Fanblogs.com: Your chance to own a national championship ring!
gatorhippy
· 1 year ago
$3900 seems high for some CZ's molded into cheap gold...
Zac
· 1 year ago
My apologies up front for a drive by thread hijack.
John Pont, former HC at IN, NW, Miami (OH) and assistant under Era Parsegian (highlighting a few of his stints), passed away at the age of 80 two days ago after battling cancer. He and Parsegian were teammates at Miami (OH), where Pont rushed for over 2700 yards and had his jersey retired, the 1st jersey to ever be retired at Miami. He was considered to be top shelf as a coach, leader, and all around human being. He will be missed.
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
Well, at least you did it in style, Zac, and hijacked THREE threads...
:-)
hokie_pokie
· 1 year ago
The Peter Warrick Special...that will go for a pretty penny. This ring will serve as a reminder of how crooked FSU was that season. Yeah ok, I'm a little sore on how that game went down...but who wouldn't be.
Kevin @ Fanblogs
· 1 year ago
Bitter... party of one.
Zac
· 1 year ago
Ya know, WarEagle, if'n I thought you were serious, I'd throw in $20.00 to give it a try (I know; big spender.).
There are lots of reasons the former owner put this ring up for sale. It's also entirely possible, it wasn't the former owner who put it up for sale. For all I know the former owner is still looking for it. Only the owner and/or seller knows for certain.
I do know this. I come across people selling Eagle Scout medals all the time. Trust me; many of the former owners are far from dead. Yet, despite those like me, who wouldn't think of selling their Eagle, for what-ever reason, they sell theirs.
I remember a time, early in my life as husband & father, my wife & I both HAD to sell our HS rings. We sold some other small trinkets we had at the same time. We did it to make ends meet. It happens to people. I wish I could have those things back, but they got me a little further along when I needed them. So, I'm grateful for having had them as long as I had. Sadly, I still read about people selling things they love but don't need, so they can have heat, electricity, food, or even medicine for one more month. I know I'm a big complainer; I also know how incredibly lucky I am. May the rest of you be luckier than I.
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
$20 a head and we'll only need 195 donors...
TigerEducated
· 1 year ago
Our erstwhile former running back and "guy that threw it all away" Alley Broussard sold his Championship Ring from 2004...
I hate to say it, but I can't blame him...That ring reminded him of a time in his life that he might not ever reach back again...
Those big pieces of jewelry can weigh down a life...not just a hand...
To some kids who don't continue to excel, and to whom the path of life ceases being an open field, with smooth sailing across a green sea of earth and grass on the way to an end zone of adulation, those rings can stare and mock every morning, as the cold reality of an alarm clock and the 1st shift jars them awake from dreams of 90,000 screaming their name and scouts watching their every move on the field...
Can't say I blame kids who want to forget...For every kid who blazes into their memory for life, there's others that those rings find turning into Kryptonite...
Just my $0.02...It's late, and I'm a tad on the superfluous, hyperbolic side, this evening...
GeauxTigers0107
· 1 year ago
I worked over there for a little over a year but we did have satelite so I did get to watch whatever was televised nationally. Being over there made me realize the littlest of things we take for granted. Things like walking outside and NOT seeing a group of militants carrying M-16's (or whatever that sub machine gun was) come to mind. And deodorant!!!...to even have it available, much less having the where-withall to use it also spring back into memory. All I can say is God Bless America.
And I've also recieved the same promising emails from "extremely wealthy" Nigerians looking for a way to spend their money...with my help, of course...lol.
Sorry for that bit of rambling.
Geaux Tigers Geaux SEC
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
Nope. Interesting perspective--I asked. It's always good to get that cheerful little "Welcome Home" from the US customs agents at Hartsfield when I fly back in. My response? Glad to be home!
GeauxTigers0107
· 1 year ago
I agree man. We always flew into Amsterdam for a 6hr layover (which was always the highlite of coming and going) then hit customs in either Memphis, Atlanta or Houston. If you've never been, go visit Amsterdam and stop in the Red Lite District.....wow! That's about as far as I can safely elaborate on it.
