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One lucky player!

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Yeah their nice quality. If I had more room I'd like to get 4 and set them up like they are at Lambeau Field.

I have no connection to this at all but thought it was interesting.

My personal over/under on how long before the folks at NFL Business Ventures (nee NFL Properties) shuts this operation down because it's not licensed? 10 1/2 days.

I'll take the over

Have you seen how many things sell on ebay? I'll take "over" too! My favorite items are the full-size and player-size Lombardi super bowl trophies!

Like this trophy?

I have no connection to this at all but thought it was interesting.

My personal over/under on how long before the folks at NFL Business Ventures (nee NFL Properties) shuts this operation down because it's not licensed? 10 1/2 days.

I'll take the over

Wow never seen that before. The top also looks different. .

A long time ago on this forum we discussed about the size of the Packers shareholders rings. Well I decided to compare it to the Packers 1997 NFC Championship ring and as you can see the size difference is noticeable.

I makes sense to give a ring for the hiesman as you can't carry the trophy around and show it off. It's a nice ring I like the design.

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

I agree,that Patriots ring was always one I consider the worst for super bowl rings.

Yeah here's a great example is the Patriots last SB ring. Here's the players ring.

and here's what office people got,looks different and it's non gold and faux diamonds

Anyone besides me thinks it ridiculous tv-commentators also get a championship ring ? I Turn on a NBA game and the 2 commentators are sitting there flashing those hugeass rings.....should be players/coaches only imo

Everyone gets them now. Office people,security guards you name it. Those rings though aren't made like the players. No Gold or diamonds.

Here is a great illustration I found on the internet that shows the evolutionary design changes to Super bowl rings.

The three Jostens Super Bowl rings shown above clearly illustrates the bling trend but fails to show the growing size trend.

Bloomberg could have made their illustration much clearer had they shown the rings in their proper sizes. In real life, the Giant ring in the middle is larger than the Packers championship ring and the Ravens super bowl ring shown on the right is twice as large as the Giants ring.

The ring on the left, from the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl I victory, weighed 40 grams of 14K solid gold and contained a one carrot diamond.

The middle ring, made, twenty one years later, grew to 45 grams. While more than half the super bowl rings produced are made of 14K gold, the Giants ring was made of 10K solid gold. Because 10K is around 10% lighter than 14K gold, the Giants ring is approximately 20% larger than the Packers ring. Theres a single large marquise (football shaped) diamond that is larger than the Super Bowl I diamond, and 8 smaller diamonds make up the bottom of the Lombardi trophy.

The Ravens ring on the right, is a humungous ring. The Ravens Super Bowl ring has a mind boggling 245 diamonds and includes two large marquise diamonds above their logo. The championship ring is around 90 grams and made of 10K solid white gold.

Will this trend continue?

I wrote about it, you-know-where, so if you have any interest, feel free to check it out.

Yeah while it doesn't show size it definitely shows the diamond amount and it's amazing. Even if you look at the Jets super bowl 3 ring there was already a jump up as theirs had more than the first 2 rings combined.

Yeah that haha sorry was in a few conversations at once. Someone still needs to do some photoshopping for me

Considering the Packers don't use a green "G", I'm not sure I want to see that.

If cut stones are so important, replace the stone tablet with a series of cut emeralds next time.

That or make the G out of diamonds with a border of emeralds. That would be what the logo is to a T

The use of the colored stones is really cool. Of the two, I prefer the 2006 Steelers Super Bowl ring. It's one of my favorite SB rings. I've never liked the shape of their 2009 rings.

This is exactly what I'm thinking. Now put a G made out of emeralds there and BOOM! Who can photoshop this for me?

The Packers used green on their last ring:

But maybe more next time.

Yeah but it's just a piece of plastic. Not a gem stone. I look at the Celtics like I mentioned before but also the 2008 Steelers ring where they used different colored stones for the logo. Just looks so much nicer.

Following up on those Super Bowl I rings, I remembered that the cufflinks given to team officials featured emeralds atop the globe. Here's the set owned by then-team president Lee Joannes:

That gives us an idea of what the rings would have looked like, had Lombardi not insisted on a diamond.

I'm still surprised that the Packers have never used emeralds in any of their rings. To me it would look awesome if they did. Just look at the Celtics ring from 2008.

To me have the "G" in the middle in emeralds surrounded by diamonds in the shape the Lombardi trophy. I mean these rings just pop for the Celtics when you see them.

That Chiefs ring looks like the Packers' World Championship ring from 1965.

The Chiefs buy from Jostens as well? Was that one of their stock designs?

And, while you probably know this, the stone at the center of the glove of that Packer Super Bowl I ring was originally supposed to be an emerald. Vince Lombardi liked the design but insisted that "my boys deserve diamonds!"

I remember hearing that story about the first ring. Wonder how true that is.

I came across this on Twitter. Supposedly these were ring designs that the SF Giants rejected in 2010 and 2012.

I like the top left and bottom right.

Apparently the winning team will have little input on what appears on the CFB playoff championship rings...

Jostens just announced that they've been selected to make the championship ring for the new playoffs in college football. Here's what they put on their Facebook page. This might be replacing the one the ncaa gives to all teams. Not the team designed ring. I like it better than the old one of that's the case.

Simulpost!

Very nice ring, but it reminds me a lot of this one...

Yeah it does look like that one. It's a far better design than the old one. I hated the old one.

Here's the old design

Apparently the winning team will have little input on what appears on the CFB playoff championship rings...

Jostens just announced that they've been selected to make the championship ring for the new playoffs in college football. Here's what they put on their Facebook page. This might be replacing the one the ncaa gives to all teams. Not the team designed ring. I like it better than the old one of that's the case.

Simulpost!

Haha!! Gotta be faster man lol

Jostens just announced that they've been selected to make the championship ring for the new playoffs in college football. Here's what they put on their Facebook page. This might be replacing the one the ncaa gives to all teams. Not the team designed ring. I like it better than the old one of that's the case.

I'm totally fine with Roman Numerals what I don't like is the standard logo for all super bowls now. I liked when every super bowl had a logo and one of my favorites is super bowl 31.

My ring display

Love it!

Thanks for sharing!

That is an actual street sign from Green Bay as well. That gets more attention then anything else.

I won it at a sports auction.

My ring display

I guess players from the past want the same big rings players get today. I like big gaudy rings but that NY just doesn't work.