Winning a football championship is a tremendous accomplishment — and such an accomplishment deserves the perfect ring to help the team celebrate and memorialize that victory.
A personalized championship ring is the perfect way to tangibly display your team’s hard work and dedication to the sport. Once you decide to purchase rings, however, the question remains: How do you choose the best design for your team’s football championship ring? There are hundreds to choose from, after all — and all of them can be personalized to your taste and preferences.
Below, we’re covering everything you need to know to pick the perfect design for football championship rings. Read on to learn more.
Why Customization is Important
While all commemorative rings are a kind gesture to recognize your team’s accomplishments, custom rings offer a personalized touch that elevates the gift. Custom championship rings give your team members a keepsake to enjoy and hand down for generations.
Personalization can extend to anything that team members might find special. Common customization options include team names, logos, player names, and nicknames. Or, the team managers and coaches might opt for special colorized stones that match team colors.
Popular Ring Designs
Before you can work through any further customization steps, consider researching current popular sports ring designs to get some inspiration for your ring’s design. Most designs you’ll find fall into two primary categories: new styles or classic styles.
New styles tend to skew ornate, featuring different intertwined details and larger, wider ring sizes. Certain features we offer, like wrap-around text and side personalization, are best suited for this type of ring. Other teams might also want textured backgrounds, perhaps with yardage (like you’d find on the side of the field).
If you prefer a more classic look, consider reviewing rings of past seasons and decades, evaluating the gem cut, type, and materials used to pull together your favorite classic entries. Rings of the past tended to feature fewer stones and preferred brass tones.
Once you get a frame of reference for your classic-style championship ring, you can bring everything to your ring designer and ask them to compile a classic and complimentary design. (Take a look at this ring gallery for examples.)
Choosing the Right Materials
Football Ring: Metals
One of the most important steps in the customization process involves choosing the right materials to represent your team’s unity and journey.
Some of the most popular materials to consider include gold lasium, silver lasium, and sterling silver. Here’s a quick summary of what you can expect with each metal:
- Gold Lasium: Our yellow lasium is incredibly durable and bright. Plated in 18k gold, it’s perfect for teams who want to invest a bit more after a stellar winning season.
- Silver Lasium: This metal is often noted to be the more affordable alloy on this list, maintaining the durability and stylish nature of sterling silver or gold lasium.
- Sterling Silver: This metal is incredibly durable and bright. Sterling silver keeps its winning “look” — no matter how often it’s worn.
Once you choose the right metal, you can choose the stones and the finish you’d like over the logo or ring imagery.
Football Ring: Stones
Signature Championship Rings offers five ring finish types to choose from, including:
- Textured Stone Resin: Textured stone resin is a take on our stone resin finish, which mimics the look of a laser-cut stone logo at no additional cost. The texture adds a unique dynamic to the ring, drawing the eye naturally to its turf-like appearance.
- Epoxy: This finish type is a classic. It lays smooth and is the perfect way to bring the colors used for the ring together on the ring’s front surface.
- Stone-Filled: If your team is looking for a little extra bling, consider our stone-filled logo finish. Here, jewelers insert stones in the logo’s space, giving the ring a brilliance that can’t be matched.
- Stone Resin: Our latest finish, stone resin, is best for those who want the smoothness of epoxy with greater line distinction. It allows the logo to truly shine through in the ring’s design.
- Cut Stone: Similar to stone resin, our cut stone finish is smooth, sleek, and has a slight beveled curve to its edges. This difference is the perfect subtle edge for teams who want an elevated textured look without the level of visual complexity that stone-filled and textured stone resin have.
Finding the Right Size and Shape
Before you place your order, it’s important to ensure that your team has been properly sized. Signature Championship Rings has made this process simple, offering printable ring-sizers and ring-sizer packets, which are available upon request. Either option can be used for both individual and team orders.
You can reference this helpful ring-sizing guide video if you need additional support during the sizing process.
Adding Team Symbols and Achievements
Once the ring is sized and initial customizations have been set, many teams opt to add their team logo or their team colors. Some might also add symbolic references to any special moments during the season or that reference the players themselves, such as scores or player numbers.
Picking a Good Ring Designer
A skilled ring designer is instrumental in making your championship ring design a reality, memorializing your team’s success permanently. That’s why you need to go with the best of the best.
The experts at Signature Championship Rings have been in the game for 20 years and counting, all with one singular goal in mind: see each student-athlete be able to access rings and memorabilia they can afford after their championship. We’ve had the privilege of bringing 10,000+ team visions to life so far through the creation of 800,000+ championship rings — and we can’t wait to continue the winning streak.
Staying Within Budget
There are plenty of avenues available to help you stay on budget when you work with Signature Championship Rings.
For example: We offer a free custom design and quote process to help you narrow down your design options and determine exactly what you want for your team’s rings. We also offer volume discounts and a competitive lifetime warranty, giving your team the assurance of shine that will last.
We also offer a simple three-step ordering process, which allows you to spend more time on the field and less time filling out ordering forms. Simply select three ring designs of your choice, fill out the interest form, and review the custom designs sent to your inbox in 48 hours or less.
Bring Your Design To Life with Signature Champion Rings
A championship ring is so much more than a statement piece. It represents a legacy and a lifetime of trying, failing and winning, unity, and success for every single member of your team.
Ready to design your team the memorabilia they deserve this season? Connect with Signature Championship Rings online or call us at 800-273-8124. We look forward to working with you.
