P !lessen hardware company FINE DOOR & CABINET IIARDWARE PLUMBING & BATH ACCESSORIES Business I Since 1910 11.111.Mrriv ; 45f:. 1 Sta ff pho tos by Ang ie Baan •- • t Douglas and Brian Schubot examine a ring. o tt Lion Fans _ The Schubots would like nothing better than to design another championship ring. A L DW E N ARCHETYPE'S vv ti, - ellhardware.com 36280 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI (248) 644-0100 • Fax: (248) 644-6056 Alan Hitsky Associate Editor 2605 Charlevoix Ave. (US 3 I ), Petoskey, MI (231) 348-8100 • Fax: (23 I) 348-8118 PILATES FOR MEN the total solution for strength, flexibility and power "equilibrium is a fun and comfortable place to build a better body" — David Sherman "pilates has given me the stamina and core strength to work 18 hour days" — Dr. Daniel Snower 1 . : 1 "Since starting pilates two years ogo my back pain is gone and I am playing golf" -- Scott Behrmann equilibrium mind-body fitness 6405 Teiegraph • at Maple & Telegraph ■ buildings G & H visit www.equilibriumstudio.corn to schedule your class online or call 248.723.6500 1291090 bscribe today onlineAlr phoi JNonline.us • 800.875.6621 56 September 13 • 2007 Fifty years ago in 1957, when the Lions last won a championship, some within the Lions' organization thought The Schubot family has a lot invest- rings would be redundant. So the ed in the Detroit Lions. players received solid gold Longines Just look in the vault of their Troy watches with the words "Detroit Lions" jewelry store. Doug, Sydelle and Brian on the dial in team color Honolulu Schubot will be happy to show you the blue letters. mold and wax impressions for rings Ten years later, in the 1960s, one that were made for the 1957 National of the 1957 alumni decided that he Football League champions. wanted his teammates to have a ring, And if you look in the stands near just like the 1952 and 1953 teams. The the 50-yard line at most Detroit Josten company had designed the 1957 Lions home games, you can see the ring. Jules Schubot, a representative for Josten, found that the molds and impressions had been destroyed. So Schubot came up with his own design, based on the '52 and '53 models. The rings, Doug Schubot believes, probably cost $700 to $800 apiece. Wax molds of a football and the 1.957 champi- Today, the National Football onship ring, alongside a current ring League takes responsibility for the rings for the Super Bowl winners. But the Schubots con- Schubots, their friends and clients tinue to design tie bars and cuff links enjoying 117 season tickets purchased to commemorate the winners and they by the Schubot family. make Lions' watches and cuff links for While Doug's father, Jules R. the Ford family. Schubot, had the family business in Brian Schubot would love to create downtown Detroit's Metropolitan some designs for a winning Lions' Building from 1940-1975, Doug's uncle team, but was concerned by their poor Maurie served as the Lions' box office performance during the exhibition treasurer (1951-1975). When the Lions season. won the NFL's "World Championship" "Of course, two years ago," he said, in both 1952 and 1953, Jules was asked "nobody would have predicted that the by the William Clay Ford family, the Tigers would be in the World Series Lions' owners, to design rings for the last year, either." players.