William ‘Refrigerator’ Perry auctioning off Super Bowl XX ring
William “Refrigerator” Perry, one of the most famous NFL players of the 1980s, is auctioning off the Super Bowl ring he won after the 1985 season with the Chicago Bears.
Heritage Auctions is overseeing the auction at this week’s National Sports Collectors’ Convention at Dallas, and bidding is available online. The starting bid is $16,000, and the auction site has indicated that the ring could fetch as much as $1 million. The ring is estimated at a size 25, the largest Super Bowl ring ever produced by Jostens.
The Bears decimated the Patriots 46-10 in that Super Bowl, a game in which Perry scored a touchdown. Perry played 10 seasons in the NFL, the vast majority of those with the Bears. He has fallen on harder times of late. In 2008, he was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré Syndrome, a disorder involving inflammation of the nerves. He has suffered financial difficulties as well as health problems.
This is not the first time Perry has parted with the ring. In 2010, a young boy spent $8,500 of his own money to buy this ring from a collectibles dealer and return it to Perry. According to the auction site, Perry is offering the ring of his own volition, and a letter of authenticity accompanies the listing.
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