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Does a Heisman Trophy Ring Qualify As a "Real" Championship Ring?

This is a tough call but in my book, no this is not a legitimate "Championship Ring", here's why: (and it has nothing to do with the design of the ring)

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First off, I am not implying that the ring shown above, or any of the Heisman Trophy rings (including the one selling on ebay this week) are fakes or replicas.

Like the Heisman trophy itself, the rings are made by the Herff Jones company. The ring is made of 14K solid yellow gold and contains an assortment of real diamonds.

What I am stating, in my opinion, is that the Heisman Trophy, championship style rings, are not really championship rings and the strongest reason I have is that the majority of these rings were made and given to award winners decades after they won their award. I forget the exact year the rings were designed and created, but I believe its been during the last two decades.

The Downtown Athletic Club of New York, has been awarding the Heisman trophy since 1935. When they started to award rings along with one of the most iconic trophies in all of sports, they retroactively made and distributed rings to all the previous winners. If the player had already passed, the ring was given to their family.

Another reason I dont believe these rings should be considered championship rings, is that players dont covert the ring. The trophy is amazing (the player gets one and their school gets one). Besides the trophy, there is tremendous prestige in being named the best college player in the country. Can you recall who was the NFL most valuable player 10 years ago? Probably not, but you probably can name the Heisman trophy award winner though. Unlike a Super Bowl ring or a World Series ring, the Heisman Trophy ring is an afterthought.

So, in my opinion no, a Heisman Trophy ring is not a true championship ring, but perhaps other collectors and championship ring enthusiasts see things differently.

What do you think?

I'd call it an accomplishment ring, like a hall of fame or career achievement ring.

The Heisman is a great honor, but it's a trophy not a championship.

I think I like the Patriots staff ring better than the player ring.

I'm heading to China in the spring, I wonder if I'll find them for sale in any of the shops?

One of my students brought in his mom's employee ring from the 2002 Red Wings. I'll try to post a pic later on today.

More Brodeur

Not sure I would change a championship ring if I earned one. Maybe have a custom one made as well, but I don't think I would alter the one awarded to me.

Jared Lorenzen, much like the Universe itself, is infinitely expanding.

Can I nominate this for post of the day?

No. Let me explain how Post of the Day works - You must be invited to the council of 12. Once then you have to propose a vote by writing a handwritten letter to each member of the Council of 12. The 37 member council meets in a secret location 4 days after the postage date on said letter (not Toronto, I'll tell ya that much). From there they each cast yay or nay votes on the proposed post by placing a photo of the new Blue Jays uniforms (yay) or a photo of the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms (nay) into a box. Chris Creamer himself reads the votes. If 69% (this is an internet message board) of the vote dictates that said post is worthy of PotD then all 19 keyholders must simultaneously turn their matching keys on a second box where a flashdrive holding the png file of the PotD belt is kept. Then it is up to one of the keyholding members to feel like going through the trouble of responding to said post with the image of the belt.

Acheiving Council status is very difficult. One way to assure you'll never be on the council is to nominate lame posts for Post of the Day.

Nevermind, this is PotD worthy! Quick question, why is a 37 member council known as the Council of 12? Was it originally just 12 guys, and 15 more were added later or something like that?

Wouldn't that make it the council of 27 then?

Thankfully the NHL never went with hypercolor jerseys.

I'll be going to the land of the counterfeits in the Spring. I'm curious to see how they are marketed/sold there.

Not a fan of that Kings ring.

Those who purchase counterfeit jerseys cannot be arrested unless there was ample evidence they planned to sell the jerseys or were making a profit from them, correct?

I may be incorrect, but would the buyer be in some sort of legal trouble if they knowingly purchased counterfeit materials?

I had no idea he was anywhere but Cleveland.

^^^^that doesn't help I still have no clue who that is hahahaha

Really? He has been one of the best players in the game and top jerseys sellers for the last decade.

^^^^^^^^^Pavel Datsyuk

He posted it on his Twitter and FB pages today:

San Francisco?

The Boston Bruins yellow alternate uniforms of 1995-2006 would have been received a lot better had they simply had a Spoked B instead of the Pooh Bear logo.

Doesn't seem to be that unpopular of an idea, I thought that all along

The Avalanche were almost the Rocky Mountain Extreme

Holy crap, did my mom write that?

The 2006/07 Anaheim Ducks and any other NHL team.

Why does FSU have two National Champion rings?

For the sake of curiosity, is the screen we got the one people get when they get suspended?

I got that too.