Saturday, January 26, 2008
January 26th - Y.A. Tittle
Early this morning (when it still dark out) I headed over to our office to begin setting up for a few Giants signings. Michael Strahan and Amani Toomer are slated to sign after practice today. The reason that I had to come set up so early was that Giants legend Y.A. Tittle was appearing at Last Licks Scarsdale at 12:00. My plan (which worked perfectly) was to set up for Stra and Amani then pop over to Scarsdale for the Tittle signing. I literally walked in the door at Last Licks right a minute after Y.A. did. I had all my product dropped off there last night so I was ready to roll. We got Tittle up there a little early as he is a little older and takes a little longer the sign. Before the public even started we were able to knock out almost all of the private items. As you all know the big piece with Y.A. is the "Blood" photo. It is one of the most classic football images of all time and has always been one of our strongest sellers. Y.A. likes the Giants chances next Sunday but we did not talk too much about it. The bulk of the conversation was about lower Westchester in general. He lived down the street (in Eastchester) from the Scarsdale store while playing for the G-Men and told us all about the restaurants and life in the area back in the day...it was really cool to hear. Y.A. also told us about what it was like to play football in Yankee Stadium and sit on the bench and locker room where Ruth and Gehrig sat. Tittle claimed that most teams were so awestruck by that they would come into they game down by seven already. Anyway, there was a pretty legit crowd on hand. I am starting to notice a lot of the same faces at these Giants signings (L.T., Bavaro, Harry Carson). There is such a strong connection between these Giants players and the fans. Many of the customers have multi-signed unique "Giants Greats" pieces that I have seen being worked on for years. It is all very cool. I left the Y.A. appearance early as to come back here to finish preparing for this afternoon's festivities. That brings me to this very moment where I am awaiting the arrival of the only two Giants remaining from the 2000 Super Bowl team. Check back later for the post-game analysis.

posted by Steiner Sports at 11:16 AM