William Perry's Super Bowl ring up for auction
If you want to buy Will Perry's Super Bowl ring, you better have big hands.
Better known as "The Fridge," the former Chicago Bears defensive tackle's ring will be up for auction Thursday, according to Darren Rovell of ESPN. Rovell adds that the ring is somewhere between size 23 and 25, and it is believed to be the largest in Super Bowl history.
Perry obtained the ring after capturing Super Bowl XX with the Bears, but he won't be selling it. The 52-year-old already sold it in 2000 to a collector, who in turn sold it at auction for more than $27,000. The latest buyer is the one putting it up for sale Thursday with Heritage Auctions, and bids are already up to $31,070.
However, there is debate as to whether this ring is actually Perry's. The person who bought the ring from Perry in 2000 received a certificate of authenticity, according to Chris Ivy of Heritage Auctions, but there were also salesman samples produced when the original was made.
A 10-year-old named Cliff Forrest Jr. bought a ring he believed was Perry's in 2011 and gave it to "The Fridge." Ivy believes the one he is selling is real, but Perry disagrees.
"What that kid and his daddy brought to me four years ago, I think that was the original one," said Perry on Wednesday evening. "I had to cut the ring even more in the middle to fit my finger, and that one had the cut in it."
Perry still has that ring today.