Unlike most sports, Grand Final wins in rugby league come with a very unique prize for players.
Instead of getting a medal, you are given a ring.
What players do with these rings varies. It’s to hope that Jamie Peacock doesn’t wear his winners rings. As Super League’s most successful player with the Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos, he would only have one finger – including the thumbs – without a ring on it, which wouldn’t be so comfortable.
These rings are often a player’s most prized possession at the end of their career, especially if you only have one, which was the case with former Leeds Rhinos tough man Marc Glanville, who won the NRL Premiership in 1997 and later received a winner’s ring.
A special memory for Glanville, whom he feared he had lost in recent weeks by imploring the public to help him find his ring.
He believed he accidentally gave it to the Salvation Army after moving house, but no one could find the ring.
That was until he checked another bag inside his house, where he found the ring that never left him in a surprise twist of fate.
It left him “a bit embarrassed” according to the Daily Mail.
“I’m cursing myself for not checking (the bag),” a frantic Glanville told NBN News last week.
“Losing that big final ring is very special and holds a lot of memories.
“It means the world to me.”
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