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The Super Bowl Ring is a trophy given annually by the National Football League (NFL) to the winners of the Super Bowl , the annual game for the championship in the NFL. Since only one Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the entire winning team, Super Bowl rings serve as individual trophies for the players and team members.
history
The idea of giving rings as individual awards to the winner of a championship originated in baseball . In 1922, rings were first awarded to the World Series winner , the New York Giants . This concept was later adopted in other professional leagues and also in the NFL. Rings for the championship in the NFL were awarded even before the Super Bowl era. The Pro Football Hall of Fame holds a ring from quarterback Tommy Thompson for his two championships with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1948 and 1949.
Super Bowl rings have been awarded since the first Super Bowl in 1967. The first Super Bowl rings went to the Green Bay Packers and contained a one- carat diamond . Over the years the rings have become increasingly expensive and splendid. The rings of the Philadelphia Eagles, which won the Super Bowl LII in 2018 , have 219 diamonds and 17 green sapphires on ten-carat white gold .
Production and costs
The first ring was made by Minneapolis- based manufacturer Jostens , who produced the majority of Super Bowl rings with 34 out of 52 editions through 2018. Other manufacturers were the Balfour Company and Tiffany & Co. The production of the rings does not officially begin until after the Super Bowl. Typically, it takes about eight weeks to design and four to six weeks to produce. The rings will be presented to the winning team at a closed event in June.
The NFL pays about 5,000 US dollars per ring for up to 150 rings per franchise, everything, it must be about funded by the team itself. Usually 300 to 900 rings are produced per year, which are given to coaches, managers and other team members in addition to the 53 players in the squad. The cost of all Super Bowl rings in a year is estimated to average about $ 5 million.
Occasionally the rings are also sold and achieve very high prices. Linebacker Lawrence Taylor's ring for Super Bowl XXV with the New York Giants sold for $ 230,401, making it the most expensive player's ring to sell. The highest price to date was achieved by a Super Bowl LI ring from a family member of quarterback Tom Brady , who won the Super Bowl six times with the New England Patriots . The ring set with 265 diamonds, the material value of which is estimated at just under 30,000 dollars, fetched a price of 344,927 dollars.
Web links
- Images of all Super Bowl rings on the National Football League website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Jacobo Prisco: Big bling: The history of Super Bowl ring design on edition.cnn.com, January 30, 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019 (English).
- ↑ NFL championship ring from late '40s added to collection on the Pro Football Hall of Fame website , March 3, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2019.
- ↑ Andy Wilson: Super Bowl rings: Who gets a ring after the Super Bowl? How much are they worth? , Daily Express , February 3, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019.
- ↑ Darren Rovell: Family version of Tom Brady Super Bowl LI ring sells for record $ 344,927 on espn.com, February 18, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2019.