2006 Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XL Championship Ring

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CHAMPIONSHIP RING

THE STORY OF 2006 SUPER BOWL XL

PITTSBURGH STEELERS

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Super Bowl XL was an American football game between the National Football

Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks and the American Football Conference

(AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL)

champion for the 2005 season. The Steelers defeated the Seahawks by the score of

21–10. The game was played on February 5, 2006, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.


2006 SUPER BOWL XL

CHAMPIONSHIP RING

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With the win, the Steelers joined the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys as

the only franchises to have won five Super Bowls. The Steelers' victory was their first

Super Bowl victory since Super Bowl XIV. Pittsburgh, who finished the regular season

with an 11–5 record, also became the fourth wild card team, the third in nine years,

and the first ever number 6 seed in the NFL playoffs, to win a Super Bowl. The

Seahawks, on the other hand, in their 30th season, were making their first ever Super

Bowl appearance after posting an NFC-best 13–3 regular season record.


2006 SUPER BOWL XL

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Pittsburgh capitalized on two big plays that were converted into touchdowns. The

Steelers jumped to a 14–3 lead early in the third quarter with running back Willie

Parker's Super Bowl record 75-yard touchdown run. Seahawks defensive back Kelly

Herndon's Super Bowl record 76-yard interception return set up a Seattle touchdown

to cut the lead 14–10. But Pittsburgh responded with Antwaan Randle El's 43-yard

touchdown pass to Hines Ward, the first time a wide receiver threw a touchdown pass

in a Super Bowl, to clinch the game in the fourth quarter. Ward, who caught 5 passes

for 123 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 18 yards, was named Super

Bowl MVP. The officiating in Super Bowl XL however was met with criticism from

members of the media soon after the game, leading NFL Films to rank it as one of the

top ten controversial calls of all time.


2006 SUPER BOWL XL

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PITTSBURGH STEELERS


The ring for the Pittsburgh Steelers was designed by Steelers owner Dan Rooney with

Jerome Bettis and Ben Roethlisberger. It is crowned by five Vince Lombardi trophies,

all topped with football-shaped diamond settings to represent their five Super Bowl

victories; Rooney would have preferred the ring to focus exclusively on this team's win,

but Bettis and Roethlisberger, cognizant of a tradition they couldn't help but be

reminded of, insisted that it acknowledge the legacy of those teams (indeed, during the

pre-game MVP introductions, Franco Harris, winner of the award in the Steelers' first

Super Bowl victory, had waved a Terrible Towel as he walked onto the field).


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The base of each trophy has the Roman numeral for their victories, with Super Bowl

XL front and center. In front of the trophies is the Steelers logo set with colored

jewels to mimic the colors of the logo. On the top of the crown is "PITTSBURGH",

and on the bottom is "WORLD CHAMPIONS". One side of the ring has the Super

Bowl XL logo and the score of the game.


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THE STORY OF

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