PackerFan98 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Warriors ring is gaudy. Way too big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravens12 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 My goodness, that thing really is HUGE. I think it looks fantastic. The blue lattice work around the face is a great touch. Reminds me of The Oracle.Ring looks nice. Something different for a change. Not the same cookie cutter stuff we've been seeing from Jostens and Balfour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrared41 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 GM Bob Myers ring compared to 49ers 1st SB ring.Cool design, but it's entirely too big. I'd want a ring I can actually, you know, wear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Anyone want to talk about the design or comparisons or differences between the 2015 professional championship rings?I wrote a blog about it today....(click on the image below for a larger photograph) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 This is a pretty good writeup on the Warriors new championship rings. The more I see of them, the more I like them.http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/2015-championship-rings-hidden-gems Quote On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC985 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 This is a pretty good writeup on the Warriors new championship rings. The more I see of them, the more I like them.http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/2015-championship-rings-hidden-gemsI can't think of another championship ring that has taken more of a team (as in players) approach to the design of a ring. Having every player's number within the 2015, and a depiction of the "team" holding up the Larry O'Brien trophy creates a nice narrative. Combine that with inside and outside elements of Oracle Arena on the ring and you have a very unique design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan33 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Anyone want to talk about the design or comparisons or differences between the 2015 professional championship rings?I wrote a blog about it today....(click on the image below for a larger photograph)I'm partial to designs that are able to incorporate the team colours, be it with gemstones, metals or other materials. It is for that reason that the Blackhawks ring completely misses the mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 This is a pretty good writeup on the Warriors new championship rings. The more I see of them, the more I like them.http://www.nba.com/warriors/news/2015-championship-rings-hidden-gems I can't think of another championship ring that has taken more of a team (as in players) approach to the design of a ring. Having every player's number within the 2015, and a depiction of the "team" holding up the Larry O'Brien trophy creates a nice narrative. Combine that with inside and outside elements of Oracle Arena on the ring and you have a very unique design. I agree. My first thought when seeing it was that the only other ring that I feel has as many personal elements to it is the Lakers 2010 ring, which lo and behold, is also a J of BH product. They may be a bit different, and some could even call them a bit gimmicky, but frankly I really like the stuff they put out. They go in a totally different direction than Tiffany and Jostens, but I think that's a good thing. Quote On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama41827 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 Man, I really like the design of the GSW ring. But, I have to admit, I agree with the sentiment regarding the 'cheap' look. The design and input have a lot of qualities that reach to the history of the city. Nice, but not overwhelmed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 A must watch championship ring video:The championship ring themed YouTube video, has become quite popular. The short video, appropriately titled, “Geno Auriemma: Lord of the Rings,” is comical and shows women’s Coach Geno Auriemma talking about not spending too much time thinking about his 10 wins.While he mentions that “the past is in the past,” Auriemma is shown in the video wearing a championship ring on each of his 10 fingers. At some point, I don’t know a single championship ring collector with ten or more rigs who hasn’t done the same thing!Two sports legends with plenty of championship rings, Bill Russell and Yogi Berra, have famous photos of them wearing rings on each fingers too.In the video, Auriemma struggles with simple daily tasks because the championship rings get in the way. You see him challenged to get his cell phone out of his pocket, or giving Jonathan the Husky mascot a high five.Here’s the link for the video: http://www.wfsb.com/story/30440882/uconn-video-showcases-auriemmas-10-wins-and-rings#ixzz3qc3q1knq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Anyone want to talk about the ring designs from Super Bowl XXX?The ring on the left is the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Ring from their 1995 season. This ring was designed and manufactured by a company called Diamond Cutters in 14K solid yellow gold. I believe when this ring was designed and manufactured, it was labeled