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Mike Cofer, an assistant football coach at Coronado High School, holds a Super Bowl XXIV game ball at his home in Henderson, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Cofer was an NFL kicker and played with the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl wins in 1989 and 1990. The rings are from XXIV, top, and XXIII.
By Tovin Lapan (contact) 
Friday, March 8, 2013 | 10:24 a.m.
Burglars broke down the front door at the home of former San Francisco 49ers kicker Mike Cofer and went straight for the gut, taking his two Super Bowl rings and a few other items.
Cofer had been watching his son pitch for Coronado High School before returning Thursday evening to his home in Henderson. There, he found his door shattered, according to his ex-wife, Lisa Cofer, who lives around the corner and was also at their son’s baseball game.
Lisa Cofer contacted the Sun, she said, to get the word out in case someone tries to sell the rings in the Las Vegas Valley or on sites such as Craigslist or eBay.
“Mike is just beside himself,” Lisa Cofer said. “The rings are simply irreplaceable.”
She said her husband contacted Henderson Police, who came and investigated, but details from the police department were not immediately available.
Cofer, an NFL kicker for eight seasons, including six with San Francisco, was on the 49ers when they won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1988 and 1989 seasons. He moved to Southern Nevada in 2001, and he is an assistant football coach at Coronado High School.
Besides the rings, the thieves took a coin collection and an Xbox game console and a few games, Lisa Cofer said.
“There was a diamond ring sitting next to the Super Bowl rings and they didn’t take it,” she said. “They knew exactly what they wanted.”
Sounds like an inside job where someone knew what was in the house and when the family wouldn't be home. Time to look at friends of the father, mother, and son, as well as anyone who was employed in the house hold in the last year or so.
Do that and I bet you'll find the person.
And his neighbors!
That's a shame. Never understood the concept of taking something that didn't belong to me.
Hope he at least gets the rings back. No legitimate individual, pawn shop, etc. would buy them.
ask OJ where they went.
They'll be featured in the next episode of Pawn Stars :)
Dumb criminals. Do they think they can pawn/sell these anywhere cuz "nobody would ever know it was stolen?" First time they post it for sale on ebay, amazon, craigslist, or take it to a pawn shop, the authorities will be notified. Idiots.
Sounds like the perfect insurance scam.
Gets a payout for the value of the rings. Keeps the rings and when someone asks, I though they were stolen... 'Yea they were, I had to have duplicates made, they were never recovered.' Of course they were never recovered, those rings are the actual rings.
good plot jimmyk. You gotta be an idiot to not keep those in a safe.
Hey, yo---wanna buy a Super Bowl ring that belonged to Mike Cofer? Bust the punks!
What idiot would leave those rings out and not locked a way?
This burglary comes to you compliments of the Las Vegas Sun for running this article http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jan... (complete with photos of the high priced items) and the Clark County Assessor for telling the burglars exactly where to find the items http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/depts/asses... through a name search. If you have never seen how many home burglaries there are in Las Vegas on a daily basis, you should look here http://www.crimemapping.com/ ". but it may make you sick to your stomach. Only Metro reports, not Henderson on NLV, but you get the idea. Change the date from Feb 1 -- Feb 28 and uncheck all crimes except burglary (black mask.)
Sounds like an insurance fraud case. The fact that they left the other diamond ring sit there is kinda weird.
Never, ever "show-off" your memorabilia. Not in Vegas..especially.
Were the super bowl rings insured ? hummm
Meanwhile, there are plenty of Henderson cops sitting by the side of the road, running radar and nothing else. All to keep us safe, of course.
mrx149... I thought the SAME thing, before that I bet hardly anyone knew he was here.
All thives when caught should have thier hands smashed or cut off, that'll curb the temptation to take something that doesn't belong to you.
oops ,,, thieves.
1 word-Insurance