This is a true story.
I was on the East side of Houston, parking my Packer pete into a parking spot. When I noticed a big green looking rag or something, rolling around in the parking lot. when went over to pick it up I notice it was Donald drivers jersey, my first thought was somebody had just throwed the jersey on the ground, because it was dirty. but till later when I turn the jersry right side out, too my surpise this is what I found.
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That is freaking crazy. Does DD still reside in Houston?
What a find!
Sounds like a trap.
Johnny Jolly is from Houston.
ChilliJon posted:That is freaking crazy. Does DD still reside in Houston?
What a find!
yes he does
DH13 posted:Sounds like a trap.
As in how? I intend to hang it on a wall
Been any bad storms lately? Maybe someone lost it.
GBFanForLife posted:Been any bad storms lately? Maybe someone lost it.
This happened late last fall. I just cant imaged, just misplacing something like that. I think a mad wife or girlfriend throwed it out the window.
Definitely sounds like something a significant other would do.
My version of events of how the jersey ended up in the parking lot.
It was given to a Viking fan as a cruel prank. Viking fan wanted to throw it out but couldn't. Owning something that represented winning was new. Different. Intoxicating. So Viking fan held onto it until he was fired from his job at Best Buy and got evicted last summer. You can only fit so many belongings into a few hefty bags.
Where would a viking fan get a few hefty bags?
Metrodome landfill.
Online sale of what was left from the Metrodome roof.
Viking fans would probably pay a premium for that.
Sweet find! My vote is for a vindictive ex too.
I was in the "pissed-off" girlfriend/wife or both camp.
"girlfriend/wife".......
How crazy is that??!!!
What an incredible find, Bandit!
Would the area you found it in offer any clues to the source? Was it at/near your work or shopping center/mall, etc? Any kind of sports memorabilia stores around? Was it near housing or apartments?
Wonder if it 'washed' there from the recent flooding?
No, I found it in a parking lot of a truck stop. There are some apartments close by. This jersey was laying in the parking lot for some time, just by seeing how dirty it is and how faded the sharpie writing is.
Wow! Great find. All I ever see here in Minny are purple rags after their losses. Nothing I would ever pick up.
Parking lot of a truck stop? I vote for a trucker who was "entertaining" a "lady" in very high heels and very short shorts. When the cop swept the lot, the "lady" leaped out the door on the other side and the trucker put the truck in gear and took off. He saved himself the john ticket but paid dearly by losing the jersey. 
Fandame posted:
Now that very well could be the case, and the lady had no idea who # 80 is.
That is CRAZY!!!!!! Go buy a lottery ticket tonight.
Is there a Driver sig anywhere on the jersey?
bvan posted:Is there a Driver sig anywhere on the jersey?
looks like on top left on the eight
Definately matches the signature, #80 and Go Pack Go of my Driver jersey. My ex-wife still has and I am trying to get it back. If she lived in Houston I would be suspicious.
Why not contact DD? I'd bet he'd love to hear the story.
Fandame posted:Parking lot of a truck stop? I vote for a trucker who was "entertaining" a "lady" ...
Fandame! 
Who? Me? 
bandit posted:ChilliJon posted:That is freaking crazy. Does DD still reside in Houston?
What a find!
yes he does
He doesn't live in Houston. It's well known by the locals that he lives in Flower Mound, the same city I live in. It's just north of Dallas. His home is off of Grapevine Lake. My father saw him at the Home Depot about a week ago.
Driver bleeds green, but Flower Mound is home
Veteran Green Bay receiver Donald Driver confirms that when he moved his family to Flower Mound four years ago, he had his home built in Packers-green stucco.
But that facet of Driver's Super Bowl homecoming isn't as, well, dreamlike, as the rest. He says the color choice was coincidental.
"I don't know if I picked it because of the Packers," he said with a smile. "It just kind of matched up. I liked the color."
