'Hardcore Pawn's' Seth Gold Would Pay '$15 To $20K' For Deflategate Footballs
DETROIT (WWJ) -- A local pawn shop owner is sending a message to the NFL -- "I'd love to buy your footballs."
Seth Gold, whose family owns Hardcore Pawn's American Jewelry and Loan said that he would pay up to $20,000 for just one of the balls at the center of the New England Patriots' "Deflategate" scandal.
But Gold doesn't think the NFL would want to sell.
"Tom Brady is one of the most accomplished quarterbacks to have a kind of scandal around his name," Gold said. "I don't know that the NFL is going to be so ready to put them forth to the consumers quite yet."
Gold says while he graduated from the University of Michigan and would love have a souvenir of Tom Brady's career, if he got hold one of the footballs, he'd probably sell it -- he says it's in his blood.
"With me being a Michigan guy I'm a fan of Tom Brady, this has a little bit of controversy drawn to his name," Gold said. "But, you know what, if you're going to go down as one of the best quarterbacks anything that you do is going to get scrutinized like crazy.
"So, who wouldn't want to get their hands on this collection?," Gold said.