Curt Cignetti’s championship headset sells for record $112,500 at auction
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | And you were right about Indiana head coach Kurt Signetti's game worn headset from the college football playoff national championship game. |
| 0:08.1 | You and we could roll back the tape, but I was just too lazy to get it. |
| 0:11.2 | You said that they were going to sell at auction for over $50,000. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah, so this is pretty cool. |
| 0:17.8 | There's this organization that's selling a lot of game-use memorabilia from the Hoosiers run. |
| 0:22.6 | Towels and sport bottles, and those were selling for, you know, several hundred dollars. |
| 0:26.0 | But I knew as soon as I saw this, that the prize piece, you could buy the headset that Kurt Signetti wore during the national championship game versus Miami. |
| 0:35.9 | We talked about this a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:37.4 | I think the bidding was at like $16,000. And I was a bidder on there, and I bid a lot less than that. And I knew that there was- Wait, what? Back up. You bid on those? I did, because I knew I wouldn't win. I knew that I wasn't going to win it, but I just wanted to get a bit in there to participate hating the fun because I knew what the value of it was. And I knew that when I was bidding on it, |
| 0:56.8 | it was only a couple thousand dollars and I wasn't going to ever have to pay that because it was going to go for a lot more than that. And at the time I did say at the time I did say that this headset would sell for at least $50,000, possibly a lot more. And you looked at me like i had lost my mind like i was crazy |
| 1:13.1 | out of my mind i can't imagine somebody spending more than 50 thousand dollars on these headphones i |
| 1:18.1 | mean i'm wearing headphones these are my nice little sony cans and i believe they're 35 |
| 1:22.9 | yeah well kurt signetti wasn't wearing them during during Indiana's only national championship victory for college football. |
| 1:29.5 | So the final sale, the hammer just came down on this auction. |
| 1:33.3 | Last I saw it was $112,500. |
| 1:36.3 | Is it more than that now? |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, so the auction ended yesterday. |
| 1:40.1 | Wow. |
| 1:40.5 | And the final auction was right around $116,000. |
| 1:44.5 | This is what Kurt Signetti's headset that he wore, |
| 1:47.4 | game-worn headset from the National Championship game, |
| 1:50.5 | sold for about $116,000. |
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