rzb+ 367 Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The scope of Ohio State football has spread to the History Channel. On Monday night's episode of "Pawn Stars," a popular reality show series about a Las Vegas pawn shop, two pairs of Gold Pants, the trinket given to Ohio State players for a victory over Michigan, were sold to the pawn shop for $1,000 each. Given what happened in December, the sale raised a few eyebrows. Just before Christmas, Ohio State announced that five players were suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia. Among the memorabilia sold were the Gold Pants of Terrelle Pryor and Solomon Thomas for the 2008 OSU victory over Michigan. Players selling that memorabilia as undergrads violates NCAA rules. Players selling that memorabilia after they've graduated, or after their eligibility is up, is fine. So there's no way to know whether the pants matter or not. The seller on the show, who was identified only by his first name, said he bought the pants from a private collector. They were marked with initials and with the year of the game. One was from 2008, the other from 2002. On the show, the seller said he believed the 2008 pants stamped with "DW" belonged to former defensive lineman Doug Worthington, who played with the Buckeyes through the 2009 season. But Worthington called into Columbus radio station 97.1 WBNS-FM on Tuesday to say that he'd given all five of his gold pants, for beating Michigan five times, to family members and they were all accounted for. "They're super rare. I definitely want them," Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars before buying the pants. A spokesperson for the production company that produces Pawn Stars was unable to provide any more information about the sale when contacted on Tuesday. SOURCE: Cleveland.com Oh man, great timing. Edited April 8, 2011 by rzb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
