American Football: man finds super bowl ring in restroom

Super ending as man recovers $20G Pats ring
By Brian Ballou
Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Lou Schorr initially thought the ring sitting on the sink in a restroom at the Providence Place Mall Saturday evening was a worthless and bulky piece of junk jewelry.

When Schorr, 53, of Waltham, showed the ring to his friends, they thought it was a worthless and bulky piece of junk jewelry.

But when he went to the New England Patroits Web site, he discovered he had found Super Bowl bling with 104 glittery diamonds, a value of over $20,000. The players received their rings 11 days ago.

``I knew I had to return it to its owner,'' he said.

Etched on the ring was the name of rookie linebacker Tully Banta-Cain. He told Providence police Saturday he took it off to wash his hands and when he returned 15 minutes later it was gone. Police told him they would investigate. Banta-Cain went to church Sunday and prayed.

Meanwhile, Schorr was showing the ring to two kids wearing Patriots jerseys at a restaurant in Shrewsbury. ``They were amazed,'' Schorr said.

Schorr, a sales representative in Canton, took the ring to work Monday and called the Pats. Banta-Cain picked up his ring in person and promised Schorr a seat at the season opener.

For a 20K ring I'd give the guy seasons tickets. That was reallly good of him to give it back though, if I were him I'd keep it and pretend that I was a great football player until my knee injury that forced me to stop playing.

that is one lucky guy, if he left it there its not considered stealing.

Yeah season tickets, and at least an autographed jersey or something.

Maybe even a repica ring

Yea thats a bit tight. You would have thought he would get a better reward for his honesty.

I would have most prob kept it or sold it...

[Edited on 25/6/04 by TRD]