as largest Super Bowl ring ever. Like the 49ers Super Bowl ring from the season before, it was designed with five massive marquis diamonds - each commemorating a Cowboys Super Bowl championship.While at the time this championship ring was crafted, the vast majority of Super Bowl rings were made by Jostens and Balfour. That's still true today as long as you now include Tiffany & Company in the mix.The Cowboys chose Diamond Cutters for this championship ring and they paid the price - by getting a ring that had very poorly made shanks (sides of the ring).While the top is stunning, the sides, in my opinion, and the opinion shared by most championship ring enthusiasts, look like a knock off ring. The wording is not crisp, and over time, the 14K wears down from constant wearing of the ring and this adds to the poor look.Just like with he Forty Niners from the season before, no one knew at the time the Cowboys would enter into a Super Bowl drought and not be back in the title game since. Both the Forty Niners and the Cowboys, now for about two decades are still waiting for their next Super Bowl ring.The team that loses the Super Bowl is recognized as a champion of their respective conference. The Pittsburgh Steelers 1995 AFC championship ring, shown above, is a very nicely designed ring. The Steelers AFC championship ring weighs in at 50 grams and contains a large diamond surrounded by plenty of smaller diamonds.The Steelers AFC championship ring was designed and made by Jostens in solid yellow 10K gold.I really like the look of this ring, especially the way the Steelers helmet is shown on the side, in the colors, black, gold, and the three colors found in the team logo. The color adds a nice touch and so does the player's uniform number, inserted onto the helmet, just like it's seen on the real helmets.To see the side view of this championship ring, please visit my Super Bowl gallery link, located at my website's main page.Any comments about these two rings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Golden One Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Warriors ring number 2. James Michael McAdoo now has what Steph doesn't. Two championship rings for last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridenlow71 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Anyone want to talk about the ring designs from Super Bowl XXX?The ring on the left is the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Ring from their 1995 season. This ring was designed and manufactured by a company called Diamond Cutters in 14K solid yellow gold. I believe when this ring was designed and manufactured, it was labeled as largest Super Bowl ring ever. Like the 49ers Super Bowl ring from the season before, it was designed with five massive marquis diamonds - each commemorating a Cowboys Super Bowl championship.While at the time this championship ring was crafted, the vast majority of Super Bowl rings were made by Jostens and Balfour. That's still true today as long as you now include Tiffany & Company in the mix.The Cowboys chose Diamond Cutters for this championship ring and they paid the price - by getting a ring that had very poorly made shanks (sides of the ring).While the top is stunning, the sides, in my opinion, and the opinion shared by most championship ring enthusiasts, look like a knock off ring. The wording is not crisp, and over time, the 14K wears down from constant wearing of the ring and this adds to the poor look.Just like with he Forty Niners from the season before, no one knew at the time the Cowboys would enter into a Super Bowl drought and not be back in the title game since. Both the Forty Niners and the Cowboys, now for about two decades are still waiting for their next Super Bowl ring.The team that loses the Super Bowl is recognized as a champion of their respective conference. The Pittsburgh Steelers 1995 AFC championship ring, shown above, is a very nicely designed ring. The Steelers AFC championship ring weighs in at 50 grams and contains a large diamond surrounded by plenty of smaller diamonds.The Steelers AFC championship ring was designed and made by Jostens in solid yellow 10K gold.I really like the look of this ring, especially the way the Steelers helmet is shown on the side, in the colors, black, gold, and the three colors found in the team logo. The color adds a nice touch and so does the player's uniform number, inserted onto the helmet, just like it's seen on the real helmets.To see the side view of this championship ring, please visit my Super Bowl gallery link, located at my website's main page.Any comments about these two rings?Yeah the top of the ring is awesome!! But agree the sides are terrible, but I've never been impressed with any of the diamond cutters ring. The 1997 Bronocs ring is the worst ring I've ever seen. That's why a lot of teams stick with the big companies like Jostens, Tiffanys, Balfour ect Quote Part owner in the Green Bay Packers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridenlow71 Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Saw this and thought it was cool. Not sure how they got their hands on all of these. Quote Part owner in the Green Bay Packers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Anyone want to discuss the design of the