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Alabama may have come up short of a national championship last season, but the Crimson Tide still won the SEC title, and that’s something to be proud of.
On Monday, after the annual steak and beans post-spring game dinner, players received their rings to honor that conference championship.
As you can see below, the rings look incredible, with plenty of bling and personalized engravings:
These SEC rings are something serious. #SECChamps pic.twitter.com/djsh2hkDG3
— Mac Hereford (@Mac_Hereford) April 15, 2019
With rings like that for winning the SEC title, imagine how crazy the rings will be if the Tide win the national championship this season.
For now, though, it’s another piece of jewelry to add to the collection of many of the older players — most of whom actually do have a national championship ring in their possession.
So…should we pull an Auburn and give ourselves division champs rings and tweet about it with the score of the Clemson-Bama game or something?
That’s just sad dude
Well-deserved rings. Winning the SEC is a hell of an accomplishment, IMHO. Congrats to the team.
What does Auburn have to do with this article?
Rings, good sir.
They made rings in 1980?
I don’t think they made 3rd place conference rings, no.
What about national champ rings?
Why yes, they did. Thanks to modern moola winnings and such, today’s rings are much more glamorous and sizeable, like the 2017 or 2018 SEC Championship rings, or Steph Curry’s rings for which he has 0 finals MVPs.
1980 isn’t modern Kirby
Exactly why I said, “thanks to modern moola winnings and such, TODAY’s rings are much more glamorous and sizable”.
Even your 3rd place rings.
So you all got rings for 2nd place? I wonder how those compare to modern national championship rings
Well, you’ve never made the playoff, so you would know least of us.
If UGA gave out division champ rings, they certainly haven’t and better not post a tweet bragging about it.
Shouldn’t you celebrate if you are a champion?
Is making the playoff the goal or winning the championship?
Winning the East this past year wasn’t necessarily a great enough accomplishment to trumpet said championship on social media.
Making the playoff is a necessary goal to achieve towards winning the CFP.
Who won a social media championship?
And It is now yes but if you don’t win it then it is all for nothing..
I said “trumpet said championship on social media”. In other words, to post a tweet with pictures of the rings bragging about it.
And no, actually, it isn’t for nothing. Making the playoff brings attention and publicity to your brand, it gives you an appearance in the semifinal (a traditional NY6 bowl), and in Georgia’s case, they earned an exciting victory in a very historical bowl game which did wonders for many of their player’s draft values.
Oh.. so winning the toughest division in football doesn’t do that for Auburn? Pretty sure it brought attention to the program and allowed us to play (although players didn’t want too) in a NY6 bowl.
Never said it didn’t. However, I wouldn’t be posting pictures of said rings after I got walloped in the conference championship and beat by a snotnose GO5 team in a bowl game.
That’s funny.. Walloped.. lol it was 13-7 going into the 4th quarter and a pretty evenly matched game till that point despite our best player being hurt. Maryland was 5-7 and they beat Texas.
It’s a championship. You are supposed to celebrate it.
You do you, my good man. I for one hope my team refrains from bragging about 3rd place rings for the world to hear.
KS… Have you ever witnessed UGA win a CFB NC?
If get a ring it means you win a championship which means you were first in something… but you do you 1980
Also don’t know how you are getting 3rd place..
Alabama beat Georgia who beat Auburn. Hence, Auburn finished the season as the 3rd best SEC team.
Auburn beat Alabama and UGA.
Auburn was 1st in the west. Uga was 1st in the east. They played. Uga won. Uga finished first in conference. Auburn finished 2nd.
Well, most people including Alabama fans on this site would argue that Alabama’s win over UGA in the CFP put them at the top, setting UGA at 2nd and Auburn at 3rd.
The CFP has nothing to do with conference championships.. we’ve learned that. In regards to SEC standings Auburn was 2nd ahead of Alabama and uga was 1st
Bama was number one in the nation. It would have been great to win the conference too but I doubt many Bama fans really care…..
