Jason Kelce lost track of his 2018 Super Bowl ring during a live event in Cincinnati April 11 and believes it may have been thrown away with the trash, writes Natasha Dye for People.

But the ring was not stolen, he emphasized.

The 36-year-old retired NFL star and his brother, Travis Kelce, hosted a live New Heights podcast event at the University of Cincinnati.

One game involved searching for Jason Kelce’s Super Bowl ring in a pool of Cincinnati-style chili. 

Neither Jason nor the event staff could find the ring after the event. The New Heights team even sifted through the chili the next day.

“We have still yet to find it,” Jason Kelce said. “All of this stuff has been thrown away, so I think we can safely assume that my Super Bowl ring is now in a landfill, someplace in the Cincinnati Tri-State area.”

On the April 24 New Heights episode Travis suggested a ring like that, “you don’t lose it. Somebody steals it.”

That led to a report on X saying Jason suggested the ring had been stolen.

“This is incorrect, and not what I was saying, I do not think it was stolen,” Jason responded to the report.

Read more about Jason Kelce’s missing Super Bowl ring in People.