NFL Super Bowl Swag

We've previously noted that you can buy Brian Urlacher's infamous Vitamin Water hat on eBay, but that pales in comparison to the news from Deadspin today.

It turns out you can also buy Urlacher's jock strap and cup on eBay. And we're not talking just any jock strap and cup. We're talking about the jock strap and cup Urlacher wore in the Super Bowl. (At least until he took it off at halftime.)

This auction is for an Authentic Used Brian Urlacher Athletic Supporter. The item is in used condition and has a tear in back strap from use. The item was obtained by myself as a locker room attendee. My duties included handling the teams gear, this item was discarded and replaced, and was worn during the first half of Super bowl XLI.

Included is the actual plastic composite guard. The item is sealed and ready to be shipped. The item does contain some discoloration from use but overall condition is good, and ready for display.

Copies of info pertaining to my employment with the bears (minus sensitive information) is also available to the winner of the auction.

I have a feeling eBay is going to put the kibosh on this one, as the Bears and the NFL will probably say this guy doesn't have the right to sell Urlacher's jock strap and cup. So take a look now while you can.

The Vitamin Water hat that Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher wore at Super Bowl media day -- the hat that caused the NFL to fine him $100,000 -- can now be yours on eBay.

Some employees of a Chicago radio station got the hat from Urlacher, and they were discussing on the air what they wanted to do with it. A woman named Crystal Stupar called in and said she was pregnant and that her husband is in Afghanistan, and that they could use the money from selling the hat. So the radio station gave the hat to Stupar. Here's how she describes it at the auction site:

You are bidding on the actual hat Brian Urlacher wore during the Super Bowl Media Day. I obtained this hat through a contest from B96 a Chicago, IL. Radio Station, where Brian Urlacher donated the hat. The Authentic Vitaminwater Hat, that Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 by the NFL for wearing during Super Bowl Media Day. He was promoting a sponsor not authorized by the league. This is the first time such a fine has been levied. This is an all black hat with the word vitaminwater on the front inside a yellow and white bottle, the back of the hat has the same bottle with vitaminwater in it also. This hat is a fitted hat with the size 7 3/4 tag on the inside.

The current bid is $5,000.

Previously at FanHouse:
NFL Fines Brian Urlacher $100,000 for Wearing Hat
Remember to Drink Your Gatorade, Brian Urlacher

The reviews are in and everyone seemed to like Prince's Super Bowl halftime show. But if you really liked it, you have the chance to have a little part of it in your private collection.

This eBay auction involves what the seller claims is the black bandana Prince wore during the show:

I was lucky enough to catch Prince's black bandana when he throw it off stage last night during the superbowl. Im not a big fan of prince, but catching anything a celeb throws at you is always sweet!! But i am wanting to sell it, if anyone likes prince, this will become a huge collectable later on!! It still even smells like hairspray and sweat. Its all dry now, but still kool, its like having prince right there with you!!!! :D

Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to shell out big money for something that still smells like hairspray and sweat. But TMZ is skeptical, saying, "Prince would never allow such a low quality item on his head. His fashion sense might be be questionable, but his standards are not."

You know that commercial for NFLshop.com, where there's a Bears fan and a Vikings fan that live next to one another, and they keep trying to outdo one another ... they have team jerseys, couches, chairs, pets, etc. And eventually, the Vikings guy wins by unveiling a huge inflatable Viking in his front yard.

Well, the Bears guy would have won if he had this lawnmower, which he could then start up, ride over to the inflatable Viking, put the blade down, mow his foot off, and destroy it forever. Instead, he just wusses out and concedes the argument ... and in the process, he probably cost the Bears the Super Bowl.

Rectify that guy's mistake, buy this thing, and destroy some of your neighbor's property with it. It's what Lovie Smith would want.

Continuing with the theme of Super Bowl art, we present this ... well, this "art"-like substance.

I know what you're thinking. "Any paste-eating fourth-grader could have done this." And maybe that's true (check out the rack on that cheerleader, though).

But it's not like this isn't being sold as some fantastic work of art. It's an ACEO, sort of like a little trading card that artists trade amongst themselves, or use as like a little personal calling card. And hey, the asking price is 99 cents. That still might be a little high for approximately 45 seconds of work, but still ... no one's asking you to break the bank.

The artist who created the listing is actually quite a talented artist ... observe his eBay store, or his website. Or this line from a profile about him here.

"Davini's abstract work has an existential quality that challenges and lures the viewer into searching for relationships that may elucidate or deny the unexplainable."

Also, he puts hooters on stick-figure cheerleaders.

Rare is the item that serves as both an elegant piece of Super Bowl art and a weapon with which you can bludgeon to death a fan of the opposing team. eBay, right now, features one such item.

