Chiefs’ Super Bowl ring looks awfully familiar

The Super Bowl ring reveal is a special time each year for the winning team. It’s a chance for the players, coaches, and even fans to once again revel in being the best team in the NFL while getting something so many great players and teams have never achieved. On a more superficial level, it’s also a great opportunity to see the exciting and rather extravagant designs of rings few of us will ever be able to afford.

Now, some of you may think the combination of diamonds and glittering metals is a bit too overwhelming to notice a difference in general. But if you look back through the years, each team seems to outdo the previous winner in style and excess. Until this year at least . . .

The Kansas City Chiefs just unveiled their design after winning Super Bowl LIV and I couldn’t help but think I’ve seen that design before. Take a look at the Chiefs’ ring:

Does that remind you of anything? Let’s take a look back at the Baltimore Ravens’ Super Bowl XLVII ring for comparison:

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Umm, that seems a little similar, don’t you think?

Aside from the team logo and some smattering of gold here and there, you can argue that these two rings are nearly identical. Now, I’m not sure how many different ways the “two Lombardi look” can be displayed on a piece of fine jewelry, but if a team strives to outdo years past, the Chiefs fall quite a bit short here.

Blame COVID, blame the ring company (it’s worth noting that the same company crafted both rings), blame whatever you want, but I’m not sure anything’s a valid excuse for the lack of imagination this year. Now, I’m not trying to take anything away from Kansas City’s remarkable Super Bowl season and victory, but I’d want the ring to be as unique and exciting as the experience and success it commemorates.

Maybe the Ravens, who are predicted to be among the top Super Bowl contenders this season, will host the Lombardi and earn new rings of their own. Then they can show the Chiefs how to actually outdo years past, not only when it comes to the bling, but maybe on the field too.