Friday, 21st July 2006 (3921 views)

The members of the British Columbia Lions 1964 championship-winning team are to be awarded their Canadian Football League Grey Cup winners rings after 42 years, the Vancouver Sun reports.

"We figured it's about time," said co-captain of the 1964 Lions, Norm Fieldgate, who is now 74.

At an awards ceremony scheduled for 3rd August, each member of the successful Lions team will be presented with a ten-carat gold and diamond ring encrusted with an onyx stone. Each item's worth is estimated at between $2,500 and $3,000.

The design by Baron Insignias features a gold lion plus the name and position of each individual player on his ring. Each item has had to be specially measured for the players' larger-than-normal fingers.

The club have only now presented their championship team with the rings because when they originally triumphed in the 1960s the club could not afford to furnish the players with the commemorative jewellery.

 

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