Talib, Miller join Broncos to receive glitzy SB rings

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  Jeff LegwoldESPN Staff Writer
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  • Covered Broncos for nine years for Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News
  • Previously covered Steelers, Bills and Titans
  • Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame Board
    of Selectors since 1999

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Finally Sunday night the locked boxes were opened and the Denver Broncos got to see the prizes inside.

With a pad-locked box, each with a Super Bowl 50 logo on the top, on a table for each Broncos player, coach, personnel staff and football support staff member, the Broncos received their Super Bowl rings in a private team ceremony at the downtown stadium.

Each diamond-encrusted ring -- 212 diamonds in all (5.05 total carats) has the number "50'' in the middle with "World" across the top of the face of the ring and "Champions'' across the bottom to go with three Lombardi trophies for the franchise's three Super Bowl wins and a Broncos logo in the middle.

It's says "this one's for Pat'' in honor of owner Pat Bowlen on one side to go with each recipient's name on the other. Several former players, including Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe as well as Ring of Fame members Rod Smith and Terrell Davis, attended the event.

Now retired tackle Tyler Polumbus tweeted a photo of Sharpe passing "a collection plate'' so the team could sign linebacker Von Miller. Miller and his representatives turned down a six-year $114.5 million offer from the Broncos because the two sides have not been able to come to an agreement over the guaranteed money in the contract.

It has become a somewhat contentious negotiations as the two sides have stepped away from the bargaining table at the moment. But Miller attended Sunday night's ceremony -- he posted a photo of himself with the new ring on social media - as he attended the team's trip to the White House last Monday.

Also in attendance was defensive back Aqib Talib, who was recently shot in the right leg.

But it was a festive night to honor the team for its 24-10 win over the Carolina Panthers this past February as former players also attended the event including Peyton Manning.

Smith passed out keys so all of the players and coaches could unlock the pad-locked boxes when the time arrive and Davis spoke to the gathering.

"It's going to be fun,'' Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said of the celebration this past Thursday, the last day of the team's mandatory minicamp. "Last week was really cool and this will be special.''

The Broncos will return to the field this week, for two days, to close out their final set of OTAs. Then the players will not be back, as a group, to the Broncos facility until they report for training camp on July 27.

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Talib, Miller join Broncos to receive glitzy SB rings