🚨 PSA just got hit with a massive class action lawsuit claiming its entire multi-billion-dollar grading empire started with a known FRAUD.
Certificate #00000001 - the first card they ever graded - was a secretly trimmed T206 Honus Wagner.
THE GRADER KNEW IT WAS ALTERED. PSA’s own rules banned it. They graded it NM-MT 8 anyway, never disclosed it, and never pulled the grade.
That same slab later sold for $2.8 million and is still certified.
The complaint calls it the blueprint for a $15 BILLION market built on a lie.
Every dollar counts.
Every memory matters.
Every story adds to the tapestry that is Kyra’s 28 years.
To everyone who has donated: thank you doesn’t seem descriptive enough. To everyone who will donate: Our family promises to make every dollar count.
To Kyra: you will never be forgotten and your fund will help ensure this nightmare can be avoided or mitigated for other young people and their families and friends.
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The takeaway from Friday isn’t,
“The market briefly collapsed because of a Tweet”
It’s that every participant KNOWS these valuations are insane relative to the underlying economy
Friday’s lesson: When the time really comes, it won’t take much to topple this Jenga Pile
October 11, 1981
"THE FRED DEAN EFFECT"
The upstart #49ers crush the favored #Cowboys at Candlestick, 45-14 — Dallas's worst loss in eleven years.
Days prior to the contest, San Francisco acquired future HOF defensive end Fred Dean in a trade with the Chargers.
Fred had practiced with the Niners only twice prior to playing this game.
The 49ers jumped out to a 24-0 lead early in the second quarter. However the real story of this game, in my opinion, is Dean.
San Francisco had a fair 3-2 record entering the contest. However, after the addition of Fred Dean, who joined forces with a now-healthy Dwaine Board on the D-line — and paired with the 49ers' talented, rookie-laden secondary — the team would win 13 of its next 14 games en route to the franchise's first Super Bowl championship.
Dean would take home UPI's NFC Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1981, and his play would be a major catalyst in the 49ers' rise to a dynasty in the 1980s. #FTTB
Video includes:
• Rare CBS Sports' network feed broadcast footage of:
· Open and pregame with Pat Summerall and John Madden
· Pat and John's "hot-mic" comments during the end of the first quarter network commercial break
· Fred Dean's dominant three-play sequence late in the first half
• NFL Films footage featuring hilarious stories from Randy Cross and Ronnie Lott about the game and about Dean🚬