Sorry for the thread hijack Kev. At least we started on the right track...lol.
I guess that's one way to put it Kev..."shopping for treasures"...lol. Window shopping, to be specific though. At around dusk-thirty when the curtains start opening and the neon lights lite up the alley's, it's just a matter of you picking your flavor of the night. You want a 6ft tall blonde? Dime a dozen. It's Holland, where all they grow are tall/blonde/blue eyed treasures.
And if you have "other" needs, go to Amnesia and have a milk shake with your space cake. Quite the combination. After about an hour there, you won't care if the sun comes up tomorrow.
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right to add my sig in but.......... Geaux Tigers Geaux SEC
Ramblin' Gator
· 1 year ago
I lived in Holland (Den Helder) for the better part of a year in the 90s and frequently visited Amsterdam. If I may offer a suggestion, it would be two words...
Banana Bar
Zac
· 1 year ago
Shoot, can you even get college football in Amsterdam?
GeauxTigers0107
· 1 year ago
The quickest way to get into a scrap in Europe is by starting the "football" debate. Of course, their football is soccer to us. But don't call it soccer over there...lol. Talk about touchy. Once I had made a few friends, it was easy to get 'em riled up though. I'd tell 'em their national sport isn't football, "it's kick ball...nothing more. Hell, a good kick baller would get killed in American football". But before the job ended, we swapped jerseys of our favorite teams. I am now proud to say that there's quite a few LSU caps and shirts being sported in Holland and England. Of course, they all had the 2003 National Championship mentioned somewhere. {wink}
Geaux Tigers Geaux SEC
TigerEducated
· 1 year ago
GT, elaborate all you like...I'm sure Kevin will indulge you-and all of us-to hear these yarns...
1Tomcat
· 1 year ago
Whats the main topic anyway? I was enjoying this Amersterdam thread Somebody is selling a ring, they probably need some cash, cant eat a ring Kinda reminds me of a Willie Nelson interveiw, He sold alot of great songs he had written to other artist like Nite Life,Crazy and Hello Walls. These songs became huge hits for other artist, He was asked if he had any regrets for selling these songs and his reply was " well at the time I needed the 150 bucks. Hookem-Horns God Bless Our Troops P.S. What good is a Championship ring if you didnt earn it ? Be kinda like having a huge fish on your wall that you didnt catch
Zac
· 1 year ago
Too true, unless that's a singing fish you got there. Billy Bass anyone???
1Tomcat
· 1 year ago
Come on Zac, your post reminds me of a Sopranos episode. Tony sees talking fish. I started to put huge deer that you didnt kill, but I didnt want to offend any animal lovers. Would you believe there is actually a big market for those things. I guess some rich folks like to have big deer mounts on their office walls to impress somebody or something. Beats the heck outa me,I did know one individual that had a replica of the world record Bluegill mounted on the wall behind the bar of his daddy's- beerjoint /baitshop/outboard motor repair establishment. It made a heck of a conversation peice for a long time and he enjoyed fabricating stories of battleing the monster sunfish. When you walked into the place your first reponse would be that's a big-a-- fish. Claimed he was crappie fishing with live minnows below the damm etc etc. Heck I even bought his story till I found out otherwise, its a small world and I happened to use the same taxidermist. Thats no fish story, ordered the thing out of a catalog and hired the taxidermist to paint it for him etc. etc. Hows that for thread hijack
Zac
· 1 year ago
Funny, as usual, TC!!! Actually, I don't watch the Sopranos. . .too close to home, if'n ya know what I mean. I subscribe to the "Ellen DeGeneres" Theory of animal wall hangings. She was once a guest in some guy's house, who was admiring his own hunting skills, referring to all the animals he shot and mounted on his wall. When she asked him why he hung the heads and carcasses of all these animals he'd killed, part of his reply included "Well, they are beautiful creatures, aren't they?"
She replied, "My mom's beautiful too, but I never though of shooting her and hanging her on a wall." Then, she asked the audience to imagine that for a moment.
