With nine days to go until the auction is complete, bids for Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl LI ring reached seven figures.
On Tuesday night a bidder, for now still anonymous, bid $1 million for the Kraft’s ring commemorating New England’s come-from-behind win over the Atlanta Falcons in Houston. To put that in perspective that’s more than half of his roster is guaranteed to make in 2020 according to Sportrac.com.
The auction is part of the All-In Challenge which is raising money for “kids, the elderly and frontline heroes” affected by the coronavirus.
Of the 70 auctions on the site, Kraft’s ring has the highest bid.
Of his six rings, Kraft chose Super Bowl LI because that was when his team rallied from down 28-3 to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Houston. Because the nation is struggling to defeat the coronavirus, Kraft thought the comeback ring would be the most appropriate one.
“We came back and we won. I thought about what’s going on at this time and I wanted to give something of extreme value in support of our health care workers,” he said on the video announcing the auction. “I thought it would be good to give this ring, because it showed how we came back. We’re the greatest country in the world with the greatest people who feel a sense of team and work together in the toughest of times.”
The starting bid was $75,000.
Kraft also said he’d provide vehicle transportation if the winner was in the New England area and he’d send his plane if they lived elsewhere in the United States.