Bidding for jar of sand from Tom Brady retirement location approaches six figures

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There’s a sucker born every minute. And some of them end up with more than enough money to waste on stupid stuff.

Case in point, someone has bid $99,800 for a jar of sand from the spot where Tom Brady shot his completely impromptu, totally unplanned, and absolutely spontaneous retirement video on Wednesday morning.

I don’t know nearly enough about eBay to know whether this whole jar-of-sand thing is being staged. My personal bullshit detector is beeping, however. I currently wonder whether it’s all fugazi, possibly a product of Brady’s ultra-creative social-media team.

Could it be part of a plan to keep him firmly in the conversation, on the same weekend that the vanity film he produced has debuted in theaters?

Again, I don’t know if it’s all contrived. I’m just suspicious, because it seems too weird to be true.

And I also think that, if it was the product of a creative mind that hopes to keep the national focus on All Things Tommy, it was freakin’ brilliant.

30 responses to “Bidding for jar of sand from Tom Brady retirement location approaches six figures

  1. And I also think that, if it was the product of a creative mind that hopes to keep the national focus on All Things Tommy, it was freakin’ brilliant.
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    Most people here would have never heard of it if you didn’t bring it up, so you are complicit in the plan.

  2. Our society worships celebrities and athletes far too much. I appreciate the entertainment value, but I limit the money I spend on sports as much as possible. They don’t get my money for simply being.

  3. The person buying this jar of sand wanted to know what their brain looks like. And now they will know every time they look at that jar of sand.

  4. Bruh. For $100K you can fly first class to anywhere in the US, rent a dump truck, then bring back all the sand you want.

    Sell little vials of it for $20 or something and make your money back.

  5. I think Tom was in CR when he announced his retirement. That’s where Gisele was spending much of her of time and I think his family was there.

  6. If this was a fake stock certificate Viking fans would call the prospective purchaser a rube.

  7. That sand belongs to all of us, and I demand it be returned to it’s rightful place in nature. What if we all did that? There’d be no sand on the beach. This reeks of privilege, which is unacceptable in a sacred democracy of our values and who we are in a rules based order. It’s time for us to stand up and do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. We’re changing lives. No joke. C’mon man.

  8. Honestly, I thought he would sign another contract to play ball because he lost 50 million of that good good crypto with FTX, and his insurance policy just left town with the Jujitsu instructor. Hawking sand is a start, but the man’s got be-ills to pay. Best get working on that 100 mil talking head job with the other network Thomas…

  9. It’s a great investment. The entire state will be under water in a few years, and that jar of sand will be last dry piece of Florida left anywhere.
    Any price paid for it now is a bargain.

  10. Someone out there finally managed to out pace gamer girl bath water. Honestly, I tip my hat to them for such a feat.

  11. What if I told you that you could fly to that spot from anywhere in the country and get as many jars of sand as you want for under $1000?

  12. I was standing down wind from Tom when he made his announcement and I swear he farted and I caught it in a glass jar! ‘I’ll let it go’ for the bargain basement price of $1,000 .

  13. It doesn’t cost anything to bid. And I’m not sure of the punishment if you don’t pay.

  14. Tommy probably collected some to sell it on the TB12 store pretending it has some miraculous healing powers and the gullible will buy it 😂

  15. thoughts…. Wouldn’t they make more money if they sold it by the grain…? Just imagine what a lock of his hair could fetch! I would love to get a hold of the jar for a second and label it, “Just add water”.
    I wonder how much a jar of sand will go for when Goodell retires.
    Can they do DNA testing on sand to authenticate it?

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