![]() "It’s not all shiny right now, it’s just as it should be. Lydia Manley said she liked that it was a little tarnished, but still just as valuable. It was in his cluttered office at the law school that Treece returned the ring Wednesday. Since O’Quinn’s October death in a car crash, Treece has also been the executor of O’Quinn’s estate. O’Quinn himself had actually entrusted the precious red box and its contents to his friend, South Texas College of Law professor Gerald Treece. ![]() Manley did wind up back in jail on a cocaine charge a few years after relinquishing the ring to O’Quinn. I had a lot of faith in him,” Manley said from Miami. Manley, unsure of himself, gave the ring back to O’Quinn to keep until he felt worthy again. On the plane, O’Quinn surprised Manley with the ring the ballplayer had hocked and that O’Quinn found and redeemed. In 1999 O’Quinn and the Manleys flew in the lawyer’s jet to see Manley’s cousin Eric Dickerson inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was repeatedly arrested for crack cocaine possession and was imprisoned more than once. In 1991 he was banned from the league after failing drug tests. Manley spent 11 flamboyant and fabled years in the NFL, most with the Redskins. It’s been more than a decade since he’s held that diamond-encrusted ring celebrating his Washington Redskins’ defeat of the Miami Dolphins in January 1983. "I didn’t want to give up my Super Bowl ring to drug addiction,” said Dexter Manley, the former Oklahoma State defensive end whose life has been a roller coaster of gridiron highs and jailhouse lows. This week, while in Miami for Sunday’s Super Bowl, the man nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense” was both ecstatic and wistful when his wife, Lydia, called from his hometown of Houston to say she’d retrieved the iconic ring from the estate of the late lawyer John O’Quinn, Manley’s longtime friend with whom he’d entrusted the redeemed ring. ![]()
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