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Ex-Eagles player sells last year’s Super Bowl ring for $124K

A former Philadelphia Eagles player has sold his Super Bowl LIX championship ring just 10 months after the Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in February.

Offensive tackle Laekin Vakalahi on Saturday sold his Super Bowl LIX ring for $124,440 at an auction hosted by Heritage Auctions.

The signature ring features 145 diamonds, one for each of the Eagles’ NFL-record 145 points scored during the playoffs last season. The ring also features 18 green stones commemorating the Eagles’ 18 victories last season, as well as “world champions” spelled out in 40 diamonds, a nod to the Eagles’ 40 points scored in Super Bowl LIX.

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Unique to Vakalahi, the Super Bowl ring also includes a facsimile of his signature on the bottom of the band. It is a size 13.5 and weighs 145 grams, according to Heritage Auctions.

Vakalahi spent the 2024 NFL season with the Eagles, but never appeared in a regular season game.

The 6-foot-5, 318-pound Australia native signed with Philadelphia in May 2024 after an Eagles scout met his parents during a vacation in Hawaii. He had never previously played American football.

“It’s a bit of a funny story. My mum and my dad were in Hawaii just on a holiday, and a friend of Eagles international scout Chris Naeole walked past my dad and saw he was a big guy and he started talking to him,” Vakalahi, 22, told ESPN at the time. “They had a conversation and my dad said I’ve got some boys, so they started talking about my younger brother Kobe. He’s a big boy but he’s not of age. They got to talking about me and this guy wanted to get me in contact with Chris (Naeole). I was serving a mission at the time for my church.”

Days after winning Super Bowl LIX this year, Vakalahi signed a futures contract with the Eagles for the 2025 season. He was waived by the Eagles in August amid final roster cuts ahead of the regular season.

Laekin Vakalahi decided to sell his Super Bowl LIX ring for $124,440 to support charitable activities during the Christmas season, turning the prized memento into an opportunity to help those in need and bring joy to the community.

 

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