It's a welded steel sculpture by artist Chris Jaworski (you're certainly not going to get any quality art out of Ron Jaworski) designed to memorialize Super Bowl XLI. It appears to be a bunch of small pieces of metal welded together in the form of a Bear, a Colt, and the Roman numeral XLI, with what I think is a football above it (hi-res image here).

That's the Bear on the left, and the Colt on the right ... and it's not like this is just useful for the Super Bowl. When the season ends, you can also use the Colts statue to support your other favorite team, the Diseased Pterodactyls.

I kid. I think it's honorable that someone made an honest effort to produce original Super Bowl Art. It's certainly more unique and lasting than any t-shirt or commemorative SI issue that you're going to get, even if the price is a little steep ($3500 with no bids right now).

I never thought I'd see a jacket as beautiful as this one again. And ... well, I was right right, the Warren Moon jacket is still unmatched, but this thing is at least in the neighborhood. If you've ever waken up one day and said to yourself, "I have gone my last day on this planet without having a California sunset, the word "Pasadena" in cursive, and the Lombardi trophy" featured on my back ... then I have just the jacket for you.

This polyester dream is available right now for just $7.95. It has six snaps on the front (no respectable jacket closes without snaps), and two pockets. And the really cool thing ... well, I'll let the auctioneer explain:

THE REALLY COOL THING IS THAT TEH JACKET ALSO HAS ALL OF THE TEAMS LOGO'S ALL AROUND THE JACKET, SOME ARE THE VINTAGE OR OLD SCHOOL LOGOS!!!!! ADDITIONALLY, IT HAS 2 ****MASSIVE**** SUPER BOWL 27 LOGO'S WITH THE DATE OF THE GAME AND PASADENA, CALIFORNIA ON BOTH SLEEVES!!!!

!!!!

That's nine exclamation points and eight asterisks and you're not going to buy this thing? What's wrong with you?

Anything that commemorates Super Bowl XXVII is a valuable piece of merchandise. After all, it's the Super Bowl where O.J. Simpson performed the ceremonial coin toss ... so if you're ever wearing this jacket, and you run into O.J., you two will have something to talk about while he's murdering you. It's also the game that featured the Leon Lett play and the Michael Jackson halftime performance, so ... it's something to be celebrated.

There are times when you're hanging out with a group of old people, and maybe you're not having a very good time ... until you see an older guy wearing something awesome, and you think, "this guy's 85, but he's still my kind of guy." And then you get him drunk, buy him a hooker, wreck a marriage that had lasted sixty-five years, and forget about the guy the next day ... I believe that this is an item that could spawn a tremendous friendship like that.

They are Super Bowl I cuff links, still in their original box. Cuff links as Super Bowl merchandise ... imagine. You don't see that anymore. And even if you did, they wouldn't have the character of these things. No colors, no flashy jewelry ... just simple, solid, engraving. I really love these things. Not enough to spend two large on them, but ... I could see why someone would.

With emphasis on "film." If you happen to own a 16mm projecter and are a huge fan of the 1969/70 Super Bowl Champion Chiefs, then today is your lucky day.

People today still refer to game footage as "film," even though they probably have it on DVD or in some other digital film. But in my opinion, such modern conveniences are for sissies. Wow your friends with this ... invite them over, tell them you have some game film on the Super Bowl IV Champion Chiefs ... and watch their jaws drop in envy when you dim the lights and fire up an actual projector. This is for only the manliest, technology-hating football fans.

And who knows what you're going to see on this thing. The auction says it's season highlights of of the Chiefs '69/'70 campaign, but when I see something that's been kept alive on actual film, I think there could be something sketchy going on with this. I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of this, there was a few minutes of a Len Dawson snuff film.

If you're looking for a good conversation piece at your Super Bowl party ... I don't know that you could do any better than this.

It's an actual, legitimate, "Super Bowl" ring ... kind of. The auction describes it as an "AUTHENTIC SUPER BOWL V NFC CHAMPIONSHIP RING," though I think it would be more accurate to just call it an NFC Championship ring. Unless you want to call it a loser's Super Bowl ring.

The Cowboys were participants in Super Bowl V, though they lost the game to the Colts (since then, the Cowboys have a little bit better history with the Super Bowl). This particular ring belonged to Cowboys defensive end George Andrie, a five-time Pro Bowler.

I didn't even know they made rings for conference champions. Do they still do this? Is there any player out there who seriously values their conference championship ring? Does Peyton Manning have one? If he loses on Sunday, will he wear it around? Will people laugh at him? Do you like question marks?

At any rate, the fact that it's a conference championship ring makes it easier to understand why George Andrie donated it to charity. How it ended up being hocked on eBay, I couldn't tell you. But the thing already has 25 bids and is up over $6,000. It's evidently very expensive to celebrate Super Bowl losers these days.