Ring’s etching slaps Bills in face forever
The Buffalo Bills are literally scarred for life. And no, we’re not talking about O.J. Simpson.
An eBay auction of two Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl rings from 1975 and 1976 has uncovered a factual error.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said an unnamed fan read a story about the auction in the newspaper July 11. The superfan noticed that on the large photo of the Super Bowl IX ring — which commemorated the Steelers’ 16-6 win over the Minnesota Vikings — the ring had an incorrect score of the divisional game.
The rings says: “Steelers 32, Bills 6″ but the final score was actually 32-14. Whoops. Way to screw up teh Steelers’ first Super Bowl title.
The jeweler that originally cast the molds of the rings, Jostens, checked the molds, which are locked in a vault. Sure enough, they were wrong.
But after all these years and all the eyes that have seen the rings, the error didn’t matter at the end of the online auction. The two rings were purchased for $66,000.
