What Darren Rovell was saying about autograph authentications a month ago

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Rovell was readily dismissing the idea that autographs were anything but authentic. But the authenticator wouldn't help him advance his story by giving him the name of the person who submitted the autographs for authentication, so Rovell then spoke to others in the industry about the authentications.

I'm reporting with @Mark_Schlabach that FSU is looking into Jameis Winston autographs that have been authenticated.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 13, 2014

James Spence, owner of authentication firm JSA, says he is "very confident" that 900+ Winston signatures company looked at are real.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 14, 2014

Seems legit, I guess.

Authenticator says Winston autographs are, in his company's opinion, legit. Is the next move for Jameis to say they're not real?

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 14, 2014

#SarcasmFail

@nolesq thats exactly why people pay extra to have it authenticated by JSA.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 17, 2014

Paying more makes things 11% more authentic

@RickJones64 correct. They authenticate 400K pieces a year. Does Jameis complete every pass?

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 15, 2014

This, this is just a terrible analogy.

@darrenrovell@mfwakefield bad analogy. No one expects a QB to be better than. 99% accurate. Authentication biz should be or it's worthless.

— Jeffrey Higgins (@JeffreyHiggins) October 17, 2014

And many on twitter recognized it as such.

@dannykanell 1. JSA is top 2 in authentication biz. 2. They get enough right to stay on top.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 16, 2014

@Worthy1ne@madseminole again if they get too many wrong, they lose their biz. If these Winston's are fake, they will lose ton of biz.

— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) October 17, 2014