Lords of the (Super Bowl) Rings

As tradition holds, the team that wins the Super Bowl gets some nice looking Super Bowl rings as an award. The simple fact of knowing that you’re team was the best in a given year is nice, and you can surely look up the winner in the history books, but for the players who were part of a championship team, having a ring– their own personal Lombardi Trophy– is of the utmost importance. Like most symbols of hard work and determination, Super Bowl rings and their owners develop quite a relationship. Some players like to show them off, while others presumably keep them under lock and key, while still others lose them altogether.

There’s a nice feature at ESPN that documents a story or personal take on one Super Bowl ring and its champion from every year the Bowl has existed. There’s a lot of them, so it might just be wise to pick a few players to hear from, especially if you think their personalities- and thus ring handlings- are very different. There’s one about Michael Irivn and there’s one about Steve Young, two players with opposite personalities who won at about the same times. Needless to say, they have different ideas about which rings were the most important to them.

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