Buy a painting of your team number!

[Dan Zollman]

WOW. Are those numbers really what's shown on the bottom of the front page? The plain blue ones with the white background?

I understand that art can be anything and art can be simple. A collage of cutouts from a newspaper can be art and a nail glued to a yellow piece of paper can be art. I can out the letter A in Times New Roman on a normal piece of paper and cut it out, and that's art...right?

Second, we make better paintings of numbers (any color, any size, any font, directly on any surface) for less than a dollar by printing and cutting out letters or numbers, tracing, cutting out of poster or foam board, and using a little spray paint.

I don't know why anybody would pay $60 for one of those or why people would want it enough for the prices to go up that high.

I think it makes a certain statement about our culture, both because those numbers are honored as art and also because such art is valued so highly.