The rings that the Kansas City Chiefs received Thursday for winning February’s Super Bowl are highly detailed but contain a seeding mistake.
The scores for each victory of what the Chiefs website calls “the toughest playoff run ever” are inscribed on the inside of the rings from memorabilia manufacturer Jostens, including each opponent’s name and seeding.
“This incredible piece of wearable art is a true symbol of the journey that the team took to secure the franchise’s fourth Lombardi Trophy, and we couldn’t be prouder to represent Chiefs Kingdom as champions once again,” Chiefs President Mark Donovan said in a release from Jostens.
In their first game of this past season’s NFL playoffs, the Chiefs, the third seed in the AFC, played Miami at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium and beat the Dolphins 26-7.
The rings have Miami as the seventh seed, when they were, in fact, the sixth seed. The real seventh-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers lost on the road to the second-seeded Buffalo Bills 31-17.
The Chiefs confirmed the error to The Athletic.
Jostens hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
The NFL isn’t the only league with typos.
In February, a statue of the late NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant outside Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena was unveiled with mistakes. The base of the statue featured the scorecard from Bryant’s 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors in 2006, but misspelled the names of Lakers player Von Wafer, the Raptors’ Jose Calderon and the term “coach’s decision.”
The statue was fixed in April.
• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.
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