Interested in a 12 foot Super Bowl 50 statue? Perhaps a good gag gift to dump on your friends?
In the marketing push leading up to this year’s big game, small and giant ’50’ statues commemorating the game were setup across San Francisco and the general Bay Area. If you somehow fell in love with the golden statues, one Bay Area recycling center has just what you are looking for and is willing to sell after being called upon to haul the statue away after the Super Bowl.
Now the real question is just what price to put on a 12-foot tall ’50’ as it’s not every day that a 12-foot statute of the number 50 appears in a recycling center for re-sale.
“We sell re-used lumber, so we know what that’s worth,” Ed Dunn, the owner of the giant ’50,’ told Mashable on Tuesday. “But this is the first time we’ve had a re-used 50.”
Nor is it every day that a piece of Super Bowl history is just discarded in such a manner.
What may be of bigger interest is that this giant 50 is a bit rare, in that it was one of the few that weren’t defaced by vandals and graffiti tags ahead of the game.
Some had fun with the words below:
https://twitter.com/shanand/status/692750638065692674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Others went to greater lengths to embarrass the NFL ahead of its biggest game of the year:
Alamo Square Super Bowl Statue Knocked Over, Sign Rearranged To ‘Oops' https://t.co/yxuxJDhp1l pic.twitter.com/UyXExlMpeW
— Hoodline (@Hoodline) January 31, 2016
Twin Peaks Super Bowl Statue Now Reads ‘Up R Bowel’: https://t.co/yxuxJDhp1l pic.twitter.com/XVR4IxzjR3
— Hoodline (@Hoodline) January 31, 2016
This sign, while also much bigger, was also much more highly guarded, as it was located in “Super Bowl City” on the San Francisco waterfront. It is believed his possession is just one of two such statues that are in existence, and that makes pricing even trickier.
So too does the ability to move said statue. It isn’t as if most have the means to move a 12-foot statue on their own. Dunn does note that it breaks down in to smaller sections, but it still would require someone of means and know-how to get it out of his lot.
In the meantime, we’re sure he’ll be brainstorming up the right price to get this 12-foot monster of a statue out of his possession and in to someone who has 12 feet of clearance to play with in/around their homes.
[Mashable]
