The Great Super Bowl Rings Heist

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s a heist story straight out of Hollywood, about a thief who would make Danny Ocean proud. Who is this criminal mastermind, who stole the New York Giants’ Super Bowl rings? Meet Sean Murphy: a die-hard Patriots fan, owner of a moving company, and a self-described master thief. He, like many Pats fans, watched in agony as the New York Giants pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history in 2008. A few months later, Murphy was researching local jewelers for a potential target when he came across E.A. Dion, a family-owned business…who also happened to be making the Giants’ Super Bowl rings. From there, a super-sized heist was put into motion. ESPN correspondent Sam Borden joins us to take a look back at how Murphy pulled off the steal...and how he got caught. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If the Patriots had won that game against the Giants, do you think your life turns out exactly the way it's turned out?
0:10.4	If it wasn't that one, it was going to be another one.
0:12.9	I know what the consequences are.
0:15.4	You know how I view this?
0:16.7	I view it as an occupational hazard.
0:19.8	They call us crime dogs.
0:21.2	I'm a crime dog.
0:29.7	That's our own Sam Borden, interviewing a man named Sean Murphy from prison.
0:36.7	Murphy is a Patriot Superfan from New England.
0:40.3	He also happens to be a master thief.
0:45.2	Today, the incredible story of how football, a multi-million dollar heist and jealousy all came together around a set of Super Bowl rings. I'm Pablo
0:59.5	Torre. It's Thursday, February 11th. This is ESPN Daily. Hey, Sam, thanks for joining me.
1:09.9	No problem, Pablo. Glad to be here.
1:12.4	Sam Borden is a global sports correspondent for ESPN and an international man of mystery.
1:19.3	So I bring you on here, Sam, today, because I am a sucker for Hollywood heist movies.
1:24.7	Whenever, like, Oceans 29 comes on TV, I will watch that film start to finish.
1:31.1	And this feature that you reported, it feels like a film that is squarely within that genre.
1:37.6	So I want to pull the curtain back here at the top for a minute. How did you come across the story?
1:43.2	And what was your reaction when you first
1:44.7	heard about it? You know, look, there are lots of stories that I've reported over my career that
1:50.1	have had, you know, some cinematic quality to them, at least in part. But this, I think, is probably
1:55.9	the only story that I've done where it literally felt like a movie from start to finish.
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