Pants For Sale Comment Count

Brian

This is all Michigan's fault for flooding the market with the damn things but even so it was inevitable that some gold pants would show up on the TV. Reader Clark Jansen grabbed a camera and forwards along images with details:

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Assuming they didn't flip the pants when they… uh… flipped them*, the 2008 edition belongs to either Doug Worthington or Donald Washington, both of whom were redshirt juniors and are no longer around. Sorry to disappoint the suspension-minded. The 2002 pants belonged to LeAndre Boone.

No doubt both of these were stolen, etc etc etc, and are not emblematic of OSU boosters habitually funneling money to players.

*[I don't see an LB on the 2008 roster so this is a safe assumption.]

Comments

chitownblue2

April 5th, 2011 at 12:28 PM ^

wasn't there either a B10 Championship or National Championship Michigan ring on ebay sometime in the past few years?

lbpeley

April 5th, 2011 at 2:22 PM ^

Are UM players getting caught hocking their stuff while still enrolled and on the team? Playing devil's advocate isn't nearly as annoying when it actually makes sense to play it.

BucksfanXC

April 5th, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^

Doug Worthington and LeAndre Boone, confirmed.

Since Brian effectively knee capped the "flooded market" jokes, let me reciprocate with the how many tattoos are those worth jokes.

EZMIKEP

April 5th, 2011 at 12:40 PM ^

because I would buy them and then take them to my friends jewelry store and melt them into a necklace for my wife while filming the process that would be later enshrined in the wonderful video immortality of You Tube. 

Zonereadstretch

April 5th, 2011 at 12:47 PM ^

Nothing much of substance to add, just found this post humorous as I was in the Pawn Stars pawn shop about 3 weeks while in Vegas and took plenty of photo ops of these in the case to send to my OSU family members.  Needless to say they didn’t find the photo’s as funny as I did.

ryebreadboy

April 5th, 2011 at 1:12 PM ^

When I scanned the image, I legit thought that the 2009 edition said Ohio 42 Mich 1.  And I was like... I don't remember getting blown out that badly.  Then I was like... how do you score 1 point in a football game?  Then I realized it was 7.

Also, why doesn't OSU pay to have someone actually engrave these pants?  These look like they were made in a high school shop class.

Geaux_Blue

April 5th, 2011 at 1:19 PM ^

if they redshirted the year of 2008, this means they didn't in 2009 and 2010. if they sold during that time period, there would be ramifications of ineligible benefits and possibly forfeiting the games they played in due to that.

jmblue

April 5th, 2011 at 3:32 PM ^

I'm surprised they say "OHIO" and not OSU on them.  A lot of older Michigan fans refer to them as "Ohio," and Hoke obviously does too, but I thought OSU itself was always big about making the distinction.