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1984 & 1986 Oklahoma Sooners Brian Bosworth Big 8 Championship Rings
Own This Very Rare set of rings from a OU Legend!!!


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  For a Limited Time I have lowered the buy it now price from it's normal price. Now is the time to get these very Rare Rings while you still can. This is a Buy It Now Auction with the "Best Offer" Option. If you want to submit a best offer and hope I will take a lower price than the buy it now price feel free to do so. No low ball offers please.   If you have any questions please feel free to contact me through my email address on my about me page.
        


  To get you excited about the Holiday Season this week I offer this week something Real Special. As always when you buy from me you know you're getting a "Real Championship Ring" NO Fakes, No Copies, and No Replicas. Up for bids this week is a 200% Authentic set of Championship Rings that looked to have been presented to All Time Oklahoma Sooners Great Brian Bosworth better known as the “Boz”    

  Bosworth attended the University of Oklahoma, where he played from 1984 to 1986. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American in 1985 and again in 1986. Known for his radical hairstyles and criticism of the NCAA as much as his on-field play, Bosworth embraced publicity and controversy. On more than one occasion Bosworth referred to the NCAA as the "National Communists Against Athletes." He wore a T-shirt bearing that slogan during the 1987 Orange Bowl game following the 1986 season. Barred from playing in the game because of a positive steroid test, Bosworth unveiled the shirt while standing on the sidelines to the shock and outrage of many, including his own coach, Barry Switzer. He claimed that his use of steroids was medically prescribed by his doctor because of his injuries. While Switzer was known for running a loose ship, this incident was too much even for him, and he dismissed Bosworth from the team.

  A strong-side inside linebacker throughout his college career,  Bosworth was known for raising his level of play in big games. He was regarded as a great tackler, although he was occasionally criticized for tackling too high. The winner of the first two Butkus Awards as the nation's top college linebacker, he remains the only player ever to have won the accolade more than once. College Football News ranked him No. 30 on its list of the "100 Greatest College Players of All-Time." In October 1999, Bosworth was named to the Sports Illustrated NCAA Football All-Century Team as one of only nine linebackers on the squad. In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Bosworth was a good student, graduating a year early and thus becoming eligible for the NFL's supplemental draft.  

  In September 1988, Bosworth wrote an autobiography, The Boz, with Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly. In it, Bosworth said the Sooner football program was laden with drug use, gun play in the athletic dorm, and other wild behavior. Although many Sooner boosters dismissed it as the rantings of a resentful ex-player, an NCAA report issued three months later confirmed many of Bosworth's claims, and ultimately led to Switzer being forced to resign. Bosworth and two of his University of Oklahoma teammates were barred from playing in the Orange Bowl game against Arkansas on January 1, 1987 because they tested positive for anabolic steroids. The ruling was made by the NCAA, which instituted tests for some championship events and football bowl games that year in an effort to prevent the use of over 100 banned generic drugs  

  On January 9, 2015, Bosworth was announced as one of the inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame class of 2015. Bosworth will be remembered for the contrast between the hype that surrounded him and his brief, mediocre play for the NFL, Bosworth was named the sixth worst flop on the Biggest Flops of the Last 25 Years list by ESPN in July 2004 and number three on NFL Network's NFL Top 10 Draft Busts. In the case of the latter program, Bosworth was one of the only listed players to be interviewed. One of his contemporaries, Matt Millen, defended Bosworth, saying that he remembers an excellent linebacker who simply had injuries catch up to him. Bosworth made an appearance in the booth during the Monday Night Football broadcast on which the Seattle Seahawks hosted the Oakland Raiders on November 6, 2006. During the discussion, he asserted that he had no regrets about his football career, but wished that he and Bo Jackson had longer careers. He also said that he thought he and Jackson would have developed a good rivalry had they been able to play longer.  


            Now for the rings.  I have been dealing in Real Championship Rings for the past 3 decades and I have seen lots of Rings.  I obtained these Very Rare set of Oklahoma Championship Rings over 10 years ago from a dealer of scrap gold.  He sold me these 2 rings because he didn’t think they deserved to be scrapped and melted down.  I was certainly happy to find out what exactly they were once I had them in hand. 

  Let’s start off with the 1986 Big 8 Championship Ring.  For the 1986 OU Big Championship Rings OU had a contract with Jostens to make these rings.  The rings they awarded players back in 1986 were all NON GOLD Rings.  I used to have a real 86 OU Big 8 Champs players ring and it was stamped with QGT and in that time period it would have been what Jostens were making their non gold rings out of and what it would have and should have been stamped or marked.  This 1986 OU Big 8 Ring I have listed in this auction is similar to the  non gold rings that the players got in design and it too was made by the Jostens Ring company but this ring is clearly stamped © Jostens 14K.   The ring has all of the wording as the regular 1986 OU Ring the players got as both sides are exactly the same.  The top of the ring differs as it does still says “Oklahoma Sooners Big 8 Champions” instead of 1986 as the regular ring have this ring has ALL REAL DIAMONDS on both the left and right sides of the ring.  Instead of the Red stone in the middle this ring has ALL REAL DIAMONDS in that same spot making for a real stunning ring.  Again these stones are NOT CZs they are in fact ALL REAL DIAMONDS as I have checked them on my diamond tester. The diamonds look to be of a higher grade than the typical diamonds you would find on occasion on these championship rings.   I am not sure if the scrap dealer who sold me the rings even knew that the rings had all Real Diamonds on them.  Inside of this 1986 OU Ring up for auction it does have the name of “Brian Bosworth” in script. The ring is a size 14 ¼ and weighs in at a Very Heavy 53.9 grams of 14K Gold

