Anyone is keen to pay six figures for a Mason jar full of sand the place Tom Brady supposedly sat whereas filming his retirement video?
As soon as upon a time, Jack, a struggling farm boy within the English countryside, was requested to promote his prized household cow in order that his family might find the money for to eat for the remainder of the week. As an alternative of promoting the cow, he trades the cow for some magic beans. Have you ever heard this story? In all probability. Whereas everybody made enjoyable of Jack for making a commerce extra one-sided than the DeAndre Hopkins deal again in 2020, Jack proved his instinct appropriate when the beans sprouted a magical beanstalk that grew to the heavens. Sure, he was a incredible hero for making such a outstanding commerce. Now, think about the beans by no means sprouted. How silly would he look? In all probability not as dumb as whoever spends $100,000 — or extra — on the sand the place Tom Brady introduced his retirement.
The 23-year NFL vet, seven-time Tremendous Bowl champ, and three-time MVP lately introduced his retirement from a seashore in Florida. Shortly, investigators tried to decipher the place that seashore was. Seems it was a public seashore in Surfside close to Miami, the place he was as soon as rumored to play. Regardless, this realization led a number of folks to do what they do finest, attempt to make a fast buck, however nobody succeeded fairly in addition to eBay person gadgetgs.
Gadgetgs rapidly discovered the precise spot the place Brady filmed his retirement video and crammed a jar with as a lot sand as he might. He posted an image of the jar in addition to a New York Instances newspaper from Feb. 1 to show that the sand was obtained lately. As you possibly can see from the tweet above, folks have bid practically $100,000 on these little pebbles the place Brady as soon as stood. That’s completely ridiculous.
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Will the sand sell for six figures?
Even crazier is that the bid has gone up since. It currently sits at $99,900. Whoever makes the next ridiculous bid will be marching into six-figure territory. That’s more than two years’ worth of an average American’s salary…being spent on sand.
You know what the saddest part about all this is though? Any remnant of Brady’s feet being on that sand is likely long gone. It’s already come out that Brady filmed that video at the very least a day earlier than posting it, however in all probability longer. Sources near Brady advised ESPN and NFL Community that he filmed the video “some time in the past.” The Boston Globe additionally reported that Brady had advised his dad and mom he would retire greater than per week earlier than the video was posted to social media.
With the shifting tides and fixed wind on the shore, odds are that any Brady particles that will have crawled into the sand as Brady shuffled his ft alongside the coarse floor are seemingly lengthy gone. If whoever buys this jar hoped to search out a few of Brady’s DNA and clone his personal three-time MVP, they’re almost definitely shit out of luck.
Certainly, extra individuals are going to attempt to money in on this fad. Already, we’ve seen a number of TikToks about folks discovering the identical spot and grabbing some pebbles of their very own to promote on the web.
What’s subsequent although? Grass from the precise spot in Raymond James Stadium the place Tom Brady threw his remaining landing? That will be the following logical step, and if that does come to fruition, maybe being a groundskeeper in Tampa Bay can lastly web you a six-figure wage. So, I’m simply gonna hop on over to Certainly actual fast and see if there are any listings.
