Every professional athlete longs to " get a ring" by winning a backup , and earning a Super Bowl ring is for sure a rare and awe-inspiring feat . However , it ’s not that rarified . The NFL has played 41 Super Bowls , and with over fifty people per team , that means that there are at least 2,000 or so player rings float around out there . Plus , all way of omnibus , front - position stave , and other team employees get rings of their own , too . So while a Super Bowl ring is rare , it ’s get nothing on these two from European dramatic art :
1. The Iffland-Ring
This ring boasts a rarity that even Tolkien could apprise : there ’s only one . The doughnut originally survive on the finger of German theater icon A.W. Iffland and features his portrayal constellate with small diamonds . Towards the conclusion of his life , Iffland passed the jewelry on to fellow worker Ludwig Devrient . By tradition , the pallbearer is the most significant survive German - speaking player , and when he become flat his will specifies the next man to wear the band .
This line of succession has n’t always been so clean , though . According to fable , Albert Basserman , who take in the gang in 1911 , continue picking successors who died . After he survive his first three choices , Basserman decided to give up and donated the ring to a museum . However , when he died in 1952 , the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education intervened and awarded the closed chain to Werner Kraub . The current bearer , Swiss actor Bruno Ganz , has worn the anchor ring since 1996 .
2. Hans-Reinhart-Ring
Similarly , the Hans - Reinhart - Ring is awarded to a luminary of the Swiss theater . It ’s not as rarefied as the Iffland - Ring , though , since the ring has been awarded annually since 1957 and each winner get his or her own ring . Not surprisingly , the hoop is name after Hans Reinhart , a wealthy playwright and poet who endowed the programme .
Since its origination , the doughnut has arise to mean the top award in Swiss theatre . Laureates have let in operatic treble Lisa Della Casa , the clown Dmitri , and actor and director Benno Besson . Current Iffland - Ring bearer Bruno Ganz deliver the goods the award in 1991 , feed him the closest matter Swiss stagecraft has to Tom Brady ’s ring - incrust knuckles .
