NEWS AND NOTES
Mondesi's House —
... --The Steelers Super Bowl rings sold for $66,000 on eBay, but an uncorrected error was discovered....30+ years after they were produced. ...
Pittsburgh Steelers First Super Bowl Rings Had Wrong Score On Them
FanIQ Blog —
As you're probably well aware of, we occasionally make mistakes here on the blog. When you're typing fast, trying to crank out posts quickly, and getting whipped repeatedly to meet deadlines, the occasional typo will occur. You'll write "your" instead of "you're" or you'll just forget a word here and there.
That's acceptable to a degree in this line of work. But do you know what kind of job where mistakes like this aren't acceptable? Super Bowl ring maker.
Yes, believe it or not, the first Pittsburgh Steelers team to win a Super Bowl wound up getting rings that all had the wrong ...
1974 Steelers Ring Engraver: Not ‘Great’ at His Job
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
Sooooo, Jostens Jewelers in Minnesota, about those 30 or so rings you cranked out for the 1974 Steelers Super Bowl team? You know, the ones with every score of every playoff game engraved on the ring? Yeah. About that. You kind of messed up. Steelers 1974 Super Bowl ring ...
Steelers Super Bowl Rings Erroneously Engraved
The Slanch Report —
Say you’re a member of the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers, you work hard all season long and you get rewarded with the greatest present possible, a Super Bowl victory. The next year you’re given a ring to commemorate your team’s accomplishment, on the side of the ring are included the scores of the playoff games ...
Proofreading wasn't a strong point for the '70s Steelers
Shutdown Corner —
And
that's the first time I've ever looked at a sentence and said, "Yes, that
is something I have in common with the 1970s Steelers."
In celebration of the Steelers victory in Super Bowl IX, 70 rings were made
and handed out. The rings included the scores of every playoff game that the
Steelers won on their way to the championship. In the first round of the
playoffs, the Steelers beat the Bills 32-14. But the rings read, "Steelers
- 32, Bills - 6."
For 34 years, not a single person noticed. I guess no one ever checked with
OJ Simpson, who scored the Bills' last touchdown in that game. ...
