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Hit and Run
Anyone who worries that O.J. Simpson is going to starve now that he’s right up there with Adolph Eichmann on the List Of People You Don’t Want To Sponsor Your Product should call Scott Andreadis.
Andreadis, an electrical contractor from Egg Harbor Township, is expecting to make a fair killing on an item of memorabilia that is proof O.J. won’t want for juice no matter how much people despise him.
The item is a reprint of an old Simpson football card that the no-longer-incarcerated ex-football star signed back in the dark days when he was eating prison slop.
The card is numbered (118 out of 150), pressed in plastic and “authenticated” by a man named Mike Gilbert, “Simpson’s agent.”
Andreadis and his friend, Dennis McCarthy, paid $1,300 for the card, which they purchased from a dealer in Las Vegas earlier this year. They expect to sell the card for at least $5,000.
“That’s nothing,” he says. “There are statues of O.J. going for $15,000 to $20,000.”
Andreadis says he does not know how much O.J. was paid for signing the card, other than that he did not do it out of the kindness of his heart for some fan.
“He signed a lot of these things,” says Andreadis. “He was trying to raise some quick capital.”
What does Andreadis think of having the card in his possession?
“We get a lot of mileage out of it when we show it at parties,” he says. “People fondle it. We are married guys, but if we were single, we’d get laid.”
— Howard Altman
