Aaron Hernandez certified Auto card...Closed.

[Leon]

The OP asked me to move this here for discussion so I did. No, we won't be selling in this section, generally, but this is another discussion that is sort of interesting (at least to me).....carry on...

[vintagetoppsguy]

I don't have a problem with the auction or the card. I personally wouldn't care to own it, but I surely wouldn't fault anybody who would.

[scooter729]

I don't care so much about auctioning the card or someone wanting to own the card - there's no reason to knock someone for doing either one.

However, I do not think it's funny to joke about murderers or people having been killed. If you want to sell the card, fine - but no need to make light of a situation where multiple people lost their lives.

[calvindog]

[Rich Klein]

wow -- what a fascinating column idea

While not to this extreme, what do you do with players such as Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson

Or with a quick google -- this story about wife beaters including beloved HOF manager Bobby Cox

http://joshqpublic.com/2010/10/12/wh...ers-in-sports/

And of course there are those athletes, again who may not kill anyone, but do bad things after their career

Here is a nice story about Billy Cannon, beloved LSU player

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/etick...030BillyCannon

One issue is if you are working on a set, you need those cards to finish. Period, end of sentence

The other issue is do you really need to have those cards if you are not working on a set. Now that is where the dilemma comes in

Not stating an opinion, just throwing out some comments

Rich

[TanksAndSpartans]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

One issue is if you are working on a set, you need those cards to finish. Period, end of sentence

I think we all have the right to handle this in our own way. I didn't want an OJ rookie card in my collection, but needed it to finish a registry set. I bought the card, finished and retired the set, then sold the card.

I laughed at this: "Get this killer of a card! (or, actually, vice versa)" - not appropriate humor for all situations, but on a message board, I don't think that's going to far. There is a tendency to find humor in a lot of situations - I doubt someone could watch SNL, John Stewart, etc. if they were really sensitive (or didn't understand satire.)

[Joshchisox08]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

I don't have a problem with the auction or the card. I personally wouldn't care to own it, but I surely wouldn't fault anybody who would.

+1

Since people are going on rants I'll start a minor one. I completely agree with the above quote 100%. Then again I don't understand how anyone could watch or even like the NFL. It's full of criminals who get away with things, and use steroids. Every other day there's a player in the headlines with a gun charge, domestic violence, drugs, etc. Roger Goodell is a moron who just sits back and cashes in on these idiots with no discipline. Or maybe that's not such a moronic thing to do ?

There's about 5 minutes total of actual game play the rest is watching people on the side line and the clock running down a total snooze fest. Unpopular opinion I'm sure but thought I'd throw it out there.