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    Ex-Eagle McDonald loses '60 championship ring

    Eagles Hall of Famer Tommy McDonald is hoping someone can help him recover his 1960 NFL championship ring.

    “He lost it about a week ago and he is sick about it,” his wife Patty said.

    McDonald believes he may have lost the ring during one of his frequent trips to the King of Prussia Mall. The 76-year-old McDonald lives close to the mall and often goes there to walk and socialize.

    McDonald thinks he may have removed the ring while he was washing his hands in the men’s room and left it there. He also was in the habit of letting people see the ring and try it on so it is possible someone could have put it in their pocket and walked off with it.

    “I always worried about that,” Patty said. “People would recognize him and stop to talk. One of the first things he’d do was show them his rings [the 1960 championship ring and his Hall of Fame ring]. He’d say, ‘Here, try them on.’

    “Then he would start talking to other people and not paying attention and meanwhile the rings were being passed around. I’d tell him, ‘Tommy, you shouldn’t do that. They could get stolen.’ But he loved doing it.”

    McDonald did it all the time at public appearances, card shows and autograph signings. If he wasn’t wearing the rings, he carried them in his pocket in a velvet pouch.

    He still has his Hall of Fame ring, but the ring commemorating the Eagles 1960 NFL championship is missing. This season the team celebrated the 50th anniversary of that world championship with a ceremony honoring the players at the Eagles regular season opener in September.

    The 5-foot-9 McDonald was a star receiver on the championship team, catching 13 touchdown passes in the 12-game regular season and adding another touchdown reception in the title game against Green Bay. The Eagles defeated the Packers 17-13 at Franklin Field. It was the only postseason game Vince Lombardi ever lost as a head coach.

    McDonald now is hoping to recover his most prized possession of that season, his ring.

    “I don’t know what happened to it,” he said. “I was looking for it [last week] and realized it was gone. I thought I just misplaced it [at home], but I looked and it’s not here. I’d sure like to have it back.”

  • #2
    That is just an incredible shame and this really saddens me. Tommy was a guy who truely played for the love of the game. It never ceases to amaze me how low people can be to rip off the guy's ring. What the hell are they going to do with it anyway? It's worthless because obviously if it surfaces it will be easy to trace. What a world.
    "Hey Giants, who's your Daddy?"

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    • #3
      Tommy McDonald is MY MAN!!! My favorite Eagle of all time!!! Somebody better do the right thing and return that ring!!!

      God bless you, Tommy!
      "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theismann



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      • #4
        I never saw Tommy McDonald play outside of old video clips, but I met him one time, and of all of the famous people I've met in my life, his was easily the most memorable. There isn't a nicer guy who ever played pro sports as far as I can tell.

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        • #5
          This is a case of sometimes bad things happen to good people. Just don't like to see this happen to my All Time Favorite Eagle. As a kid I grew up wearing a #25 jersey all the time.
          There's alot of dumbass people out there & don't be surprised to see his ring show up on e-bay. The culprit will be "shocked" when arrested. Just turn in the ring to the authorites anonomously. No harm, no foul, just give Tommy's ring back. That's all he cares about.
          Just give me ONE before I go!

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          • #6
            Alsomy favorite Eagle. As a small kid who played receiver you could look to him to see you didn't have ot be the biggest.

            Man, I hope he gets it back
            Wait until next year is a terrible philosophy
            Hope is not a strategy
            RIP

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            • #7
              Sorry he "dropped" the ring. He'll never drop that TD pass that put the Eagles ahead of the Packers in in the '60 championship game, when he got free on the South Sideline of Franklin Field and clutched Van Brocklin's sprial, zipped into the end zone, sliding into the ice, and ignited 67,000 frenzied fans.
              Heck, I left my car running when I went shopping last week and I'm just 65. Hope the Eagles replace it for him. Wouldn't it be something if Lurie paid respect to the past that helped get everybody in the game rich today.
              Sonny J

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