Dude Drops The Most Casual "Roll Tide" Ever On Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: This is a little bit of New Deal history that we found at a junk shop in scenic Fort Payne, Alabama. We were driving through and saw a store and went in, and because I helped the guys unload a heavy piano, they said they would give me a discount on anything we found inside, so we picked this up for ten dollars.

APPRAISER: It’s safe to say this poster is in bad condition, and I think part of the charm of this piece is the way it looks. I would simply frame it and keep it out of the direct light. That’ll preserve it from getting worse. None of these have ever come up for sale before, so there are no comparables. Over the years, they took all the blank posters that they printed, over-printed them with the project numbers, so we know intuitively that there were a lot of them out there, but we haven’t seen them on the market. So my conservative estimate at auction would be between $2,000 and $3,000.

GUEST: Wow! Roll Tide, that’s great.

APPRAISER: I would think in good condition, you’re probably talking $7,000, $8,000, $9,000.

GUEST: That’s beautiful, wow.

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Messed around and totally forgot to post this 6 seconds of gold yesterday that @Puffy71 tweeted me. Bama fan just dropping the most casual, unexpected Roll Tide ever on Antiques Roadshow. Now the infrequent reader may think this is completely out of place. Dude you’re on Antiques Roadshow, looking at some vintage sign, getting a little appraisal for your old goods, what are you doing dropping college football catch phrases out of nowhere? But we know better. We know Roll Tide isn’t just some saying. It’s a lifestyle. 2000 bucks for this shitty ass poster?

Roll Damn Tide.

Not sure if you noticed, but people saying Roll Tide when it doesn’t belong is one of my favorite things in the world.