Link: Alabama launches partnership with Fanatics (NiL) for players to sell merchandise.

[AlexanderFan]

This is above board and BIG TIME. Brand name autographed merchandise from current players? Poor folks around the stadium just lost a lot of money.

Alabama announces unique NIL merchandise partnership

The Alabama Crimson Tide introduced an innovative new NIL addition to Bryant-Denny Stadium this season that will benefit athletes.

www.on3.com

Saban warned them.

 

[81usaf92]

This is above board and BIG TIME. Brand name autographed merchandise from current players? Poor folks around the stadium just lost a lot of money.

Alabama announces unique NIL merchandise partnership

The Alabama Crimson Tide introduced an innovative new NIL addition to Bryant-Denny Stadium this season that will benefit athletes.

www.on3.com

Saban warned them.

Good for them. It’s about time they put the EBay vultures out of business.

 

[STONECOLDSABAN]

This is above board and BIG TIME. Brand name autographed merchandise from current players? Poor folks around the stadium just lost a lot of money.

Alabama announces unique NIL merchandise partnership

The Alabama Crimson Tide introduced an innovative new NIL addition to Bryant-Denny Stadium this season that will benefit athletes.

www.on3.com

Saban warned them.

 

[KrAzY3]

I always felt like this was one of the very few good outcomes of NIL. I guess this took a bit longer to make sure it done within the framework of the rules because it's just about the most obvious thing to do...

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Ugh, Fanatics. The worst sport memorabilia company on the planet. They've created a virtual monopoly where almost every sport memorabilia website is run by Fanatics. This keeps prices high and the quality of actual Fanatics brand items is crap. My Braves WS champs Fanatics branded t-shirt shrunk almost 2 sizes worth after about 3 washes.

 

[BhamToTexas]

This is what NIL was supposed to be all about.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Ugh, Fanatics. The worst sport memorabilia company on the planet. They've created a virtual monopoly where almost every sport memorabilia website is run by Fanatics. This keeps prices high and the quality of actual Fanatics brand items is crap. My Braves WS champs Fanatics branded t-shirt shrunk almost 2 sizes worth after about 3 washes.

Are you sure the shirt shrunk and you didn't get bigger?
Just messing with you. Mine shrunk too.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Are you sure the shirt shrunk and you didn't get bigger?
Just messing with you. Mine shrunk too.

I just gave you the same eye roll I gave my wife when she made the same joke.

 

[DogPatch]

Good for them. It’s about time they put the EBay vultures out of business.

So now one company gets all the $ instead of all the different eBay users. Yeah, much better.

 

[81usaf92]

So now one company gets all the $ instead of all the different eBay users. Yeah, much better.

As someone who is a collector and has sold and had to deal with autographs for an income I can tell you that this makes me happy. Sure I feel bad for the kid who wants a street autograph from his favorite Bama player but there are far more 40 to 50 year old men harassing a guy walking with his family for an autograph because they want to sell it for 30x above its actual value.

 

[bamaga]

Speaking of the right way ,latu signed a deal with Levis

Alabama TE Cameron Latu lands NIL deal with Levi's

Alabama football now has a tight end in the NIL game. Cameron Latu is about to enter his fifth season for the Crimson Tide. RELATED: Deion Sanders not willing to sacrifice his players’ bodies “for a check” to face Alabama As a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, he arrived as a four-star linebacker...

tdalabamamag.com

these big national NIL deals are what will keep Bama winning

 

[Bamabuzzard]

As someone who is a collector and has sold and had to deal with autographs for an income I can tell you that this makes me happy. Sure I feel bad for the kid who wants a street autograph from his favorite Bama player but there are far more 40 to 50 year old men harassing a guy walking with his family for an autograph because they want to sell it for 30x above its actual value.

I am an avid football/Baseball card collector and this particular market is severely dried up. Most real collectors no longer buy an item on ebay (from an individual) claiming the card/ball/helmet he's trying to sell is authentic. Granted, I'm sure you have some suckers still left out there, but the bulk of the trading card market no longer buys this type of stuff.

 

[rjtide]

Good for them. It’s about time they put the EBay vultures out of business.

kinda glad re: eBay vultures losing out

 

[81usaf92]

I am an avid football/Baseball card collector and this particular market is severely dried up. Most real collectors no longer buy an item on ebay (from an individual) claiming the card/ball/helmet he's trying to sell is authentic. Granted, I'm sure you have some suckers still left out there, but the bulk of the trading card market no longer buys this type of stuff.

More or less I go to signing events and TTM. Only eBay signatures I get are topps certified or equivalent signatures.

 

[Tidewater]

This is above board and BIG TIME. Brand name autographed merchandise from current players? Poor folks around the stadium just lost a lot of money.

I always thought that was bad form anyway. To take a football to A-Day (or use some other opportunity) to get a player to sign it, only to turn around and sell that item on the secondary market always struck me as a little sleazy.
If you want Julio to sign your Bama baseball cap as a memento, that is one thing. To sell that cap is another (in my view).
That is probably just me, though.

 

[Tidewater]

I am an avid football/Baseball card collector and this particular market is severely dried up. Most real collectors no longer buy an item on ebay (from an individual) claiming the card/ball/helmet he's trying to sell is authentic. Granted, I'm sure you have some suckers still left out there, but the bulk of the trading card market no longer buys this type of stuff.

When I was in Ireland, I bought an autographed photo of Saint Patrick for $10. Great deal.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

This is above board and BIG TIME. Brand name autographed merchandise from current players? Poor folks around the stadium just lost a lot of money.

Alabama announces unique NIL merchandise partnership

The Alabama Crimson Tide introduced an innovative new NIL addition to Bryant-Denny Stadium this season that will benefit athletes.

www.on3.com

Saban warned them.

This smells like big money.

 

[JustNeedMe81]

Saban has spoken on creating for values for yourself over the years... This is classical example of creating a value for yourself on and off the field. Do that and you shall be rewarded.

 

[81usaf92]

I always thought that was bad form anyway. To take a football to A-Day (or use some other opportunity) to get a player to sign it, only to turn around and sell that item on the secondary market always struck me as a little sleazy.
If you want Julio to sign your Bama baseball cap as a memento, that is one thing. To sell that cap is another (in my view).
That is probably just me, though.

I’ve been to one Saban era fan day and 90% of them that I met were either there for a free Saban autograph or to get some autographs to sell. Honestly I’m happy the “running of the gumps” tradition is over because it just shows how desperate many of our fans either wanna turn a Buck or have 45 minutes on the BDS grass.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

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