NFL changes auction procedures after AFC title game mishap

[Gopack1782]

Not sure if anyone saw this yet. NFL Auctions revamping their process! Looks like good things to come starting this season regarding game used items!

“NFL Auction employees will no longer carry jerseys and other game-used items with them from games,” the memo from Jeff Pash, Troy Vincent, and Anna Isaacson to all teams said in a memo that PFT has obtained. “Instead, when Auction employees are onsite, they will coordinate prior to the game with the club’s equipment manager and meet them postgame to photograph items to be provided for sale on NFL Auction. This will enable the items to be posted quickly on the Auction website to capitalize on timing and interest. In all cases, however, shipping will go directly from the club to The Hibbert Group.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-game-mishap/

[danesei@yahoo.com]

I've never bid on an NFL auction, but the wording of that announcement made me pause for a bit: Did some employee get accused of switching out things or something?

[Gopack1782]

"Apparently, however, there was a flaw in that process sufficiently fatal to prompt the NFL to completely abandon it."

Sure seems like it.