A Jay Cutler Signed Football Got Zero Bids In A Charity Auction

(Source) Jay Cutler often gets dogged by frustrated Bears fans, but the quarterback must have had a really ruff day March 26 when his autographed football didn’t fetch a single bid at a pet-adoption charity auction. But there’s a happy ending to the story. A person, who asked to remain anonymous, called the Anti-Cruelty Society on Thursday and offered the $100 starting bid. He planned to pick up the football for his son, a Bears fan, on Friday.

The white, autographed football was one of several items auctioned on the Society’s behalf at the Chosen Man’s Best Friend and Factor Felines fashion show and charity event at Bloomingdale’s on North Michigan Avenue. Most of the other items weren’t sports-related — theater tickets and spa treatments, for example — but a book about former Illinois men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber went for $120.

The Cutler football, however, was ignored. “When it came back, I was surprised it didn’t go, but I didn’t think it was because of who signed the football,” said Anti-Cruelty Society president Dr. Robyn Barbiers. She added that the attendees weren’t exactly “a football crowd.”

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Alright, hold on a second, just wait one second. Now….Hold on.

Alright, let’s think about this rationally. Someone do me a favor and look at a calendar. What month are we in? April right? Last I checked April is baseball, and the Final Four, and NBA/NHL playoffs. You know what it isn’t? Football season. That’s all that happened here, out of sight out of mind. We’re not in football season, if we were, that football would have gone for 10 grand easy. Who buys a signed football in APRIL?!?! An idiot, that’s who.  If anyone is to blame here it’s the Animal Cruelty society for being such morons. Be better, save the footballs for football season and maybe we can save a few more dogs.

Seriously though, rock bottom.