Trooper finds OU championship ring that was stolen 17 years ago
A. Isaac Maybe it was luck, maybe it was just right place at the time, or maybe Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Jason McAlister is just that damn good. In one of the craziest stories you’ll ever read, McAlister found a missing Oklahoma championship ring on the finger of a truck driver he pulled over in the middle of the night. The ring was not stolen last week, or even last year, but rather 17 years ago from John Baresi, a defensive lineman on the 1973, 1974 Sooners championship squad.
A Big Eight championship ring was on the left-hand ring finger of the driver. It was in good shape, but something seemed out of place, McAlister said. The 39-year-old trooper said he didn’t think the driver looked like a former OU football player because he was smaller than most football players.
“It just didn’t seem right,” McAlister said. “He didn’t look like what I thought would have been a football player, and I have never seen a football player wearing a championship ring. Most keep them stored away.”
The truck driver admitted to McAlister he never played football at OU and claimed to have found the ring while cleaning an apartment in northwest Oklahoma City about a decade ago. He said he’d decided to keep it.
Unfortunately, Baresi died in 2009, however his wife happily accepted the lost ring from McAlister. Aside from that, is anyone else curious as to why the truck driver was wearing the ring? Was he trying to score free drinks at the bar while displaying it or something? Weak.
Thankfully, the guy’s a truck driver and not a criminal entrepreneur.
Stolen 1973 John Barresi OU football ring found by trooper [KJRH] via [Fark]
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