Buying Piece Of A Roof Is Now Cool

Tampa Bay Rays are making money in ways no one ever thought was possible...

Sports memorabilia is a huge market where millions of dollars are exchanged in any given year. The Tampa Bay Rays are pushing the limits to what we consider a "valuable" piece of memorabilia from a professional sports team.

This may be the single most Florida thing to happen to Florida since the movie "Miami Vice".

Selling pieces of your destroyed roof from a hurricane that happened during the offseason is a crazy marketing move, that seemed to work on this young gentleman up top. Sure, it is only $15 but there are a FLURRY of things on my list that I would spend $15 on.

My new hero

This memorabilia was being sold during a locker room cleanout (from a team that is currently in the beginnings of their season, not year end like it normally is). Imagine leaving a professional baseball team's locker room cleanup with a Louisville Slugger and a big white tarp from the roof. AMERICA!

The St. Petersburg city council just voted 7-1 to approve $22.5M toward a new roof for the stadium after Hurricane Milton tore through the old one. That’s nearly half of the $55.7M needed for full repairs, and while it fulfills the city’s obligation as the Rays’ landlord, not everyone is thrilled.

I hope that the city of St. Petersburg and the entire Rays Nation can band together and cover the other half of the roof repair cost, one $15 piece of roof at a time...

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