"Yep, that's my mom; I shot her. Doesn't she have a beautiful head? Her legs are beautiful too. You wanna see em? They're on the other side of the wall."
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
Anyone verify that it is an actual ring and not a sample, or find out who the ring actually belongs to?
Chief Bammer Homer and Fanblogs Co-founder Pete Holiday posted a nice little piece on the Auburn fanhouse last year lambasting an Auburn player for selling their 2004 SEC ring on ebay in spite of the pictures of the ring clearly showing 'sample' incribed on it. Still waiting for his retraction...
At least the FSU player(s) didn't flood the market like the GA Bulldogs did with their SEC rings on ebay in 2003...
Kevin @ Fanblogs
· 1 year ago
I emailed the seller (a collectible store in South Florida) and -- based on that exchange -- I think this is the real deal. I can't confirm that it was a player (as opposed to a trainer/coach/athletic dept member, but... the ring itself does appear to be legit.
Zac
· 1 year ago
Hey, Kev, they got any Boy Scout stuff in that store? (Sorry, had ta ask.)
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
I think that we should all chip in and buy this ring for Kevin, our fanblogs founder and mentor. According to feedburner, we have 17,346 readers on here. Doing the math, that's only 23 cents per reader for the $3900 bling-ring--less than the cost to feed a homeless kid somewhere in the third world.
I'm taking the initiative and will allow all fanblogs readers to contribute to my paypal account for this purpose. For those of you that don't feel comfortable with that arrangement, you can alternatively send a Western Union to my representative in Lagos. He's an oil minister there, but is a really HUGE college football fan...
GeauxTigers0107
· 1 year ago
I'm gonna go ahead and round it up to an even quarter WEA. Send the .23c to Kev and you can keep the .02c as a handling fee.
And on a side note, I've worked in Lagos, Nigeria and never, ever have I ran into an oil minister...lol. Talk about make you love the good 'ole USA!
Kevin @ Fanblogs
· 1 year ago
I got nothing but love for ya!
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
Actually, I'll collect 23 cents and forward 25 to Kevin, keeping a handsome profit for myself, which is made up with volume...
How long were you in Nigeria, GT? Musta sucked if it was football season...
War_Eagle_Atlanta
· 1 year ago
Having been to Amsterdam and the rest of Nederland quite a few times, I must agree with the aforementioned article that there are plenty of things to do other than hit the red light trifecta of pot bars, window girls, and sex shows.
The scariest thing I ever did in Amsterdam was drive a car in the city center. But I did it one better the next year by riding a bike downtown--now THAT was scary...
The Dutch are good people. You can't find one of them that doesn't speak 3 languages--even the immigrants.
GeauxTigers0107
· 1 year ago
Maybe on the third or fourth visit....lol. It's definitely a beautiful city though. With one or two bicycles running around.
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John Pont, former HC at IN, NW, Miami (OH) and assistant under Era Parsegian (highlighting a few of his stints), passed away at the age of 80 two days ago after battling cancer. He and Parsegian were teammates at Miami (OH), where Pont rushed for over 2700 yards and had his jersey retired, the 1st jersey to ever be retired at Miami. He was considered to be top shelf as a coach, leader, and all around human being. He will be missed.
:-)
There are lots of reasons the former owner put this ring up for sale. It's also entirely possible, it wasn't the former owner who put it up for sale. For all I know the former owner is still looking for it. Only the owner and/or seller knows for certain.
I do know this. I come across people selling Eagle Scout medals all the time. Trust me; many of the former owners are far from dead. Yet, despite those like me, who wouldn't think of selling their Eagle, for what-ever reason, they sell theirs.
I remember a time, early in my life as husband & father, my wife & I both HAD to sell our HS rings. We sold some other small trinkets we had at the same time. We did it to make ends meet. It happens to people. I wish I could have those things back, but they got me a little further along when I needed them. So, I'm grateful for having had them as long as I had. Sadly, I still read about people selling things they love but don't need, so they can have heat, electricity, food, or even medicine for one more month. I know I'm a big complainer; I also know how incredibly lucky I am. May the rest of you be luckier than I.
