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Help needed to restore old/worn football (LSU memorabilia)

Posted on 6/6/14 at 8:54 pm
Posted by JPLSU1981
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
26452 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 8:54 pm
I'm hoping someone on the rant can help me or at least point me in the direction of someone locally in BR that can help me with this.

When I was a senior at LSU (2003), I went around and got all the current coaches/AD/chancellor to sign a football so that I could have a unique piece of memorabilia to remember my senior year and the various coaches that were at LSU alongside with me....as you see in the pictures, I got:
-Nick Saban
-Skip Bertman (AthlDirector)
-Mark Emmert (Chancellor)
-Sue Gunter, women's bball
-Smoke Laval, baseball
-John Brady, basketball
-Yvette Girouard, softball

Unfortunately, I've moved a couple times since then, and somewhere along the way that football got forgotten by me and stored in a moving box and eventually ended up in a Non-climate-controlled shed in my backyard.......as you can see in the pictures, the football itself is in pretty bad/ragged shape, especially the one football-leather quadrant.....it's like melted or simply dried out or something. The white quadrants are pretty dried/cracked as well.

Does anyone have any experience with or know someone that could possibly "restore" this football? This thing means significantly more to me now than it did when I first got all the signatures in 2003, and i want to take care of it like it needs to be going forward. Much much thanks to someone that can point me in the right direction.








This post was edited on 6/6/14 at 8:59 pm
Posted by ItsThatDude12
Giving out Mercy Knees
Member since Apr 2009
9927 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:00 pm to
Honestly it doesn't look in too bad of shape. You can try and restore the brown leather yourself and put it in a glass case somewhere and it'll be fine
Posted by TheDude321
Member since Sep 2005
3170 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:04 pm to
No Pat Henry...the greatest track and field coach in NCAA history?

I'm not sure how much it costs to restore the brown leather part of it, but it might be cheaper to just paint the brown part purple or gold.
Posted by ULL Cool J
Member since Jun 2008
924 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 9:07 pm to
Whatever you do, don't mess with the white part and the signatures. All you can do is make it worse with tampering. As the other poster stated, it's not that bad. I'd leave it alone and take care of it from now on as it is.
Posted by PortCityTiger82
Shreveport, LA
Member since Nov 2010
6564 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 10:56 pm to
If you want to make it look a little better without chancing it then just rub the brown side down with some leather conditioner a few times to darken it back up so the color matches and it doesn't look splotchy.
Posted by la_birdman
Northern GA via Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2005
31066 posts
Posted on 6/6/14 at 11:26 pm to
I think it looks rather good to be honest. You can get some leather oil and put that on the brown side of the football and try to brighten that up but I think it looks really good.


Get a little plexiglass box and put it in there. Keep it in your house and display it.


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