Suggestions for Autographed Items

I hear athletes love to sign babies.

Schutt looks dumb in replica helmets. Looks like a fish bowl. Riddell. 

I'm very careful about buying things because of the issues with the color Maize and how there's 50 shades of them. The helmet on MDen's site look nothing like they do in person. 

The wings are very glittery in person and it still has the highlighter adidas Maize. 

 

Do a helmet rather than a ball. Balls deflate over time and the bladders go bad so you can't reinflate.

Jersey if you have the wall space. At least with helmets they can go on a shelf or a desk or whatever. 

isn't 'whole milk carton' the permanent answer to this question now?

Rank: Jersey, Helmet, Ball

I have a mini helmet signed by Denard. The wife keeps removing it from its place as centerpiece of our dinner table.

Jerseys can be screwed into wall forever.

I love my signed jersey

 

I once knew a man who was next door neighbors with Desmond Howard. I had him take a mini helmet, a couple posters and a couple banners and get them all signed. The mini helmet is the best IMO

I loved signed helmets. I have one from Woodson and Denard. Plus who doesn't love the look of the winged helmet? Jerseys look great as well when put in the right shadow box. I have a football signed, but it doesn't have the same great look as the helmets. 

I try to have a wide variety of items, helmets, pictures, tickets, magazines, footballs. Others I know only collect one item. Also consider display space.

 Ive never had any issues with bladders going bad in my footballs. Two of mine are each over 35 years old signed by the teams from '77 and '80 both still hold air and look great.

Tip for signing autograph balls (ones with the smooth leather not ribbed like game balls) have it signed with ball point pen as opposed to sharpie. The sharpie is absorbed into the leather and disappears after a while. Ball point pen never does unless left exposed to direct sunlight for many years. 

Paint markers can be a good option but they also can be finicky and not write well or blast blobs of paint on the item or signer, and can be smeared easily. Best bet is to go to an art supply store and get a high end set of pens that are fade resistant. I always carry Blue, Silver, Maize, and Black for autographs depending on what item and where it's signed. 

Not to come on here and hawk my own agenda - but I have a signed Desmond Howard and Woodson jersey I've been meaning to part ways with. I recently moved and forfeited the "man cave" to the kids so I have a bunch of stuff just sitting in a box in my garage. If anyone is interested in purchasing let me know.

And if this sort of thing is not cool I apologize, just seemed fitting with the rest of the thread.

Body parts.

Have a few items. I'd go with a helmet. Signatures on solid surfaces last a lot longer

The Woodson Rose Bowl interception photo personalized and signed.  I'd guess it's 24"x30" or so and is a great conversation piece.  I bought the print itself off the AP website, and then a friend of a friend arranged for the signature. I'm sure you could have some great photos to choose from there or from other services.  

If you do a photo, make sure you put it behind light resistant glass and try to keep it out of direct sunlight.  I also have a Bo signed football and the signature has faded so I basically keep it in a dark place all the time, which kind of undermines the whole point of having a collectible.  The photo has done fine after almost 10 years.

Jersies are great but you need a lot of wall space to display one and getting one mounted properly is expensive. A helmet is easy to move around, goes on almost any shelf, it easy to grab and take for another autograph and, frankly, the helmet is THE iconic Michigan item. Any of the jersies, except, arguably some of the oddball brandonized ones, are bland by comparison.

An omg shirtless pic of the person in question

It has to be your copy of HTTV, right? How could anything be more commemorative? Also, I'm bitter that somebody beat me to boobs.

If so the answer is nothing.  The idea of having another grown ass man sign something is crazy to me.