1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring: PICTURES ADDED

[jeff of pa]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

If you EMail me the Pictures I can Resize & post them here for you.

[email protected]

Jeff


P.S.

I hope you Realize This Guy above me is Pulling your Chain

 

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[RemiPrudhomme]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

If you EMail me the Pictures I can Resize & post them here for you.

[email protected]

Jeff


P.S.

I hope you Realize This Guy above me is Pulling your Chain

Not chain.Ring My ring not his.

 

[jlucas]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

i would send you some pictures but i am not set up on outlook express, do you have a regular email address.

 

[jeff of pa]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

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[jeff of pa]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

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[jeff of pa]

Remi Prudhomme DE-C 1966-67 died. 12/6/1990

 

[jlucas]

sorry about my computer illiteracy, my teenager just corrected me, you should have your pictures.

 

[RemiPrudhomme]

You have heard of ghosts?







Boo.....

 

[jeff of pa]

You have heard of ghosts?







Boo.....

Happy Halloween

 

[Salvager]

WOW what a find!!! Puts using a metal detector to shame
It's brilliant to see you went through and found the family.
Congratulations and thank you for the post.

Have fun,
Jesse

 

[jlucas]

hey, now i'm hooked on hidden treasures. if i were to buy a metal detector, as a beginner, but also wanting a good quality, what one would u all suggest? ( ive heard there are some that tell u what type of material the object is...is this true?)

 

[Jeffro]

Alltogether now - The Garrett Ace 250. Good starting detector for not much bucks. Alot of the bells and whistles of top of the line models for around $200.

 

[Pimp Lenin]

Re: 1965 Buffal Bills AFL Championship Ring

hey everyone, we found the family in baton rouge. they are very interested in recieving the ring back. the news will be covering the story and the local paper. the son of remi prudhomme has remi's super bowl 4 ring and now he will have this one as well. he has 2 little boys which he will be able to pass the rings on to, so it will all end well. you guys keep on having fun doing what you guys do and i hope yall found it to be interesting. thanks , jeff

Hey Jeff,

I live in Madisonville let me know when the story runs in the paper and I'll keep an eye out for it. Let me know if it will be in the Advocate or the Picayune.

 

[jlucas]

i'll let u know..........looks like they may actually do a segment on the news with regards to the return of the ring...

 

[shootist]

hey really cool find,I bet the family is just thrilled. When they do your interview segment of the story you could put in a plug about metal detecting and maybe get yourself some good permissions down that way,and the treasure gods are smiling on you for returning that ring...GL

 

[captain Jack]

Nice find and congrats on doing the right thing by giving it back to the family. I bet that was (in a way) hard to do. That was for sure the find of a life time. I know lots of people on here return things whenever possible, but every time I see it happen it reminds me that there are still plenty of good people out there that remember to do the right thing.

High class move, man.

 

[lostdutchman]

Read the news report online about the ring. Congratulations on a GREAT find!! And doing a great service in returning it.

 

[jeff of pa]

http://www.beloblog.com/WWLTV_Blogs/northshorenews/2006/10/lost_ring_from_41_years_ago_is.html

Lost ring from 41 years ago is found
October 10, 2006
A northshore plumber was doing some work near 14th Street in downtown Covington and came across an incredible discovery.

Remi Prudhomme's 1965 AFL Championship game ring.

In 1964, Prudhomme was drafted from LSU to the Buffalo Bills. Prudhomme was on the winning team.

After playing for the Bills, Prudhomme then went to the Kansas City Chiefs and eventually played for the New Orleans Saints.

The finders aren't playing keepers. The finders cleaned the ring up and want to return the ring to the family.

If you know of Remi Prudhomme's family, please contact WWL's northshore bureau at 985.626.4434.

Posted by Lesli Fumar at October 10, 2006 12:02 PM

 

[Mainedigger]

Jeff.....GREAT find....am sure the family will be thrilled to get the ring back, especially where Remi has passed away. Thanks for all your efforts in finding the family, people like yourself (especially with the news stories and coverage generated by this ring) only help us and shows that most in this hobby are honest and not only enjoy our finds, but get a special thrill out of returning items such as this....CONGRATS on a great find and a happy ending to a great story!!!
MD

 

[River Rat]

Jeff,

Sorry I missed the original post, looking back at the date, I was in MO at the time.

This is just astonishing . I tried to follow all the details, researched with newspapers in New Orleans and Baton Rouge and I finally did a google search and found this.

Kudos to you, Jeff

RR

http://www.beloblog.com/WWLTV_Blogs/northshorenews/2006/10/lost_ring_returned.html

STRANGER THAN FICTION
by Jeff Lucas
October 20, 2006

Jeff Lucas, a plumber in Louisiana, recently was digging a ditch and found a 1965 Buffalo Bills American Football League Championship ring that belonged to the late Remi Prudhomme. Wanting to return the ring to the Bills or to Prudhomme's family, he contacted the "Professional Football Researcher's Association" web forum. He was met by ridicule and disbelief by the PFRA, but he persevered, and recently sent this e-mail in response to one from Remember the AFL:

thanks for the email, here's kind of a quick run down as to what happened.
ms. alice casserta (80 years old) on 14th street in covington [Louisiana] needed a gas line for her generator, seeing that she is on breathing treatments and power
goes out here quite often when damaged trees from hurricane katrina fall
down simply from a high wind. as i kneeled down to tie the gasline into the
meter i saw a piece of brass [gold] sticking out of a piece of dirt. i picked it up
and started chiseling away the dirt with my knife and was amazed at what i
found [Prudhomme's AFL Championship ring]. a couple of days later i went back to ms. casserta's house and told her what i had found and she almost fainted, i thought i was going to have to call for an ambulance. remi lived right next door to ms. casserta and she even recalls when he lost the ring. she said they looked and looked for it in both yards and never found it. ms. casserta knew the prudhomme's very well and still talks to his ex-wife who lives in baton rouge, la, so we called her up to let her know the details of the events that took place, and
she was very happy that it had been found and that her kids would be able to
have it. remi's son renè has his kansas city 4th superbowl ring so their
family decided that remi's daughter would receive this one. that's the short
story.
Remi Prudhomme, an All-American offensive lineman and a member of the "Chinese Bandits" at LSU, was drafted in 1964 by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills. Although he was on the Bills' "taxi squad" for 1964 and 1965, the team awarded him a 1965 AFL Championship ring, and he is in their 1965 Championship photo, though he did not play his first official AFL game until 1966. Prudhomme later played for Kansas City. In the Fourth World Championship Game, he recovered a Vikings fumble at the Minnesota 19 to set up a Chiefs touchdown in their crushing defeat of the NFL champions, who had been hailed by the "experts" as "the greatest team in pro football history".
Prudhomme died December 6, 1990, at age 48.
Although Jeff Lucas was offered $3,500 for the ring, he did the right thing and arranged to return it to Remi's family. Kudos, Jeff!