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BOBBER GETS CHAMPIONSHIP RING
SeaHogs owner buys ‘the Precious’
By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya, Fantasy Sports Network
It’s no secret that ever since he entered the league, Sea Hogs owner Triki Bobber has coveted an NFFA championship ring. Now, FSN has learned, he has one — although he didn’t get it in the traditional way.
Sources at Fantasy Sports Memorabilia, Ltd. confirmed today that Bobber purchased the 2006 NFFA Championship ring from Lex Dominica of the Atlanta Smack Daddies. The company served as a broker for the private sale. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but a company source said the price was “in the low eight figures.”
The Smack Daddies are the only NFFA franchise to have won two league championships, capturing their first title in 2003. That fact, said GM Tony Soprano, figured heavily into the sale. “Frankly, Lex is prouder of that 2003 ring, because that was a tougher game,” Soprano said. “So when the Sea Hogs kept flying up his butt about selling the second ring, he figured, ‘Why not?’ And for that kind of jack — are you kiddin’ me? It was a no-brainer.
“Thing is, I don’t think Bobber even cared that the stone wasn’t a real diamond. He wanted it so bad. We even threw in a truckload of Sanyo DVD players, just so the deal wouldn’t seem so one-sided.”
This afternoon, FSN obtained an exclusive interview with Bobber’s North Korean housekeeper, Fen Hue Park, who said that Bobber keeps the ring on a chain around his neck at all times. “Sometimes, he would just look at it and say, ‘My precious,’” Park said. “He also told one of the girls that if he ever put the Precious on his finger, it would give him a cloak of invisibility. He really creeped me out.”
Bobber, believed to be aboard his yacht, was unavailable for comment.
