{"id":100177,"date":"2025-06-03T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/100177\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:02:26","slug":"georgia-tech-football-gets-mocked-into-oblivion-for-showing-off-2024-commemorative-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/100177\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Tech Football Gets Mocked Into Oblivion For Showing Off 2024 Commemorative Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Georgia Tech<\/a> Yellow Jackets finished the 2024 college football season with a mediocre 7-6 record, facing one of the nation\u2019s most demanding schedules but failing to capitalize on key opportunities.<\/p>\n

Despite an upset win over No. 10 Florida State<\/a> and a victory against Miami<\/a>, the team struggled with consistency, ending with a tough loss to Vanderbilt in the Birmingham Bowl.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The Birmingham Bowl. A bowl that people outside of Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt didn\u2019t even know existed.<\/p>\n

But if you think a barely .500 regular season punctuated by an eight overtime loss in their season finale and the bowl defeat one month later had the team down, think again.<\/p>\n

Nay, the team took to social media to show off some \u201csummer ice\u201d \u2013 aka championship-like rings celebrating their 2024 performance.<\/p>\n

7-6 championship rings. Participation trophies, if ever there were any.<\/p>\n

Fans Point and Laugh at Georgia Tech\u2019s New Rings<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not quite sure what would have possessed the Georgia Tech football team to show off rings they made to celebrate a mundane season, a fourth-place finish in the ACC, and a postseason loss.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

And it appears other fans couldn\u2019t quite figure it out either. Followers on X absolutely leveled the Yellow Jackets over the rings.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmbarrassing,\u201d one fan wrote<\/a>. \u201cI mean, this deserves mockery beyond any nerd mockery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others pointed out that one of the victories literally etched onto the ring \u2013 the Florida State win \u2013 was against a team that, yes, was ranked 10th at the time, but reality swiftly bit them in the behind and the Seminoles went on to finish 2-10 on the season.<\/p>\n

Should the other nine teams that beat FSU make rings, too?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can\u2019t be real,\u201d another football fan wrote<\/a>, adding a laughing while crying emoji.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

But alas, it is.<\/p>\n

Another chimed in<\/a>, \u201cThis gotta be the weakest stuff I\u2019ve seen in a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED: Nine Rings? Jordon Hudson Keeps Engagement Buzz Going With Some New Bling<\/a><\/p>\n

Participation Trophies Next?<\/p>\n

Somebody needs to tell me in the comments section \u2013 Is this actually a thing? I\u2019ve never seen a team hand out championship-style rings like this for an average season. Are teams beyond Georgia Tech similarly embarrassing themselves like this?<\/p>\n

This whole thing is reminiscent of Detroit Lions<\/a> defensive end Za\u2019Darius Smith, who was also on the receiving end of a fair bit of mockery last year after posting an image of an NFC North championship ring after his team spectacularly flamed out of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The Lions were favored to go deep into the playoffs after a dominant season, but they lost their divisional round game to the Washington Commanders<\/a>, 45-31.<\/p>\n

Smith, who was on vacation at the time \u2013 because they had lost in the playoffs \u2013 showed off his division ring.<\/p>\n

Championship rings should mean something. They shouldn\u2019t be handed out to any team that wants to celebrate a perceived accomplishment as opposed to a real one.<\/p>\n

Also Read:: Joe Flacco Makes His Feelings on Being a Mentor to Shedeur Sanders Very Clear<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets finished the 2024 college football season with a mediocre 7-6 record, facing one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18195,26054,26056,26053,113,6504,7,3023,562,216,49,48,26055,17,111,6896],"class_list":{"0":"post-100177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2024-college-football-season","9":"tag-birmingham-bowl","10":"tag-championship-ring","11":"tag-championship-rings","12":"tag-detroit-lions","13":"tag-florida-state","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-georgia-tech","16":"tag-joe-flacco","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-ncaa","19":"tag-ncaa-football","20":"tag-participation-trophies","21":"tag-shedeur-sanders","22":"tag-washington-commanders","23":"tag-yellow-jackets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114618390540529075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}