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From two-time Grey Cup champion to making headlines for all the wrong reasons after becoming homeless on the streets of Winnipeg at one point, Milson Jones hardly has the squeakiest of clean legacies.

But thanks to the selfless effort of a complete stranger clear across the country, memories of the better times have literally been brought home for the Jones family.

Prominent Ottawa businessman Walter Pamic had been looking to reunite Jones with the 1987 Grey Cup ring the former Edmonton Eskimos fullback won on the way to being named Canadian MVP of that championship game.

Pamic bought the ring at Empire Auction in the nation’s capital in 1996, and mostly kept in tucked away at the back of a closet.

“I only wore it out to sporting events, usually, if I went to see a Redblacks or Rough Riders game,” said Pamic, who had no prior knowledge of the ring’s history or the name etched on it. “Nobody could understand why somebody would give up something so precious.”