Former high school player reunites with his championship rings recently / myLot

Higel Harris in possession of his missing championship football rings.

Lake Charles, Louisiana

October 25, 2022 4:09pm CST

Even though I never played football in school other flag football, I know who a former high school player who lives in Mobile Alabama named Higel Harris had to deal with the loss of two of his championship rings that he won as part of the Mattie T. Blount high School teams in 1990 and 1992. Higel was riding aboard a float in Mobile Alabama during the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile in 2016 when he lost his championship football rings. Last week a Mobile resident named Jamie Moore who used a metal detector while was traveled to downtown Mobile when he found two rings that were missing on the ground. My best guess is that Jamie saw the initials of the former football player on the ring and most likely used the internet to find out who owned the high school rings. When Jamie came to the home of Higel last week, he gave Higel his championship rings back which made Higel a very happy young man since he thought that the football championship rings were lost forever. The championship rings meant a lot to Higel since playing a sport like football is one of the toughest sports to play.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

26 Oct 22

That’s so strange that the rings were lost in 2016 and only recently found. Surely they couldn’t have been found in the same place. I wonder where the were for six years.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (122325)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

26 Oct 22

Good question since the rings were probably buried in the ground after the wet weather pushed the rings from the street underground.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

27 Oct 22

@Deepizzaguy That must have been the reason they weren’t found years before.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (122325)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

27 Oct 22

@RubyHawk Most likely scenario since the report from UPI mentions a similar incident in West Virginia with a high school graduate who lost his ring in a similar fashion.

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Nocturnal Writer

@Nakitakona (59987)

• Philippines

30 Nov 22

What an honest finder keeper! I appreciate his attitude of returning the lost rings to the rightful owners.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (122325)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

30 Nov 22

I am in agreement with you that there are some people who think that how would they like it if an object they lost was never returned to them due to greed from the person who found the object.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (122325)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

1 Dec 22

@Nakitakona High school and college class rings are very expensive to buy in my homeland.

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@Nakitakona (59987)

• Philippines

1 Dec 22

@Deepizzaguy imagine that's a valuable things I think and they could cost high.