Game Used Favre Story in SCD

[harpt]

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I am friends with Chris, but don't want to speak for him. I know that he is planning on responding soon.

I agree with the majority of posters here: This article was very well done, and I greatly look forward to whatever may come from it.

[ironmanfan]

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Isn't member "Harpt" a friend of Nerat? I wonder if he could chime in?

[trsent]

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Posted Friday on the MEARS forum:

Chris Nerat, Brett Favre, and his future

November 14 2008 at 11:41 AM Troy R. Kinunen (Login Troyrkinunen)

I have spoken to Chris Nerat and he planning on issuing a formal response as early as this evening or possibly first thing Saturday morning.

He will address the issues of the Favre story, his reasons for leaving SCD, and his future.

Questions to Chris may be directed to our bulletin board by any individual providing a name and email address.

Respectfully,


Troy R. Kinunen
MEARS

[otismalibu]

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As a rule, I try not to piss off anyone who has a pilot's license and who routinely flies over Mississippi swamps.

[allstarsplus]

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not a single post at all from radtke to explain anything?

chris, why not come on and post what happened so we can stop all of his conjecture?

rudy.

I have personally spoken to Rick and hope he will post.

Let's also hope Chris posts. Hopefully Chris Nerat leaving is just a coincidence and is on to greener pastures as they say and this Favre investigative report was his swan song of great work to show everyone that he is an excellent journalist. The article was very impressive and I wish Chris luck in his future endeavors!

[kingjammy24]

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until nerat confirms the reason for his departure, this is all just conjecture. that said, nerat's been oddly silent during this entire thing which seems atypical for him. perhaps he was threatened legally. not sure for what given that his piece wasn't libelous or defamatory. as well, nerat's piece is still up on the front page of SCD's website. if there were some sort of legal threat then you'd think his piece would've been taken down asap. his piece is still on there as is his column. not much point to a legal threat if the item which caused offense is allowed to remain on the website for all the world to see. for all we know, nerat's first good piece caused such a stir in the publishing world that he's now feverishly preparing his first article for the ny times or sports illustrated. perhaps he'd had enough of SCD and turned in his notice and is now swinging on a hammock in tahiti.

for the sake of discussion, if there was a legal threat against nerat and/or SCD you have to wonder where it could've possibly come from. that is, who felt the need to issue such a threat? i doubt it came from favre. favre's involved in too much money to possibly care about the extra $100k a year he was making from his jersey sales. who else would've been affected by the article? radtke and thomason. radtke's also been oddly silent during this huge debacle which has his name splattered all over. when an auction house was offering a vick gamer to which he had exclusive rights he wasted no time in coming here and posting all about it. not a single post at all from radtke to explain anything? perhaps thomason didn't enjoy his livelihood coming under scrutiny. anyway, as i said, its all conjecture. not much point to it. i was actually really looking forward to nerat continuing to dig deeper into this mess and coming out with a second article. chris, why not come on and post what happened so we can stop all of his conjecture?

rudy.

[commando]

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It may be a short while before we really know what happened to Chris, but I have the odds-on-favorite guess:

A company/individual/organization was offended by the Favre article.

This company/individual/organization voiced their displeasure to Krause Publications via a lawyer in the form of a letter or other legal document.

Krause Publications is not interested in a lawsuit at the present time, and decided to offer Chris Nerat as the sacrificial lamb to hopefully end any threat of a lawsuit.


And here's a report of what will happen in the future, according to my crystal ball:

Sports Collectors Digest will continue to maintain its status as the leader of irrelevant hobby news -- until Coach's Corner goes away (the crystal ball's date is a little foggy on this one).

[mvandor]

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UPDATE:

I phoned Chris Nerat at SCD this morning, however, I was told he is no longer employed with Krause Publications/SCD.

Just when we're led to believe that SCD may be "turning the page" in a positve direction, we now learn of this.

Possibly Chris can update this thread.

FYI

Howard Wolf
hblakewolf@comcast.net

Guy does his first solid, legitimate reporting job in eons and suddenly he's G-O-N-E???

Dying to hear what happened as I was expecting and looking forward to a follow up story on this.

[hblakewolf]

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UPDATE:

I phoned Chris Nerat at SCD this morning, however, I was told he is no longer employed with Krause Publications/SCD.

Just when we're led to believe that SCD may be "turning the page" in a positve direction, we now learn of this.

Possibly Chris can update this thread.

FYI

Howard Wolf
hblakewolf@comcast.net

[aeneas01]

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Rudy, on the holograms....the holograms for my jersey, pic, and letter are still on a piece of wax paper that was sent to me with my letter, which I received seperately from my jersey....I'm sure this was a rare case, but that's what led me to believe that the holograms came from Radtke....there was nothing fishy going on, just saving time for me mailing the pic and jersey back and forth to just put the hologram on

from what i understand, per the conversation i had with fan4ever, the holograms in radtke's possession are old stock that are being phased out while the ones issued by fan4ever are the current holograms.

