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The Rings Are Here, and They Have a Secret Button
The 2025 chapter is officially closed. The Seahawks received their Super Bowl LX rings Thursday night at a private ceremony in Seattle for players, coaches and football staff, and the things are gloriously, ridiculously over-engineered. Jason of Beverly Hills built them, and the firm did not hold back.
Start with the centerpiece: a pair of Lombardi Trophy replicas for the franchise’s two titles, sitting behind the Seahawks logo, which is ringed by 50 round white diamonds, one for every season of franchise history. Blue sapphires surround the whole thing. One side carries each player’s name and number above the letters M.O.B., last season’s mantra. The other reads “12 AS ONE” above the Seattle skyline. Inside the band, engraved where only the wearer sees it: “17 WINS.” That’s the regular season and playoffs combined. They didn’t lose much.
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White diamonds surrounding the center logo, one for each season of the franchise’s 50-year history.
Now the gimmicks, and I mean that with love. There’s a 12 Flag button on the side that, when pressed, expands the Lumen Field arches on either side of the centerpiece to reveal the words “WORLD CHAMPIONS.” The team release described it as a spring-and-lever mechanism that took months to engineer. The top of the ring also fully detaches and converts into a pendant you can wear on a chain, and underneath it sits an authentic piece of a football used during the season. The bottom carries 12 feathers for the fanbase.
Tiffany made the XLVIII rings back in 2014. This time it’s Jason of Beverly Hills, the same shop that did the recent Eagles, Rams and Buccaneers rings. Left guard Christian Haynes’ rookie teammate joked to the team site about whether his hand would survive the weight. It’s a fair question. These are not subtle.
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You don’t get to design these unless you win, and most of us spent a couple decades assuming we never would again.
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Injury
Tory Horton Could Be Back by Training Camp
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Remember what Horton was before the shin went: five touchdowns, a 95-yard punt return, and a rookie season that was trending toward something real before it stopped. Macdonald has been careful with the timeline all spring, which is the correct way to handle a lower-leg injury you do not want to rush. “Early training camp” is the first concrete-sounding marker we’ve gotten, and it lands the same week the rest of the receiver room is healthy and the rings are being handed out. Good week to be a Seahawk.
Camp is where this gets real anyway, with HBO cameras in the building. If Horton is moving by late July, the WR depth chart behind JSN suddenly looks a lot more like a strength than a question mark.
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AROUND THE COOP
Around the Coop
Macdonald took the whole team out to do community service the afternoon after a minicamp practice, chasing the same “ultra-connected” feeling he credits for last year’s run. Most coaches close minicamp with a speech. This one closed it with a service project and then a ring ceremony. The man is building something on purpose. Seahawks.com
Macdonald also said tight ends Eric Saubert and Elijah Arroyo and rookie DT Deven Eastern, all of whom sat out minicamp, should all be ready for camp. “Just taking care of them right now,” he said. Translation: nobody’s hurt, everybody’s getting babied through June, and that’s how a defending champion treats a season that doesn’t start until September. Seahawks.com
NFC WEST SCHADENFREUDE REPORT
RAMS
Los Angeles spent the spring telling everyone the Myles Garrett trade made them the team to beat. Then, on Monday night, starting left tackle Alaric Jackson was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence. Per analysts, the NFL’s personal conduct policy carries a baseline six-game suspension for violations of this kind, and the league doesn’t need charges to act. So the franchise that gave up a Hall of Famer and three premium picks to win now is suddenly staring at a hole protecting Matthew Stafford’s blind side. It’s June. The pizzazz is already cracking.
CARDINALS
Arizona told Jacoby Brissett in March he’d be the 2026 starter, which Brissett correctly heard as “you have leverage,” and he’s used it to skip the entire offseason program while seeking a raise. Asked about his QB depth chart at the end of minicamp, rookie head coach Mike LaFleur shrugged: “It is June whatever-it-is. Not worried about it right now.” Nothing says contender like the head coach not being sure who’s taking the first snap of the season, in the building where he just held minicamp without him.
SEACHICKENS TRIVIA
This linebacker wore No. 50 for Seattle, made four straight Pro Bowls in the mid-1980s (two on special teams, two on defense), then was traded to the Colts in 1988 for two future first-round picks. Who is he?
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Fredd Young. A third-round pick out of New Mexico State in 1984, he was Seattle’s special teams player of the year before becoming a defensive force, and the Colts gave up first-rounders in both 1989 and 1990 to land him.
THIS DAY IN SEAHAWKS HISTORY
1987
June 12, 1987
Seattle Wins the Lottery for The Boz
On this date in 1987, the Seahawks won the lottery for the No. 1 pick in the NFL supplemental draft and used it on Oklahoma linebacker Brian Bosworth, the most hyped, most marketed, most polarizing defender in the country. The move cost Seattle its first-round pick in the 1988 draft. “The Boz” started 24 games over three seasons, with 78 tackles as a rookie, before a shoulder injury ended his career early. The hair, the headbands, and the marketing outlived the football, but for one summer Seattle won a literal lottery to land him.
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The chapter's closed and the jewelry's on. Now we wait for camp. Go Hawks. — The Rooster