All it takes to get one of the historic ring is a deep-burning love of Big Blue and $47,995.
Tiki Barber, are you listening?
"For whatever reason, back in 2008, we received eight players selling their rings within six months after they received them," Tim Robbins of Champions-Rings.net. "The majority of them were still playing for the team, which is rather unusual."
According to the New York Daily News, one of Robbins clients bought the ring back then, but last November, looking to turn a profit, decided to sell the ring back. It now sits on a shelf among 1,200 or so championship rings that range from NCAA Championships to the Super Bowl.
Robbins said the rings are also awarded to team staff members— which are different from the ones the players recieve— and he was kind of surprised by the number of Giants that season who were looking hock their bling.
If you are a fan of TV's Pawn Stars, you already know that the players' rings are more valuable than the staff's.
The white gold and diamond rings are manufactured by the same famous silversmith that also makes the Lombardi Trophy every year.
"The Giants rings, being made by Tiffany, it was a little surprising to see that many," said Robbins. "But there are so many die-hard New York Giants fans that it didn't take that much time to sell them at all."
"And if you wear this out," Robbins said. "It's the best icebreaker in the world."
But this is a special ring— nicknamed a "10-table ring" by former Giants player Michael Strahan because he wanted people ten tables away to see his pride and joy.
Robbins said the ring has been on the market for over three months and blames the slow economy for it sitting on the shelf so long. Normally, Giants rings "don't have a tendency to last that long," he said.
In 2008, when the rings were presented to the Giants players, they had a value of over $25,000. The face of the ring features three Super Bowl trophies— one for each of the team's titles. One side is engraved with the score of the game (Giants 17, Patriots 14) and the other side says "Eleven Straight on the Road" in reference to the NFL record set by the team in 2007.
Strahan, Eli Manning, Amani Toomer and Shaun O'Hara were all consultants on the design of the ring.
Players sell their rings for a variety of reasons claims Robbins and it's not always financial hardship.
"You have players where their religion prohibits them from wearing jewelery," he said. "So they just don't need the ring."
Robbins stands by his firm's privacy policy and won't disclose the name of the player who came in and unloaded his ring. He just said the unnamed player wasn't a starter in the Super Bowl.
One person we can definitely leave out of that discussion is good ol' Tiki.
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