Trent Richardson and Alabama Teammates Sign Autographs for Disassociated Booster Tom AlbetarPublished on: February 06, 2012 | Written by: Clay Travis13Now that Trent Richardson, Marquis Maze, Dre Kirkpatrick, Brad Smelley, Josh Chapman, Courtney Upshaw, and Mark Barron are all professionals guess where did they decide to sell their autographs?Yep, you guessed it, at T-Town Menswear, the place of business of disassociated Alabama booster Tom Albetar.You'll recall that back in the summer Alabama kindly notified OKTC they had disassociated Albetar from the university and that none of the players had known their autographs were being sold by the former booster.So it's an amazing coincidence that seven members of Alabama's 2012 class happened to show right back up at T-Town Menswear and cash in barely a week after their eligibility ended.I mean, how could they ever have known that there was money to be made off their signatures?Now doing business on Facebook as T-Town Gallery, Albetar and crew advertised the signing just 11 days after the BCS title game in New Orleans."AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: Friday January 20, 2012: Mark Baron, Marquis Maze, Dont'a Hightower, Dre Kirkpatrick, Courtney Upshaw, Josh Chapman, and Brad Smelley from 5pm to 9pm. $200 for all signatures or $35 a piece.Saturday, January 21, 2012: Trent Richardson with Roy Upchurch from 5pm to 7 pm. $50 for both signatures."Here are the players signing on January 20th. You can check out the gallery here.And here's our old chum Albetar, the disassociated Bama booster, posing with Big Al at the signing. (Hell, maybe it's a fake Big Al which would be perfect. Will the fake Big Al get a cease and desist letter from the university too? Will the fake Big Al also ignore it and keep thumbing its nose at the NCAA?)But the most interesting thing about the galleries posted online which you can check out here is how downright similar the Trent Richardson pictures from 2011 look to the Trent Richardson pictures from 2012.Here are the pictures from 2012 of Trent signing multiple jerseys:Now these are from Richardson signing multiple jerseys in 2011, before his junior year with the Crimson Tide.These objects were put up for sale and Alabama argued that Richardson had no knowledge of that fact and received no compensation.Does anyone not wearing crimson colored glasses really believe that Trent Richardson didn't know Tom Albetar was selling his autographs back in 2011? If so, why did he go back to Albetar as soon as he could in 2012 to let him sell more autographs?Because he knew that Albetar was damn good at selling his signed objects.Think about this for a minute, of all the places in Tuscaloosa to sell their autographs seven Alabama players chose to go to the only disassociated booster running a store in town. The only one. And that's not shady as hell? Why did they do this?Simple -- because they'd already sold their autographs before.And if you're Alabama, why in the world does a disassociated booster still have the run of your team in Tuscaloosa?I'll tell you, because if Tom Albetar ever decided to squeal, those two Bama national titles would disappear in a heartbeat. (Here's Julio Jones signing a stack of jerseys at the same store before the 2009 national title.) Think that might be why Nick Saban still isn't even putting the store off limit to his players? Because he knows Tom Albetar has the goods to sink his program if he ever talked?Yep.Meanwhile how close are Albetar and Trent Richardson? He even travels with him to autograph events in other cities now. In Alabama polo shirts with Trent Richardson's name and jersey number on them.Stylin'.This picture was taken last weekend in Gadsden, Alabama.Yeah, there's nothing shady going on here at all.(Insert Alabama fan "your gay" insult here).Regardless, I'm not going to lie, I like the guts here. These Bama players just shot the equivalent of two double birds at the NCAA. And Trent Richardson just drove over the top of them in one of his three luxury vehicles.Roll Tide roll.
What does that say about the AD? When you have a Disassociated Booster...associating himself with players along with having them signing jerseys just like before.
It says the president of the NCAA is scared to throw dirt because of his past association with the shrimpy scumbag now at UA.
You know, bama football is seriously like crack to this dude.
So Tom Albetar changed his name to Tom Sadow?So I guess the cease & desist and "dissociation" no longer applies to this individual. That was Tom Albetar. This is Tom Sadow. God, these barners are pathetic!
The pic in that article, you can tell it's not a real Big Al. Both look dumb, but ours is gooder than that one he has.
You can't use the likeness. The University would shut that shit down quicker than a gay rights parade...unless they condone the use. Hmmm....
You can't use the likeness. The University would shut that shitake down quicker than a gay rights parade...unless they condone the use. Hmmm....
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