# Justin Herbert rookie card at silent auction results in meatball sub bidding war

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/justin-herbert-rookie-card-at-silent-auction-results-in-meatball-sub-bidding-war/
- Published: 2026-11-13T04:13:45+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T04:19:56+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/12/sports/justin-herbert-rookie-card-silent-auction-meatball-sub-bidding-war/
- Topics: Football, Sport, World

## Key points

- A Herbert rookie card auction drew bids of meatball subs.
- The sandwich joke riffs on quarterbacks’ interceptions.
- The Chargers were 0-8 and averaging 15.1 points per game.

## Summary

A silent auction at a gym turned a Justin Herbert rookie card into the focus of a joke bidding war, with people offering meatball subs instead of money. The teasing reflects a wider internet gag linking sandwiches to interceptions, and comes as Herbert and the Chargers face a difficult season.

The card, paired with a framed 8×10 photograph, had a starting bid of $250. Bids of one, two and then three meatball subs were posted after a photo of the auction appeared on X. Herbert and Drake Maye were tied for the league lead with 11 interceptions at the time of the article, but the Chargers were 0-8 and averaging 15.1 points per game; they had just lost 44-22 to Houston.

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