Go Je'Rod!

To loosely follow up on the last post, Je'Rod Cherry plans to auction off his Super Bowl ring to raise money for hunger.

In the unofficial Big Game alumni salute, we have a runaway winner.

Je'Rod Cherry, the former Cal safety from Berkeley High who spent nine years in the NFL, is holding an online raffle. The prize: the Super Bowl ring he won as a member of the 2001 New England Patriots. The cost to you: $2 per ticket, minimum of five tickets.

The goal: end world hunger. All proceeds will go toward helping the charity Asia's Hope build an orphanage. Whatever is left will be spent, internationally and in the United States, on similar projects.

"The ring itself is the first one I won, it's the most precious one to me, it's the one I care most about," Cherry said by phone Wednesday from his home in Macedonia, Ohio. "It was definitely hard. The night I made the announcement, I was like, 'Wow, I can't believe I just did that.'

"That ring will do so much to give kids around our country and the world to give kids a chance."

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Cherry said he has raised $107,000 so far. The entry deadline is 6 a.m. Nov. 27 — Thanksgiving Day — with the drawing later that day. Buy tickets at www.celebritiesforcharity.org.