During the middle ages (the “dark ages”) some priests used to use “relics” of dead saints — allegedly their bones or clothing or some other personal item, although it almost never was such a thing in reality — to impress peasants, knights, and royalty. And people bought it. Fortunately, we’ve matured and evolved since then...
Or not. Because multiple people on eBay are selling bags of air purported to be from inside Staples on the night of Kobe Bryant’s final game. Other people are selling toilet paper or other trinkets allegedly from that night. This one is my favorite:
The seller’s comment:
I wanted to find a rare collectors item from Kobe Bryant’s last game so the story on this item is a guy court side was about 2 steps away from Kobe and watched a drop of sweat hit the floor he wiped it up with a tissue and instantly put it in a zip lock bag, he decided to fill the bag with air from Kobe’s last game as well I have Absolutely no way to prove this unless you wanna run a dna test on this which will pass
Bidding on this is up to $41. There are multiple other such bags of air available for purchase on eBay.
I was fortunate to be there for Bryant’s 60-point exit from the NBA stage, and you certainly could say the air inside Staples Center was charged with electricity that night. I just don’t think you can capture that in a bag. And that’s ignoring the whole authentication process.
If you’re thinking of bidding on one of these, just donate your money to charity instead. At least that way it will do some good.
(Hat tip to Matt Moore of CBSSports.com for noticing this trend, which worries me a little about Matt.)
