Famed New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath once donated a curious item of sports memorabilia to Planet Hollywood. The item? A pair of pantyhose -- which Namath wore on the field on chilly days.
(Namath once riled animal rights activists by keeping warm on the sidelines in a rabbit fur coat.)

[Many Australian surfers wear pantyhose in the ocean -- to avoid being stung by potentially-deadly box jellyfish.]

[To thwart counterfeiters, "the NFL takes the extraordinary step of having the balls used in the Super Bowl game authenticated with invisible DNA markers, a process also used to authenticate other sports memorabilia."]

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