The Tiffany & Co. Super Bowl Trophy

Players’ diamond-encrusted rings might get all the attention at the NFL’s final playoff, but football’s greatest prize also has a strong jewelry pedigree.

Since the first Super Bowl back in 1967, Tiffany & Co. has made the annual Vince Lombardi Trophy for the winning team. Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to victory in Super Bowls I and II, is a legend in football coaching for his leadership and instructional capabilities. 

Former Tiffany vice president Oscar Riedener sketched the original trophy design on a napkin during a 1966 meeting with then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle. Featuring a sterling-silver football in kicking position, the trophy is 22 inches high, weighs 7 pounds, and takes about four months — a total of 72 hours — to complete in the brand’s Rhode Island workshop.

Since Super Bowl XXV in 1991, Tiffany has also created the Pete Rozelle trophy, which is named after the former NFL commissioner and is awarded to the Super Bowl MVP (most valuable player).

Tiffany has also made seven Super Bowl rings, the most recent of which was for the Seattle Seahawks in 2014. The white gold ring contained 183 diamonds, 42 blue sapphires, and a marquise-cut tsavorite for the eye of the team’s hawk mascot. 

Other football trophies designed and made by Tiffany include those given out at the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The jeweller creates trophies for many other major sporting events, including basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, soccer and horseracing  

Main image: The Vince Lombardi Trophy, designed by Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany & Co.)