Wednesday 23 August 2017 16:25, UK
President Donald Trump has been awarded a Super Bowl championship ring by the New England Patriots.
New England owner Robert Kraft decided after the team's April visit to the White House to have a ring made for Trump so he would have something special to display in his presidential library.
The sitting president usually receives gifts from sports teams during celebratory White House visits, with a personalised team jersey standard issue, but Kraft opted to gave Trump a ring as well,
The Patriots' 2017 ring is their fifth and is made with white gold and more than 280 diamonds. The ring is the largest Super Bowl ring ever made, making it bigger than the Patriots' 2015 rings that were valued at $36,500 apiece.
The ring goes not only to players and coaches but team staffers and others, including quarterback Tom Brady's mother, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Some receive a less-expensive version of the ring but it was not known which version Trump was given.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is also in possession of a Super Bowl ring, like Trump, after acquiring one, also from Patriots owner Kraft during a 2005 meeting in Moscow.
During a business trip to Russia, the NFL owner showed Putin the ring, and the Russian president, believing it to be a gift, pocketed it, saying "I could kill someone with this ring."
The Patriots have made five visits to the White House after each of their five Super Bowl titles, all since the 2001 season.
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The regular season of home and away matches run from September to December 2017, culminating in PlayOffs from January 6, 2018 and the Super Bowl on February 4, 2018 at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota to determine the world champion.
