Deflategate has taken over the football world. Everyone from Jerry Rice to Louis CK to Bill Nye the Science Guy has weighed in with their thoughts on the subject.
Now, the sports auction house Lelands.com has released estimated values for various pieces of possible Deflategate memorabilia, beginning with the intercepted football that supposedly sparked the scandal, which Lelands says could fetch as much as $50,000 at auction. Any of the other 10 under-inflated footballs could be worth as much as $10,000.
Meanwhile, Tom Brady's AFC title game jersey could be worth up to $20,000, the ski hat he wore during his press conference addressing Deflategate could be worth $5,000, and D'Qwell Jackson's helmet from the game could garner a $2,500 bid.
Other items potentially worth $1,000 or more include the hoodie Patriots coach Bill Belichick wore during the AFC title game ($1,000), a football signed by Belichick, Brady, Nye and actress Marisa Tomei that contains a Mona Lisa Vito inscription -- in a tribute to Tomei's character in the movie My Cousin Vinny -- that Belichick referenced in his sprawling press conference ($2,500) and the windbreaker Belichick wore during that press conference ($1,000).
Autographed footballs signed by Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, or Brady and actor Taran Killam -- who portrayed Brady in a Saturday Night Live skit about Deflategate -- could be worth $500 and $250, respectively, according to Lelands.
And finally, a signed picture of Patriots owner Robert Kraft and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could also fetch up to $250.
That's a potential total of $183,000 (if my math is correct) worth of memorabilia, which if you say it out loud sounds even more insane than it looks when reading it on a computer screen.