I hate to say it, but I can't blame him...That ring reminded him of a time in his life that he might not ever reach back again...
Those big pieces of jewelry can weigh down a life...not just a hand...
To some kids who don't continue to excel, and to whom the path of life ceases being an open field, with smooth sailing across a green sea of earth and grass on the way to an end zone of adulation, those rings can stare and mock every morning, as the cold reality of an alarm clock and the 1st shift jars them awake from dreams of 90,000 screaming their name and scouts watching their every move on the field...
Can't say I blame kids who want to forget...For every kid who blazes into their memory for life, there's others that those rings find turning into Kryptonite...
Just my $0.02...It's late, and I'm a tad on the superfluous, hyperbolic side, this evening...
And I've also recieved the same promising emails from "extremely wealthy" Nigerians looking for a way to spend their money...with my help, of course...lol.
Sorry for that bit of rambling.
Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC
Sorry for the thread hijack Kev. At least we started on the right track...lol.
And if you have "other" needs, go to Amnesia and have a milk shake with your space cake. Quite the combination. After about an hour there, you won't care if the sun comes up tomorrow.
Somehow, it just doesn't seem right to add my sig in but..........
Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC
Banana Bar
Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC
Somebody is selling a ring, they probably need some cash, cant eat a ring
Kinda reminds me of a Willie Nelson interveiw, He sold alot of great songs he had written to other
artist like Nite Life,Crazy and Hello Walls. These songs became huge hits for other artist, He was
asked if he had any regrets for selling these songs and his reply was " well at the time I needed the
150 bucks.
Hookem-Horns
God Bless Our Troops
P.S. What good is a Championship ring if you didnt earn it ?
Be kinda like having a huge fish on your wall that you didnt catch
I started to put huge deer that you didnt kill, but I didnt want to offend any animal lovers.
Would you believe there is actually a big market for those things. I guess some rich folks
like to have big deer mounts on their office walls to impress somebody or something.
Beats the heck outa me,I did know one individual that had a replica of the world record
Bluegill mounted on the wall behind the bar of his daddy's- beerjoint /baitshop/outboard motor repair establishment. It made a heck of a conversation peice for a long time and he enjoyed fabricating stories of battleing the monster sunfish. When you walked into the place your first reponse would be that's a big-a-- fish. Claimed he was crappie fishing with live minnows below the damm etc etc. Heck I even bought his story till I found out otherwise, its a small world and I happened to use the same taxidermist. Thats no fish story, ordered the thing out of a catalog and hired the taxidermist to paint it for him etc. etc.
Hows that for thread hijack
She replied, "My mom's beautiful too, but I never though of shooting her and hanging her on a wall." Then, she asked the audience to imagine that for a moment.
"Yep, that's my mom; I shot her. Doesn't she have a beautiful head? Her legs are beautiful too. You wanna see em? They're on the other side of the wall."
Chief Bammer Homer and Fanblogs Co-founder Pete Holiday posted a nice little piece on the Auburn fanhouse last year lambasting an Auburn player for selling their 2004 SEC ring on ebay in spite of the pictures of the ring clearly showing 'sample' incribed on it. Still waiting for his retraction...
At least the FSU player(s) didn't flood the market like the GA Bulldogs did with their SEC rings on ebay in 2003...
I'm taking the initiative and will allow all fanblogs readers to contribute to my paypal account for this purpose. For those of you that don't feel comfortable with that arrangement, you can alternatively send a Western Union to my representative in Lagos. He's an oil minister there, but is a really HUGE college football fan...
And on a side note, I've worked in Lagos, Nigeria and never, ever have I ran into an oil minister...lol. Talk about make you love the good 'ole USA!
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How long were you in Nigeria, GT? Musta sucked if it was football season...
The scariest thing I ever did in Amsterdam was drive a car in the city center. But I did it one better the next year by riding a bike downtown--now THAT was scary...
The Dutch are good people. You can't find one of them that doesn't speak 3 languages--even the immigrants.