  The regular 1984 OU Big 8 Championship rings that were awarded to players were all 10K Gold that season made by Jostens.  This 1984 ring I have in this auction is also made of 10K gold and is stamped © Jostens 10K.  Both sides of the regular 1984 OU Big 8 Champs ring and this ring I have in this auction are the exact same.  The top of the 1984 Big 8 ring in this auction differs just slightly as on the regular 84 Big 8 Ring all of the stones on top are CZ stones.  On the 84 OU Big 8 ring I have up in this auction all of the clear stones on top are indeed All REAL Diamonds and in the place of the 75 point clear stone in the center is what appears to be a garnet stone. Not sure if it’s a semi precious stone as the clear stones are all real diamonds.   Inside of this 1984 Big 8 Champs ring Bosworth’s name is not engraved but since both rings came from the same person and since the 1986 Ring does have Bosworth’s name engraved I am confident that both rings did come from the same source.   The ring is a size 14 and it weighs in at 41.9 grams of 10K Gold.  

  Now the question remains did these rings belonged to Brian Bosworth?   As I mentioned I did not obtain these rings from Bosworth but both rings indeed are upgrades from the normal Big 8 rings that the OU players would have gotten for both seasons with the added real diamonds.  In the case of the 1986 OU Rings it’s even more of an upgrade as the regular 1986 players rings were non gold and this ring I have for sale is a 14K Gold Ring.  Both rings as stated as well as the regular rings from 1984 and 1986 were all made by the Jostens ring company.

  I have had a number of theories I have come up with over the years that could explain these rings and how they came to be they include they could have been extra rings that OU had made up to give to the Boz.   They could have been special ordered rings that Boz himself had ordered for himself.  Or they could have just been the regular rings that the school just gave to Boz.  If so I am sure this breaks a lot of rules for giving players rings like this that have much more value as the ring that were given to other players on the team.

    The Fact that the same company who made the players regular rings in 1984 and in 1986 clearly made these rings too tells me these are 200% legit Championship Rings that were either given to or made especially for the Boz or may have even been ordered custom for himself.  

  As a side note on both rings instead of a player name it says LINEBACKER as Brian was a LB while playing for the Sooners.  Instead of a jersey number it has the number 1 on both rings which could mean that they are referring to him being the #1 Linebacker in the Country in those years.         

  These rings do remind me of what the “Shaq” O’Neil got when he won the 3 titles in LA.  It’s not widely known with the exception of people like myself who deal in real championship ring but Shaq didn’t get the same rings as the other players got when the Lakers won the 3 title with Shaq on the team.  As far as I know Shaq was the only person who got what I called “Super Sized” versions of those Lakers rings.  The rings that Shaq got in 2000 and in 2001 were basically the same design as the regular rings but they added a ring of diamonds that go around the entire ring making it larger overall.  I have not seen Shaq’s 2002 Lakers ring so not sure if he got a super sized version of that ring.  On his other NBA World Championship ring in 2006 for the Heat that ring was so large that I would love to see what it would have looked like if Shaq had super sized it.  But who’s to say that by having his 2000 and 2001 Rings super sized it didn’t influence how Jostens made his 2006 Heat Ring?? We all have seen the 2006 Heat “B” Staff Rings which are real large and I bet Shaq just wanted it supersized and it surely was as it’s a monstrous ring.  All of the 15 players on that team that year got the same HUGE Rings not just Shaq.   If you think about it Shaq could have been a strong factor why you see such large rings today.

  Brian Bosworth only played 3 full seasons at OU from 1984-1986 and in those 3 seasons OU won the Big 8 all 3 times and won the 1985 National Championship.  In those years college football teams did not issue out a separate conference ring along with a National Champs ring if you happen to win that year.  Colorado was the first team that I recall that issued out both a conference ring and a separate National Championship Ring in the same season.  So Boz would have only had been awarded 3 different rings.  If he was given a 1985 National Champs ring that was supersized or supped up I would love to see what it looked liked as I didn’t get that one and I only got 2 of the 3 rings.   So since I bought the 2 ring as a set I am selling them as a set and I won’t sell them separately unless I get a real strong offer for one of the rings to split them up. 

  So now you have the story. Most ring sellers would not have and couldn’t not have given you all of this history on a set of rings but I felt that if you’re going to spend this much on a set of rings you should have all of the info on the rings you see up for auction.                

 
I guarantee that these Rings are Authentic 1984 and 1986  Oklahoma Big 8 Championship  Rings that most likely were owned at one time by College Football Hall of Famer Brian Bosworth.   I offer my Exclusive 200% Money Back Guarantee if this ring I am selling is not what I say it is.   NO one offers this kind of money back guarantee. So bid with confidence that you are indeed bidding on a Ring and NOT some kind of salesman sample or a replica or a copy or a fake. I don't sell Fakes, Replicas, or Copies.



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