After 40 Long Years, a Jets Player will Receive a Super Bowl Ring this Year [Video]

Pass the Tabu- John Schmitt (Yes, his name is my name too) was the starting center on the New York Jets 1969 Super Bowl winning team. 2 years later Schmitt was taking surfing lessons at Waikiki Beach while on vacation in Hawaii near the Royal Hawaiian Hotel when shrinkage struck:

"I never thought about the fact that if you stay out in the water for 5 or 6 hours, your hands shrink and the ring fell off about a quarter mile out from the shore," Schmitt said. "I got a snorkel and some flippers and I went out and I dove until I was blue. I'm not kidding you. It must have been three hours I was out there looking. I couldn't find it anywhere. I was just exhausted. I virtually could not swim or flip my legs anymore and I just went in broken hearted."

Schmitt is getting it back.....because the lifeguard died.



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