LOCKOUT CASUALTIES: Green Bay Packers Can't Get Their Super Bowl Rings

[Omaha Steve]

Source: businessinsider.com

Kim Bhasin

With the business of football at a complete halt, players on the Green Bay Packers aren't even able to get the rings they earned when they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, according to the New York Times.

Players are traditionally presented the rings at a ceremony in June, but Packers executives and coaches are the ones that have to order the rings, and they're not allowed to contact the players to discuss the design because of the lockout. The NFL hasn't done anything yet to facilitate the process.

And it's not just the rings. The Packers haven't accepted President Obama's invitation to the White House yet because none of the players would be allowed to attend. The players can't appear at school and charity events either, which are normally frequent during the off-season. Events hosted by the team have also been postponed because of the lockout, and Packers fans have been left hanging throughout the proceedings.

Most of the traditional post- and off-season activities have been put on hold, which is especially tough on Green Bay since they are the only public-owned team and those shareholders can't even enjoy their Super Bowl championship.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/green-bay-packers-super-bowl-rings-2011-3

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Bastards! NO CHARITY EVENTS????

[SirHarukaTheThird]

1. They need to get this sorted out

[glinda]

2. I am a MN. cheesehead so I sympathize.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. Our Governor made sure WE didn't get a chance to enjoy it either.

He started with the sucker punches just days after they won. Most of us here in Wisconsin can't even REMEMBER that they won.

[pacalo]

5. That's so true: Just days after Green Bay won, Wisconsinites were sucker punched

& had no time to really savor the win. Walker is just all-around bad for Wisconsin, which deserves so much better than that lunkhead.

Btw, my husband has been a true-blue Packers fan since he was a little boy. Season after season, he's been faithfully pulling for them. :)

[Blue Owl]

11. From the Rose Bowl to the Super Bowl and then to the Toilet Bowl

Just makes me loathe Scott Fucking Walker all the more

[htuttle]

4. Now THAT'S going to make us Cheeseheads to REALLY RIOT!!!

:grr:

[snot]

6. This stinks.

[Nossida]

7. Oh Gawd!!!

Its Armageddon I say!!!

[BrightKnight]

8. No Charity because a few greedy bastards want to steal what the players have earned.

Football makes money because of the players.

[Blacksheep214]

9. It was a heart attack season!

Even the players were amazed how many last second games we had. Who expected a heart attack off season? I'm a shareholder and I don't want to lock our team out.

We won the Super Bowl!!! Woo Hoo!!! :toast:

[Omaha Steve]

10. I'm a lifelong Packer fan

I remember watching the ice bowl and wondered how they could play in the intense cold. I doubt another NFL game will ever be played (outside) under those conditions.