Jul 2nd 2008 9:22PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: Redskins, Vikings, Minnesota, Washington, DCIf you go to eBay right now you can bid on an autographed rookie card of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. No surprise there.

But it is a little surprising that the seller, identified as cooley717523, is none other than Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley. Cooley explains on the Shutdown Corner blog that he has always loved football cards, and he and his wife are now becoming collectors and sellers:
At home with hundreds of cards, we decided that it would be fun to create our own account on eBay and sell them. We tried to take great pictures and then describe the cards. Christy wants to describe every card as beautiful. I don’t know if that’s a great way to describe a card, but it seems catchy enough.
We have our first cards listed for sale and three of them have bids already. I’m pretty sure we’ll spend way more money buying cards than we’ll ever make on them, but we’ve had a blast giving it a try.
Cooley has set the starting bid on the Peterson card at $150.