Super Bowl XXXI rings or the 1996 AFC Championship ring?The ring on the left is the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Ring from their 1996 season. This ring was designed and manufactured by Jostens in 10K solid yellow gold. (I really miss the days of championship rings in Yellow Gold). What makes this Super Bowl ring so special is that the Packers had not won a Super Bowl or even appeared in one since the days of the first two title games back in the late 1960s.While the top of this championship ring is a beauty, the side shanks leave much to be desired. The championship ring weighs approximately 50 grams. While that weight is about half the weight of the Cowboys Super Bowl ring from the season before, the Packers ring appears to be quite large, so perhaps the inside of the ring is a bit hollow to allow it to appear so large.The New England Patriots 1996 AFC championship ring, shown above, in my opinion, is so-so, and certainly not the kind of championship ring bling design that we would see from Robert Kraft within five years.The Patriots AFC championship ring weighs in at 42 grams (like the Packers ring from 1996, significantly lighter than the prior year's AFC championship ring). The Patriots AFC championship ring was designed and made by Jostens in solid yellow 10K gold.An interesting side note about these two championship rings from Super Bowl XXXI: Jostens made both rings, and they are not in the business of making championship ring boxes. They must have used a new vendor (or had their subcontractor create a new style ) because both boxes are the same size and style and they are much larger and very different than any other championship ring box I've seen before or since.Perhaps things did not work out with the supplier, because as great as these championship ring boxes are, Jostens seemed to abruptly stop using this particular ring box.Any thoughts or opinions on these two rings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridenlow71 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Yeah I always thought the Packers ring was small overall, until I saw the picture that I posted up above and it's really not. Weight wise yes but overall look it's a decent size. I think that's what makes the packers rings classic is that there not huge and gaudy. Their big enough to get your attention but not so much that their screaming "look at me". 1 Quote Part owner in the Green Bay Packers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Let's discuss the design of the Seattle Seahawks Last two Championship rings:Did Seattle Get Their 2014 NFC Championship Ring All Wrong? The photo above provides the opportunity to compare the Seattle 2013 and 2014 Championship Rings Side-By-Side. The results are surprising: I always imaged, that when I finally had the chance to see the two Seattle Seahawks championship together, I'd see they were the same basic size (or footprint if you will). While that last second loss in Super Bowl XLIX was disheartening for players, staff and Seahawks fans, it would make complete sense to create a similar size ring that could be worn side-by-side. The two championship rings, would be seen as a story, a great accomplishment of playing in two super bowls in a row. Very few teams accomplish playing in back-to-back Super Bowls, and from a championship ring perspective, when this happens, the teams seem to never capitalize on the chance to have a single-theme pair of championship rings. You can argue that the Buffalo Bills came close, in the 1990s, their four in a row AFC championship rings were similar, yet different. I had to think hard and go way back to the Miami Dolphins Super Bowl rings of 1971 (they lost to the Cowboys) and then their two winning Super Bowl rings the following two seasons to find championship rings that had a very common look and feel. Worse than blowing a chance for the Seahawks to match their Super Bowl ring in size, their 2014 NFC championship ring is some-what unimpressive in person: What I thought must have been tiny tiny diamonds, turned out to be a bumpy white gold texture that when hit with light from the room or sun, sparkles but not from diamonds. The 2014 NFC championship ring has a few tiny diamonds, and is smaller than their 2013 Super Bowl ring (which by the way, was also considered small, when compared to other teams recent Super Bowl rings). The 2014 Seattle Seahawks ring was designed and manufactured by Tiffany in 14K white. gold. The championship ring weighs in at 60 grams. The photo above is perhaps the first time the world is getting to see the two championship rings side by side. Let me know what you think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac the Knife Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 I was actually surprised the Seahawks rings were as similar as they are. The '14 ring is a significant drop in styling however, and sends a bit of motivational statement of its own if you think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sports-rings.com Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Which design to do you like the best?Me, I like the one on the right, kind of pops more than the other two! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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