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July 14, 2004
What would you pay for the ball that Beckham missed the penalty with? : Reports are surfacing that the lucky Spaniard who caught the ball is getting bids upwards of $12 million for the fated ball.
posted by Ufez Jones to soccer at 10:52 AM - 6 comments
Here's the ebay auction for the ball (from ebay Spain). On the U.S. ebay, there's an auction for the contact info of the person who has the ball. Approximately $29 will get you Pablo Carral's 411.
posted by msacheson at 11:48 AM on July 14, 2004
Thanks, msacheson. I searched ebay for the bid and saw that guy auctioning off the contact info, but it didn't occur to me that ebay had a seperate site for Spain. It'll be interesting to see what the winning bid is. It's a nice design on the ball. I suppose, but I can't be the only one that misses the traditional icosohedron black and white balls. I know, they're not sponsor logo friendly, but still.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:10 PM on July 14, 2004
Ah, Ufez, you're more of a traditionalist than I am in these matters. Icosahedron-balls, like Man-U-bashing and giving hooligans free pot at the big cup events, are a capital idea that should never completely go out of style.
posted by chicobangs at 12:41 PM on July 14, 2004
The buyer will pay the shipping cost. Cheap bastard.....I mean, you're making $12 million...
posted by smithers at 01:39 PM on July 14, 2004
Fake bets, fake bets! This is like when Slim Shady's house went on ebay for $8 million or something. I'm sure that's quite reasonable to an 11-year old, as would this be.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 03:27 PM on July 14, 2004
If someone has that much more money than sense, well, alright then. Even the Bonds homer balls got, what, a mill? At most? Anyway, nowhere near 12 million, that's for sure. It's a nice design on the ball. I'd offer him twenty-five bucks, take it or leave it. And he'd leave it, and then I'd have twenty five bucks to go have a piss-up with my mates and tell the story of how I lowballed the guy with the Beckham-blew-it ball. Everybody wins.