I know it has been quite awhile since my last post. I returned home from my Los Angeles trip early last week...which was nothing short of amazing (saw a few shows including an epic Sunday nighter with the hottest second set in recent memory!). Anyway, a mere hours after touching down at JFK I walked into the set up for the largest team signing I have ever done. This signing with the 1969 Jets team was to begin a day later so we had to jump right on the elaborate set-up. It was, by far, the most amount of helmets I have and probably ever will do with a team. We secured a huge room outside of our office..in the same complex. It took practically the entire day just to cart all the helmets to the location (let alone set them). In the end it was a strong job by all involved and we were ready to roll to following afternoon. The plan for the signing was simple...23 guys in 54 hours. Joe Namath had signing the pieces about a month ago so, in the end, it would be a total of 24 signatures on our impressive product. What I had not realized going into the monster signing was that it would take a minimum of 6 and 1/2 hours to complete the marathon. It actually took most guys somewhere between 7 and 1/2 and 8 hours to get through it. That made for quite a long night on the first day (we did not begin until about 2:00 PM that day) and then we started really early on Thursday. When all was said and done we were..somehow..in unbelievable shape by the last shift on Friday. The last two guys to sign were Matt Snell and Emerson Boozer who were finally done about 7:00 PM. As the last guys signed we had a strong crew shadowing them and breaking down the set-up..and carting everything back to our warehouse. Timing wise (other than a slight jam-up on the first shift) everything worked out perfectly. The end result is ridiculously strong. Unlike the current Giants pieces you can perfectly read every single name on the product. Each guy wrote out every letter of their name which makes for arguably the most robust team items we have ever gotten signed...a close second is the 1999 Women's World Cup team product (which is nothing short of incredible). I am extremely proud of the pieces and of everyone involved in the process...especially Margaret who coordinated everything.

This is actually a fairly quiet week for me. Traditionally the week before Memorial Day weekend is not too busy with signings....there may be one or two small signings so still keep a look out. Anyway, over the next week or so I will be previewing June as well as talking about some exciting non-signing related things going on here. We all know by now it is going to be a long summer here in New York with both baseball teams underachieving so feel free to email me questions and suggestions on ways for the blog to remain strong and competitive...unlike our teams as of late.