LOS ANGELES — Vintage college football tickets and field passes are the main medium for Todd Marinovich’s latest art piece. They belonged to his grandfather, and he plans to collage them and layer his impressionistic painting style on top.

“I’m stoked to have them,” Marinovich said. “I don’t know why he kept them, but now I’ve got them. It’s so much history when you’re looking at different stadiums that they’re playing in – different teams, different years.”

The piece is on pause, however, as Marinovich once again plunges into his own history. But this time, it’s on his own terms.

Marinovich was the top player in his high school recruiting class and went on to be a Rose Bowl-winning quarterback at USC before becoming the first-round NFL draft pick of the then-Oakland Raiders. His early

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