TIMELINE

Aug. 14, 1959: Milson Jones is born in Linstead, Jamaica.

1982: A six-foot, 210-pound standout and two-time all-American with the University of North Dakota, Jones enters the Canadian Football League with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 1984: Jones joins the Edmonton Eskimos.

Nov. 27, 1987: Edmonton defeats the Toronto Argonauts 38-36 in the 75th Grey Cup at BC Place Stadium on a last-second 49-yard field goal by Jerry Kauric. Milson Jones, in his fourth and final season with the Eskimos, wins the Dick Suderman trophy as the championship game’s Canadian MVP.

1988: Jones joins the Saskatchewan Roughriders, where he spends four of his most productive years, rushing for a career-high 730 yards before eclipsing the total by 35 more yards in 1990.

Nov. 26, 1989: The 77th Grey Cup sees the Roughriders beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43-40 in Toronto’s Skydome as Jones wins his second Grey Cup ring, both of which he ends up selling.

1993: Jones retires after 11 CFL seasons with 4,930 rushing yards along with 359 receptions for 3,873 more yards.

1996: Ottawa businessman Walter Pamic buys Jones’s 1987 Grey Cupringatan auction in the nation’s capital.

October 2005: Jones appears in a Winnipeg courtroom on a variety of criminal charges, pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, attempting to cash a stolen cheque and stealing meat from a store. He is given a criminal record along with a one-year suspended sentence and probation.

2016: Pamic tracks down Jones’s son, Devon, online, offering to give the ring back and arranges for a colleague to bring it to Edmonton.

March 29, 2018: Devon meets Pamic face-to-face for the first time during a visit to Edmonton.