You HAVE to be kidding.....?

Woman Sells 'Eagles Logo' Omen Cereal
February 04, 2005 5:20 PM EST

READING, Pa. - A woman will collect $760 for a bowl of cereal with an image resembling the Philadelphia Eagles' logo that she put on online auction site eBay.

Caryl L. Ludwig said that the image formed out of green Apple Jacks pieces in her daughter's green breakfast bowl. Ludwig said the bowl once belonged to her grandfather, who was a lifelong Eagles fan, and suggested that it could bring good luck to the Eagles in Sunday's Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.

She photographed the image of the cereal and bowl and auctioned off the contents, minus the milk.

The winner of the auction, which ended Thursday, was Ralph Garman, who summoned friends to contribute to the bid.

"We would have paid up to $1,000," said Garman of Los Angeles, an actor and a morning radio personality on KROQ-FM. "Apple Jacks" and "Jacksonville" even share part of their names, he said.

"Every little bit helps," said Garman, a Philadelphia native. "Why take any chances?"

Ludwig said that among the 57 bids were New England Patriots fans who threatened to bury the cereal near the team's Gillette Stadium to nullify the good luck "omen," and Internet casino GoldenPalace.com, which recently paid $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich containing what the seller claimed was the likeness of the Virgin Mary.

Ludwig said she would glue the dried-out cereal pieces to cardboard in the shape that was pictured in the bowl. She said she never expected the cereal would sell for such a sum.

"I'm just sitting here numb," she said Thursday after the auction ended. "It's unbelievable."