...

[lund6771]

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1. don't forget that when the jays and yankees finally opened their vaults, they had apparently been storing 20+ years worth of jerseys. when the yankees started selling their game-used shirts in 2005, there was stuff in yankee stadium from the 80s.

2. thomason: favre's personal pilot for the past 14 years. part owner of "Fan 4 Ever" in sun prairie, WI along with brian anderson. also partners with anderson in running the official Brett Favre Web site www.OfficialBrettFavre.com. manages favre's autographed memorabilia sales and is involved in the Brett Favre Fourward Foundation, which contributes to community efforts in Wisconsin and Mississippi. "I've worked with Brett now since 1994, coordinating his travels back and forth from Mississippi" says thomason. seems to have connected with favre and built his entire career around him. he led the effort to clamp down on favre forged autographs a few years ago when the feds busted some favre forgery ring. as thomason said "brett signs very little and it comes through me". seems to be favre's sole memorabilia mouthpiece.

rudy.

So it sounds like he's kind of Favre's personal assisstant?...Doesn't sound to lucrative to me?


Rudy, on the holograms....the holograms for my jersey, pic, and letter are still on a piece of wax paper that was sent to me with my letter, which I received seperately from my jersey....I'm sure this was a rare case, but that's what led me to believe that the holograms came from Radtke....there was nothing fishy going on, just saving time for me mailing the pic and jersey back and forth to just put the hologram on

[mvandor]

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thomason said "brett signs very little and it comes through me".

Sure kills the guy's credibility with me, about the only NFL player who signs more is Joe Montana. Ebay alone is FULL of what very much appears to be legit Favre signed items.

[allstarsplus]

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1. don't forget that when the jays and yankees finally opened their vaults, ....

there was stuff in yankee stadium from the 80s.



rudy.

Rudy, not to get off the subject, but the Yankees found items from the early 70's as I picked up some Ron Swoboda pants which I think were 1973.

Back to the subject at hand, a lot of great info, but there seems to be a lot of what if's.

Hopefully Rick Radtke can clear up some up some of the gray areas and maybe Chris Nerat too.

If Thomason has nothing to hide, who wants to email him?
E-mail: fan4ever@verizon.net

[kingjammy24]

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here's thomason's store:

http://www.fan4ever.com/about_us/session_26eabb1e81ac/

seems the "cheaper" favre signed 8x10s run for about $175.

"Since 1992, Fan 4 Ever has had a close relationship with Brett Favre in distributing all of his memorabilia which continues still today. Fan 4 Ever is also proud to be the company behind Brett's own website; OfficialBrettFavre.com "

"..with Brett Favre who's items include a certificate of authenticity, matching Brett Favre holograms, and a photo from the signing session."

if fan 4 ever is slapping favre holograms on their 8x10s then how do these holograms come from radtke, as has been suggested? seems to me they come from thomason. simply because they weren't on in the photos of favre holding the jersey doesn't mean they weren't slapped on the second after the photo was taken.

rudy.

[kingjammy24]

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something that strikes odd to me now, is why are there LOA's on jerseys from the early to mid 90's?

when I've seen the 94 Throwback, a 1993 Jersey, etc..., it led me to believe that these might be coming from Favre's own collection since the letter is being written around 10 some years later...and there is no way that his stuff would have been found in some corner of the equipment room 10 years later

I remember in the mid 90's Gray Flannel bought a ton of Packers stuff right from the team...cleaned them out

but now this smells like GREED....obviously these items wern't in Brett's collection...anyone know what Thomason does for a living?...other than being Brett's buddy?....if this guy is making 30K a year, divorced, and struggleing to make his next rent/mortgage payment, then the writing would be on the wall to me

1. don't forget that when the jays and yankees finally opened their vaults, they had apparently been storing 20+ years worth of jerseys. when the yankees started selling their game-used shirts in 2005, there was stuff in yankee stadium from the 80s.

2. thomason: favre's personal pilot for the past 14 years. part owner of "Fan 4 Ever" in sun prairie, WI along with brian anderson. also partners with anderson in running the official Brett Favre Web site www.OfficialBrettFavre.com. manages favre's autographed memorabilia sales and is involved in the Brett Favre Fourward Foundation, which contributes to community efforts in Wisconsin and Mississippi. "I've worked with Brett now since 1994, coordinating his travels back and forth from Mississippi" says thomason. seems to have connected with favre and built his entire career around him. he led the effort to clamp down on favre forged autographs a few years ago when the feds busted some favre forgery ring. as thomason said "brett signs very little and it comes through me". seems to be favre's sole memorabilia mouthpiece.

rudy.