front of his store, the players seemed really ticked when they were signing. Had my son with me shopping in the mall and he saw a few players and wanted their autographs, he went up to them they obliged which i thought was pretty cool. Terrence Cody was one of them and he was real nice to my son.

 

[sean]

Shit like this is whats gonna end the fan day stuff. What do u think the good majority of those ppl do with the autographs? Always be suspicious when a player asks the fan who they want the autograph made out to and they say "dont worry about it." Nico told me thats why he started insisted to make the autograph out to someone his senior year, they cant sell em as easy if it has someone elses name on it.

he better not be the cause of ending fan day. i love fan day! i go specifically to get autographs (for myself, not to sell of for any other reason). and if he winds up causing the end of that.....well.....let's just say that i won't be happy.

 

[JoshB]

he better not be the cause of ending fan day. i love fan day! i go specifically to get autographs (for myself, not to sell of for any other reason). and if he winds up causing the end of that.....well.....let's just say that i won't be happy.

Saban has already mentioned thinking about ending it because of this shit and because of all the ppl that sell it on Ebay. I would love to get autographs from all the players but you watch all the grown ass adults running and pushing ppl to get first in line. Most of these ppl plan to sell the crap.

 

[BamaFan334]

Saban has already mentioned thinking about ending it because of this shit and because of all the ppl that sell it on Ebay. I would love to get autographs from all the players but you watch all the grown ass adults running and pushing ppl to get first in line. Most of these ppl plan to sell the crap.

I would be pretty upset as well. I took my little girl last year, she was two, and she actually made TJ Yeldon smile when she said Roll Tide and gave him a hug for signing her mini helmet. It is straight pathetic watching grown ass men and women hauling ass down field to get autographs and turning around selling them on eBay like mentioned. I almost had to drop a grown woman because she about ran my kid over and had no remorse. Luckily I resorted to cussing her out instead of getting physical. Don't get me wrong, I would never hit a woman, but when my kids are involved all bets are off as to how I'll react. Anyways, I wish it were easier for us normal and dedicated fans and our kids. It's all about the kids for me and I hate to see them lose the opportunity to meet the players we watch every Saturday and talk about every single day.

 

[JoshB]

Yeah its ppl like that, that ruin it for everyone else. Didnt South Carolina end what they were doing like this because of someone selling Clowney autographs? I just happened to post a picture of my autographed Julio Jones football on facebook one time and some dude offered me $50 for it on Facebook and im like WTF?! So i look on Ebay and they were selling em on there for like $150 so I can only imagine what he was planning on doing. Its gotten ridiculous.

 

[cartag]

I have "autographed" framed photos of two former star players (one with Coach Saban) in my den right now. I paid $20 a piece for them in the frames with a photocopied "certificate of authenticity" on the back of each. They are both obviously reproduced by the seller, who has a booth is a local antique mall. I knew they weren't originals when I bought them. I got what I paid for. How easy would it be to take more care with the "authenticity" record and sell junk to fools for the price of real memorabilia?

 

[PhillyGirl]

Hope ass clowns like this guy don't ruin the fun for the rest of us ..

 

[TerryP]

I've got one question about how this all ends.

Who ends up being trolled the hardest? The Bama fans who get all up in arms about another Travis piece he's decided to recirculate from three years ago or rival fans who are getting their hopes up, again.

There's a lot of crap with this story and just as much in the article itself. As example, before the "disclaimer" (if you will allow me to use that term) was added to the article about Fox Sports trying to contact Tom to verify the spelling of his name, the article read as follows:

Well, our old buddy Tom has a new website and a new business — he's dropped the suits. Now he just sells Crimson Tide memorabilia.So what's on the front page of the website?

Autographed jerseys from AJ McCarron, TJ Yeldon and Amari Cooper. Two of these guys are current players for the Crimson Tide.

That's an NCAA violation.

Displaying jerseys in this manner is also a direct violation of the requirements Alabama laid out in this disassociation letter it sent nearly three years ago to Albetar.
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No, it's not. It's not even close to being an NCAA violation. Travis, purely and simply, made that up and threw it in the article. If anyone attempted to tell me he didn't know what he was writing wasn't the truth I'd call them a fool.

(I find it laughable that a guy with a law degree doesn't get simple grammar...but that's a different story all together.)

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Like I said 2 or 3 years ago... It's actually a blessing that a dolt like Clay is the one beating this drum. Back then he had Brooks helping him. Their "investigative articles" are full of errors because all the info is sent to them from rival fans and they do no actual investigating. Nobody takes them very seriously. It isn't Yahoo! Sports. It's a clown looking for website hits. In this case, he may be on the gold, but he's too stupid to find it.

A couple years back Clay wrote an article on a mall kiosk that contained signed memorabilia all based on the fact that it was Tom's kiosk in University Mall. Only thing was, it wasn't Tom's. An it wasn't even a kiosk in University Mall. But someone told him it was, so he ran with it. Just like I guess someone told him Tom doesn't sell suits anymore...