pretty interesting, especially for a card collector like me.

Leon Washington's Topps "Sign of the Future" rookie card features a photo of him apparently giving the middle finger with both hands across his chest...

ESPN did an article on it, and i just found the card on ebay fetching over $200 now!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2662669



apparently, its a hand sign for his old neighborhood...

[Edited on November 16, 2006 at 2:53 PM. Reason : .]

11/16/2006 2:48:06 PM

Nice.

J-E-T-S.

11/16/2006 2:50:51 PM

he's on my fantasy team

11/16/2006 3:17:07 PM

Reminds me of the good ole days of Billy Ripken's 'fuckface' card. Rumor is Cal wrote it on the bat without Billy knowing.

11/16/2006 3:24:39 PM

i didn't know people still bought cards...hopefully the market will improve with cards because i have 133 jordan cards in cases in my safe

11/16/2006 3:28:12 PM

"Scandal"?

no.

11/16/2006 3:32:08 PM

Quote :

"Reminds me of the good ole days of Billy Ripken's 'fuckface' card. Rumor is Cal wrote it on the bat without Billy knowing."

That's the first thing I thought of.

11/16/2006 3:40:34 PM

Quote :

"Billy Ripken is perhaps best remembered, however, for an infamous baseball card. In 1989, Ripken's Fleer card showed the player holding a bat with the expletive fuck face written in plain view on the knob of the bat. Fleer subsequently rushed to correct the error, and in their haste, released versions in which the text was scrawled over with a marker, whited out with correction fluid, and also airbrushed. On the final, corrected version, Fleer obscured the offensive words with a black box (this was the version included in all factory sets). Both the original card and many of the corrected versions have become collector's items as a result. There are at least ten different variations of this card, image here. Shortly thereafter, speculation began on how the expletive came to be on Ripken's card. At first, it was believed that a Fleer employee touched up the photograph and added the obscenity. Ripken later admitted that several of his Orioles teammates wrote the words on his bat as a joke, which went unnoticed during the photo shoot. Despite his confession, many find it highly implausible that Ripken and the Fleer employees involved with the production failed to notice what was written on the bat, and suggest that one or more of them knew about the obscenity but deliberately allowed it to slip through. One reason for this suspicion is that the obscenity is facing the camera in standard English reading orientation (left to right), lined up straight. Had Ripken simply grabbed the bat and posed for the photo, not knowing or seeing what was on the bat, it was thought more likely that the words would have appeared at an off-center angle. There is a musical group from Massachusetts, "The Billy Ripken Fuck Face Card," that takes its name from the Fleer baseball card incident. To quote one of the bandmembers, drummer Shawn Fogel: "The background of course is that Billy wasn't that good — or liked by his teammates — but got on the team because his brother Cal insisted on it." While this doubtless makes a good story for a band name, the accuracy regarding Ripken's placement with the Orioles and his relationships with teammates is unknown."

[Edited on November 16, 2006 at 4:07 PM. Reason : pic]

11/16/2006 4:05:21 PM

11/16/2006 4:45:40 PM

lake freaking speed

11/16/2006 6:35:21 PM

the one week i benched him he scored me 30 fantasy points

11/16/2006 9:05:29 PM

hahah oh shit!! i have the fuck face card and didn't even know it

[Edited on November 16, 2006 at 11:51 PM. Reason : damn, it's one of the corrected ones]

11/16/2006 11:49:51 PM

^haha same

11/16/2006 11:59:08 PM

I also had the fuckface card, but sold it years ago.

11/17/2006 12:04:23 AM