Mom: ‘Money ran out’ for hurt playerWhatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and so it was for former New England Patriot Brock Williams’ priceless 2002 Super Bowl ring, which the now disabled cornerback swapped to a pawn shop for $2,000 in chump change.
“He was offered $15,000 to sell it, but he said no. He just borrowed some money and never came back,” said Rick Harrison, owner of the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop on the Las Vegas Strip.
That was three years ago. But a heartbroken Marie Williams, who to this day doesn’t know what her 29-year-old son was thinking, told the Herald, “It would be a miracle if we could get this ring back. It would be a godsend.”
Williams was not aware her son’s Super Bowl XXXVI finger bling commemorating the Pats’ first-ever NFL championship was sitting in a revolving Sin City display case behind a sign that reads, “No, you can’t touch it or wear it.”
“We knew he pawned it somewhere,” she said from her home in Louisiana.
Despite “serious offers of $60,000 for it,” Harrison, who took ownership of the ring when Brock Williams failed to claim it after 120 days, has only teased it on eBay for more than $100,000.
“I don’t plan on actually selling it,” Harrison said. “It is worth more just from the people who come in my shop to see it.”
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