Most people who are 32, unemployed and have two kids would trade a football for $20,000, right?
Well, not Scott Shelton, the Seattle Seahawks fan who caught the ball Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse threw into the stands after he caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the NFC championship game, according to Komo News.
Shelton said he was offered $20,000 for the ball by a sports memorabilia dealer, but then on Monday morning he received a call from Kearse.
“My phone rings, and it was Jermaine! Jermaine Kearse, you know? The man!” Shelton told Komo. “We were just talking about the game. He told me he wanted to trade his game helmet signed by the team and his jersey, for the ball. And then he asked me what (else) I wanted for the ball. And I said ‘honestly, it would be nice to go see you guys whip New England in the Super Bowl.’ So he’s going to see what he can do about that. But I told him I wouldn’t give it up unless it was going to him. I wouldn’t want anyone else to have it.”
Shelton’s mother told Komo that if he does go to the Super Bowl, he needs to get back to Washington quickly because a judge will take him into custody at 2 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, where he will start a sentence in jail.
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