An authentication website has verified over 2,000 items containing the signature of Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston.
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It’s no secret that Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston likes to give out his autograph. The signal caller can often be seen at his own sporting events, especially baseball, giving out his signature to fans. There’s of course nothing wrong with doing such as he’s not getting paid.
Of course there are many out there who’d like to pay Jameis Winston for his autograph and there is mounting speculation that such could be occurring given a recent leaked which suggested a company has authenticated over 2,000 autographs from Jameis Winston.
That might not be a staggering number but it’s the items on which the signature resides that has many wondering if there is some shenanigans going on according to ESPN.
"Winston has signed a tremendous number of autographs in public, particularly at baseball games, but the fact that hundreds of signed jersey numbers and more than 50 signed jerseys, photos and mini helmets were sequentially numbered by the authentication company’s website suggests the possibility that the signatures might have come from an organized signing event."
An investigation by the Worldwide Leader found more authenticated autographs from Jameis Winston than originally thought.
"An in-depth search of the verification page on the James Spence Authentication website reveals the company has authenticated more than 2,000 signatures by Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, up from the more than 900 signatures that were found on the database of the site earlier this week."
While it’s hard to begrudge a collegiate athlete for simply giving their autograph given the amount of money they can make, it’s obviously against the rules and punishment will be handed out to those involved if such a scenario was going on.
It should be stressed that as of right now it doesn’t appear as if the NCAA is looking into such (Florida State is, however) though we’ve seen reports leak from major media sources before and they end up being the spark that starts the wild fire.
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