Stolen World Series Ring Found

sports-rings · #1 09-19-2015, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by UnVme7

Off topic, and maybe it was already brought up, but who's ring was it that was found 5 yrs ago or so in the ocean. Some lady found it and returned it to the player. I think it was NFL and was a 70's ring. Crazy to find it that many yrs later.

I remember that Story - it belonged to Super Bowl starting center John Schmitt.

Here's a cool story about John and his ring(s). He was so proud of his Super Bowl ring and meant so much to him that he wore it every day. He lost it surfing in Hawaii and was devastated.

He had Balfour make a replacement and he wore that ring all the time for decades.

Now that his original ring was "discovered" he has two Super Bowl III Jets rings, and he has two sons. So now he gets to leave each son an Authentic Super Bowl ring and he cherished both of those rings!

UnVme7 · #2 09-19-2015, 06:24 PM

That's the one! Article is below..

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/stor...40-years-later

I find the story amazing.

Runscott · #3 09-20-2015, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by UnVme7

That's the one! Article is below..

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/stor...40-years-later

I find the story amazing.

As someone who found their college ring in a lake several months after losing it, I find the 'finding' of the ring amazing, but even more amazing is that the lifeguard, Mr. Ernstberg, did not return it to the player when he found it. Fortunately, people who keep things like this, especially when the owner's name is inscribed on the item, are an extreme minority. Fortunately he passed along some recessive genes for honesty to his great-niece.

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