Dexter Sold His SB XVII Ring for $5,000

Friday, February 05 2010

Mike Wise penned a terrific column for today’s Post about Dexter Manley’s relationship with a Texas lawyer who brought the troubled pass rusher back from the brink, and the arc of the story bends around a piece of jewelry:

During a relapse in 1998, Manley walked into a pawn shop in the southwest part of Houston. Low on cash, on the verge of eviction, he took the first of two Super Bowl rings he won in Washington and gave it to the man behind the counter.

Manley walked out with $5,000, which soon disappeared in puffs of white smoke. And that was that.

Amazing. Even moreso? That Manley’s lawyer friend/mentor went back into the same store a year later and bought the thing for $15,000 cash.

The ring is now back in Dexter’s possession, as it should be, and Manley is...
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