It’s good for UGA to brag about that conference championship as it’s been so long since they actually won a CFB NC that most UGA fans probably haven’t witnessed in their lifetime…. Congratulations on such and amazing feat By UGA…
Why thank you–although I must say it pales in comparison to Alabama’s regular accomplishments during Saban’s tenure there.
You’re welcome… When you’ve never witnessed the team you pull for win a NC in your life time the small things is all you have….
Wow, why don’t you save yourself some time and just type: “I’m still butthurt over losing the SEC Championship game.”
–>Joke–>
You
Oh yeah, some joke. That’s why everyone is bangin’ on you instead of laughing.
I’m sorry the humor doesn’t reach you.
It didn’t reach anyone.
Reached me just fine.
Hey numb nutts, I’m sure Georgia did hand out East Division Champion rings….just like in 2012. Just like every divisional champ. And for an accurate comparison, it would have to have a tweet with the scores over Florida and Kentucky depicting how the East was won. Or, maybe just a pic of some Charmin toilet paper would be sufficient.
But UF and UK didn’t beat us by 3 TDs a few weeks later, bud.
Kirby, go celebrate Tiger’s Masters victory. He’s the only athlete in recent history wearing red & black to win a championship in Georgia.
Touche, that was pretty good.
Almost as good as your school needing a dude kicked out of UF to win your last NC.
Cam didn’t get kicked out but good try..
Whoops, my apologies. He was “only” arrested on felony charges, suspended from the team, and faced possible expulsion for 3 instances of academic dishonesty prior to his transfer.
Auburn caught lightning in a bottle with Cam Newton and won its first national championship since 1956. Auburn won 8 and 3 games the next two seasons respectively.
Kirby give Wikipedia credit next time you use them as a source. As far as the academic dishonesty thing.. don’t trust Thayer Evans on any reporting.
Boxster – uga caught lightning in a bottle in 1980 and hasn’t since then
UGA was in the national championship hunt in 81, lost to Purdue on a last second bomb (which is unfortunately a sad theme for UGA) in the championship game in 82, and in the hunt again in 83. Don’t get me wrong, that’s absolutely nothing to brag about in the least, but that’s not lightning in a bottle.
Since 2010, Auburn has appeared in a national championship and lost in the last seconds and was in the hunt in 2017. Don’t get me wrong, that’s nothing to brag about but that’s not lightning in a bottle like you mentioned.
Argh, SDS won’t let me post links to site my wonderful source of Wikipedia. My apologies for the plagiarism though. Should’ve paraphrased it.
I guess 4 division championships and 1 conference championship in the last 8 years with 2 NY6 appearances and a playoff is pretty much lightning in a bottle.
Dang, y’all came to snatch Kirby’s soul with the quickness for that joke.
I think the novelty of UGA fans bashing everything and everyone on all the articles has worn off…..
Ah yes, what a bashing that was.
Sure seemed like a shot at Auburn to me… It’s so second nature to UGA fans now you don’t even realize you’re throwing shade….
Wow… I’m sorry if my jab at your biggest rival… offended you… though why you’d respond to the discussion confuses me… i guess it is your team’s article…
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Yes you do seem confused… You just pretended like you didn’t “bash” someone when you clearly did…
You should have stayed quiet a long time ago instead of getting embarrassed by these Auburn fans dragging underachieving U through the mud…
Whelp, if a jab about a stupid tweet is a bash in your eyes, then that’s your opinion.
It seems to be more than just a bash in my eyes. If it wasn’t a shot then you wouldn’t have these other fans calling you out…. You went on a Bama article and took a shot at Auburn. It has nothing to do with opinion.
Your offering has been noted.
This might be a dumb question, but do the number of diamonds correspond to the number of people in the Alabama program?
Steak and Beans…much better than the leader of the free world’s offer of lukewarm hamberders and cold fries.
Dang, a Georgia fan is the first to post on a Bama story and does so by throwing shade at Auburn. What’s up with these guys in Athens? Why do they feel the need to constantly berate other teams and fanbases?
39,476 and counting. Enjoy!
Not only that but he tried to play it off as though he didn’t throw shade at them..