Will you buy a National Championship Ring when Rutgers wins it all??
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Well, they did play 2 games, they both won a game and Princeton DID score more combined points, SOOOOOOOO..................
My neighbor has a ring from the Eagles superbowl win as he works for the team as a chiropractor, he is always visible on the sidelines. He wore it the first weekend he got it so he could show everyone while he was out riding his bike on the boardwalk. After that it went in a draw.
I was in a bar once and a guy was *impressing*
people with his Yankees WS Championship ring that had supposedly been gifted to him by one of the players whom he kept name-dropping.
Too bad for him that it took a only few seconds to go to the internet to find images of cheap replica championship rings and where to buy them.
people with his Yankees WS Championship ring that had supposedly been gifted to him by one of the players whom he kept name-dropping.
Too bad for him that it took a only few seconds to go to the internet to find images of cheap replica championship rings and where to buy them.
What did the fans accomplish? They came up with a ridiculous amount of money and paid that money for tickets to see a bunch of teenagers and 20/21-year old's play football.
Wrong board. I think this was meant for men’s lacrosse or women’s soccer.
If you think that is worthy of a ring to celebrate what someone else accomplished, go for it. To each their own. Feels borderline creepy to me though.
I agree with you. I was being sarcastic. BUT, very honest about the price of tickets.
If the football program chooses to honor certain deserving people outside the immediate organization with the gift of a championship ring, that's great. But if one has to purchase it for oneself, then it's self-congratulatory paid-for pride that anybody can purchase without limit. And where's the value of that?
Surely any purchasable ring would not be authentic, so not even sure what value it would have as a collector's piece. One would have to purchase the authentic one from a member of the program for it to have any real meaning or value.
Surely any purchasable ring would not be authentic, so not even sure what value it would have as a collector's piece. One would have to purchase the authentic one from a member of the program for it to have any real meaning or value.
My inner Spock would say that all angst/anger goes to waste. I think that's probably true of angst; it's 100% wasted energy.
But anger can provide an extra boost for accomplishing certain hard to accomplish stuff. OTOH, I'm not so sure fanbase anger is going to be much of a factor in a team winning a championship. Team anger might, if properly channeled.
Technically the 2 games were played under different rules so it doesn't make sense to combine the scores. Co-champions it is!
So what if it’s self congratulatory. As long as the buyer sees value, that’s all that matters. It would have value as a souvenir and momento.
He should put that on display. Good marketing piece for his private practice (if he has one).
Everyone should do what makes them happy. Just saying that doing such a thing would never make me happy. I’d feel like I bought myself a participation award.
Then again, I don’t do souvenirs and the like. My reward for being a fan of a championship team is having had even better entertainment than usual for that season.
I understand that. But 'we' still didn't accomplish anything on the field. That was the players. You want to celebrate what it took to earn that money you now have to donate, fine. That was your accomplishment. But celebrating donating that money feels pretty weak to me. To each their own I guess.
You don’t understand that because You’re discounting off field support, which is critical to team success.
What happens off the field is just as important as important as what happens on the field. Every stakeholder is part of the team and it’s their prerogative to buy a ring if they wish, when the time comes.
Honestly, I'm not even sure that fans can buy rings. I've never heard of it as an option. Players, coaches, adjunct staff, coach's wives, big boosters ....they all get a ring or a pendant necklace for bowl games. I've never seen a casual fan with one.
In age of NIL , you can be a big time booster out in the open . So if you land a deal to get a star player here to help us win a NC, you sure as hell accomplished something . We need a nevin Shapiro type here .
To say booster and fan.can’t accomplish something is just wrong in today’s college football landscape. But with that said , I wouldn’t buy a ring and wear it even if I was the NIL booster.
Big Time booster, sure I guess. Average fan who contributes a bit, is just silly to me, and cries out 'look at me'. But whatever, if someone was able to get one and wanted it, so be it. I just think it is dumb. Honestly, the entire thread is, so I am out.
If fans are such critical elements of a team's success, why don't they pay us rather than making us pay them to attend games? Why are they not giving the entire fanbase, or all the season ticket holders, rings?
And it's not a question of prerogative. People are always entitled to buy whatever they wish, not just championship rings. Anybody can buy a championship ring if they so desire. Syracuse fans could buy a Rutgers Football Championship ring. And it's precisely that lack of exclusivity or meaningfulness that devalues the object in question.
But whatever, if it has a special meaning to you, if you want to buy something to honor yourself for having watched a team win a sporting championship, then get out your credit card and enjoy. Nobody would stand in your way and some ring maker out there will be pleased to sell it to you for a profit.
I would think that such championship rings must have trademarks, intellectual property protections and/or strict licensing limitations. I mean, what's the real value of them to a team if anybody out there can purchase them?
With pro championship rings, there are apparently laws against making and selling copies (see link below). I'd have to think college sports rings are the same. Without limits on who can get them, they have no real value.
Fake NFL, MLB, NBA championship rings are seized by US officials
Customs and Border Protection officials in Louisville halted a shipment of 230 counterfeit rings worth an estimated $345,000 destined for Florida.
www.usatoday.com
I would think that such championship rings must have trademarks, intellectual property protections and/or strict licensing limitations. I mean, what's the real value of them to a team if anybody out there can purchase them?
With pro championship rings, there are apparently laws against making and selling copies (see link below). I'd have to think college sports rings are the same. Without limits on who can get them, they have no real value.
Fake NFL, MLB, NBA championship rings are seized by US officials
Customs and Border Protection officials in Louisville halted a shipment of 230 counterfeit rings worth an estimated $345,000 destined for Florida.www.usatoday.com
Those are the counterfeits. Replica rings are sold all over the internet. From super cheap $25 crap to decent $350 stuff. Even the better made stuff is obviously not authentic when you see it in person. I’m assuming that the higher end stuff is licensed.
But is there actually any higher end stuff for championship rings? In other words, other than the set made specifically for the teams themselves, what other stuff could possibly be licensed without greatly devaluing the rings made for the actual teams? I would think the licensing is restricted to the initial set.
I don't know how it works, and actually don't much care. But just logically, it seems like it would make no sense for the NFL or CFB or whomever to issue more than the original set of authentic rings. It'd be like Lamborghini making a specifically limited production model and selling it as such (which they do all the time), then making more later on. It would greatly devalue the cars investors paid for (which they never do or people would never trust them again).
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