Winter Auction 2016 Closing January 30th
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/31/2016
Weeb Ewbank called Verlon Biggs "a great team player who was always where he was supposed to be." Calvin Hill called him "the absolute dirtiest player I ever saw," adding, "He'd poke you in the eye, step on your hand, kick you in the crotch. It didn't matter, he was just pure dirty...No wonder he became a professional wrestler after he stopped playing." A three-time All Star, Biggs played in Super Bowl III with the Jets and Super Bowl VII with the 'Skins, who proved unable to thwart the Dolphins' dreams of a perfect season. Post-retirement, Biggs wrestled and farmed, before dying of leukemia in 1994 at age 51. His Jostens 14K-gold ring measures an enormous size 15 and features a raised gold Redskins logo seated atop a red stone, encircled by 56 points' worth of diamonds. The inner band is engraved "Verlon Biggs." NM condition. Accompanied by a Jostens box, 1996 purchase LOA, and photocopied 1995 pawnbroker receipt listing Verlon's wife Linda Biggs.