Once upon a time, Jack, a struggling farmer in the English countryside, was asked to sell his prized family cow so that his household would have enough money for food until the end of the week. Instead of selling the cow, he trades it for magic beans. Have you heard this story? Probably. While everyone mocked Jack for making a trade more one-sided than Deal with DeAndre Hopkins back in the year 2020, Jack proved his intuition correct when a magical beanstalk sprouted from the beans and grew to the heavens. Yes, he was a fantastic hero for such an outstanding trade. Now imagine that the beans never germinated. How stupid would you look? Probably not as stupid as someone who spends $100,000 on the sand where Tom Brady announced his retirement.
23-year NFL veteran, seven-time Super Bowl champion and most recently three-time MVP announced his retirement from Florida beach. Investigators quickly tried to decipher where that beach was located. It turned out to be a public beach in Surfside near miami, where he was once rumored to be playing. Regardless, this realization has led several people to do what they do best, try to make a quick buck, but none have succeeded as well as the eBay user. gadgets.
Gadgetgs quickly found the exact spot where Brady filmed his retirement video and filled the jar with as much sand as he could. He posted a picture of the jar as ia The New York Times newspaper of February 1 to prove that the sand was recently obtained. As you can see from the tweet above, people have bid nearly $100,000 for these little rocks where Brady once stood. That is absolutely ridiculous.
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Will the sand sell for six figures?
What’s even crazier is that the supply has gone up since then. It is currently $99,900. Whoever makes the next ridiculous offer will be marching into six-figure territory. That’s more than two years of the average American salary… spent on sand.
Do you know what the saddest part of all of this is? All traces of Brady’s feet on that sand are probably long gone. It has already come to light that Brady recorded that video at least a day before posting, but probably longer. Sources close to Brady told ESPN and NFL Network that he made the video “some time ago.” The The Boston Globe also reported that Brady told his parents he was retiring more than a week before the video was posted on social media.
With the changing tides and constant onshore wind, chances are that the Brady particles that seeped into the sand as Brady moved his feet over the rough surface are probably long gone. If whoever bought this jar was hoping to find some of Brady’s DNA and clone their own three-time MVP, they’re probably out of luck.
Surely more people will try to make money from this fashion. We’ve already seen multiple TikToks of people finding the same place and grabbing some of their rocks to sell online.
What’s next? Grass right from the spot in Raymond James Stadium where Tom Brady threw his last touchdown? That would be the next logical step, and if it comes to fruition, maybe a guard job in Tampa Bay can finally bring you a six-figure salary. So I’ll just jump over to Indeed and see if there are any ads.