You can buy a giant '50' statue from Super Bowl 50 (if you really, really want to)

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're all about "keeping it 100," allow us to humbly suggest buying this gigantic "50" statue from the most recent Super Bowl.

Its owner just has to figure out his price first. 

Ed Dunn is the executive director of Building REsources, a company here in San Francisco that sells recycled and repurposed building materials. He says the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee was looking to unload a 12-foot 50 statue and he was the lucky recipient after agreeing to haul it away. 

That was about a week after the Feb. 7 game. Now, almost two months later, Dunn is ready to sell -- but he's not sure for how much. 

"We sell re-used lumber, so we know what that's worth," he told Mashable on Tuesday. "But this is the first time we've had a re-used 50." 

Dunn's for-sale 50 was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. After reading a blurb there, we had to call him for more details. Boy, are we glad we did. 

Numerical statues became a cause célèbre before Super Bowl 50 after they were targeted by mischievous pranksters. To promote the game, statues of the number 50 were set up at iconic San Francisco landmarks -- but several were comically defaced. 

Many saw the massive statues as symbolizing the profit-fueled grotesqueness of mega-events like the Super Bowl, and the statues made easy targets for antipathy. Here's one outside San Francisco City Hall whose letters -- originally spelling out "Super Bowl 50" -- were re-arranged to read "Sup Bro 50."

But this sign -- the sign for sale -- is not one of those signs. It's an even bigger 50 -- 12 feet tall, to be precise. It was set up at Super Bowl City, Super Bowl 50's marketing activation that popped up on the San Francisco waterfront. Visitors to Super Bowl City frequently took photos next to the giant 50 -- photos like this one. 

So thats what we're dealing with here -- an extra big-ass 50. Which is part of the problem, Dunn says. 

It's hard to find someone who both wants a gigantic 50 and has the means to move it. Dunn told Mashable a buyer would need a moving truck to transport the gigantic statue -- then he had a second thought. 

"It actually breaks into pieces that are three or four feet tall," Dunn said. "It's possible you could move it with a flat bed, but you'd need a bunch of people.

"It's a logistics question for the buyer that really wants to follow through," Dunn added. 

So Dunn is at something of an impasse. He's had a few inquiries. ("We haven't thrown around prices yet, but we can tell they're pretty interested," he says.) Part of him thinks holding on to the 12-foot 50 to rent it out for special occasions -- 50th birthday parties, for example -- might be the wiser choice. 

But appraising the giant 50 is difficult, primarily because Dunn doesn't know how many -- if any -- similar 50s are out there floating around nearly two months after the game. 

According to a Super Bowl 50 Host Committee representative, two 12-foot 50s were stationed at Super Bowl City and technically committee property. The other, smaller 50s -- the ones that were plopped at popular landmarks and became equally popular targets for cheeky vandals -- were NFL property. The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee representative, whose reply email was signed simply "Super Bowl 50 Host Committee Media Team," did not specify what became of the other 12-foot 50. 

So Dunn's mission to appraise his giant 50 remains unresolved. 

"We're still trying to research the price based on if this is the only one or not," Dunn said. 

But surely, there must be an offer he can't refuse, an offer that would guarantee a finalized deal. What is that magic number?

Asked this question, Dunn didn't hesitate.  

"Five grand," he said. 

And there you have it. Got $5,000, a flatbed truck and a few burly friends? This 12-foot 50 could be yours.