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he didn’t play. Nonetheless, he does not have any regrets. Like Ted Williams, he feels that his body of work should determine how his career is rated.

There are several great quarterbacks who not only do not own a ring, but they also never played in the game. That list includes John Brodie, Dan Marino, Dan Fouts, Jim Hart, and Randall Cunningham.

How is it that they, Jim Kelly, Fran Tarkenton and so many others did not enjoy the raining down of the confetti on the winners and Tom Brady has rings for seven of his eight fingers?

Chuck Howley is next on the list of Super Bowl Rings won with five, two from his years with the San Francisco 49ers and three while playing for the Dallas Cowboys.

If your team is great, then there is the likelihood of there being multiple great players becoming honored. There are many players who played for the Chuck Noll Steelers who accumulated four rings, one of whom is Lynn Swann, the elite receiver who now lives at Lake Oconee.

As a member of the Augusta National, he has had fun when serving as a committee host at the upscale restaurant and sports bar, Berckman’s Place, by allowing fans to have their photo made with him and his four Super Bowl rings.

For some in the sports arena, when it comes to championship artifacts, there is an embarrassment of riches and for others there is the affiliation of the quote in John Greenleaf Miller’s poem Maud Miller: “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been.’” None of the Philly Dawgs will ever have to recite those words.