After Jerry Kramer’s ring from Super Bowl I was stolen on a flight some 20 years ago, he figured he’d never get it back. But the president of an auction Web site where the ring has turned up says he’ll work to return it to the former Green Bay Packer.

Kramer, 70, was outraged when the ring he lost in the early 1980s showed up on the Web site for Chicago-based Mastro Auctions.

The ring’s greatest significance is that it was from the very first Super Bowl, he told the Green Bay Press-Gazette Friday in a telephone interview from his home in Boise, Idaho.

Kramer called Mastro, which had opened the bidding at $5,000, and the company promptly removed it from auction.

“It’s a fantastic piece,” said Doug Allen, the company’s president. “The bidding was at $20,000 when we withdrew it, and I’m sure it would’ve gotten crazy — but we wouldn’t let it get to that point.”

Mastro Auctions will return the ring to Kramer once it is authenticated, Allen said.

“It’s nice to know there are good people out there willing to do the right thing,” said Kramer, who starred at right guard for coach Vince Lombardi’s championship teams of the 1960s.

Posted: 04|23|06 at 11:20 am. Filed under: US News.