{"id":22492,"date":"2025-02-24T03:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22492"},"modified":"2025-02-24T03:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:03:49","slug":"plaxico-burress-sells-super-bowl-42-championship-ring-for-record-setting-price-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22492","title":{"rendered":"Plaxico Burress Sells Super Bowl 42 Championship Ring For Record-Setting Price At Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plaxico Burress\u2019s <a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a042 championship ring, which he won with the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/new-york-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Giants<\/a>\u00a0in the 2007 season, just sold for a record-breaking price at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Burress caught the game-winning touchdown against the previously undefeated New England Patriots with 35 seconds left in the big game. The Giants held on to complete the stunning upset of\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/tom-brady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Brady<\/a>\u2019s squad, who fell short of becoming the first 19-0 team in\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0history.<\/p>\n<p>According to Darren Rovell of cllct.com, Burress\u2019s championship ring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darrenrovell\/status\/1893534324319732050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sold at Heritage Auctions for<\/a>\u00a0the jaw-dropping price of $280,600. This is the most expensive Super Bowl ring ever sold, breaking the record of Lawrence Taylor\u2019s Super Bowl 25 ring that sold for $230,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=alexhoegler&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1893534324319732050&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.totalprosports.com%2Fnfl%2Fplaxico-burress-sells-super-bowl-42-championship-ring-for-record-setting-price-at-auction%2F&amp;sessionId=8a37dd58a28d1d87da42b7cd8ea8b727f3480db1&amp;siteScreenName=totalprosports&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1893534324319732050\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Burress had two catches for 27 yards in the Giants\u2019 victory, beating Ellis Hobbs on a slick slant fade route to haul in the game-winning score. The New York defense forced a turnover on downs to ice, perhaps, the biggest upset in NFL history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HEARTBREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Giants<\/a> legend Plaxico Burress&#8217;s Super Bowl ring recently sold for $280,600 at auction.<\/p>\n<p>From the Super Bowl, where NY beat the undefeated Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The highest amount ever paid for a Super Bowl ring, beating out Lawrence Taylor\u2019s Super Bowl XXV ring.<\/p>\n<p>Awful\u2026 \ud83d\udc94 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Gg9qDexnG\">pic.twitter.com\/7Gg9qDexnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLFootball (@_MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MLFootball\/status\/1893734568894591330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Four years later, Eli Manning and the Giants would beat Brady\u2019s Patriots again in Super Bowl 46. Ahmad Bradshaw scored the game-winning rushing TD with 57 seconds remaining, and Tom Brady\u2019s last-second Hail Mary heave fell incomplete as New York held on for a 21-17 win.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-plaxico-burress-was-a-vastly-underrated-wide-receiver\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plaxico Burress Was A Vastly Underrated Wide Receiver<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1964744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-120969863.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-120969863-595x425.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-120969863-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-120969863.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jeremy Shockey and Plaxico Burress (Photo by Tom Berg\/NFLPhotoLibrary)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The back end of Burress\u2019s playing career was derailed by off-the-field issues that saw him spend two years in prison, thus wiping out his 2009 and 2010 campaigns. But Burress was one of the best wide receivers of his era, recording 553 receptions for 8,499 yards and 64 touchdowns in just 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Plaxico Burress\u2019s Super Bowl\u00a042 championship ring, which he won with the\u00a0New York Giants\u00a0in the 2007 season, just sold for a record-breaking price at auction. Burress caught the game-winning &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22494,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22492\/revisions\/22494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}