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Cowboys Icon Irvin Pleads For Help After Robbery

“I have to come out of this depression,'' Irvin says of being robbed by a "fan.''

Mike Fisher

FRISCO - Michael Irvin was trying to be nice, pausing in a hotel lobby to interact with some fans. As his reward? the iconic Dallas Cowboys wide receiver and Hall-of-Famer, upon reaching to retrieve the bag he'd set down on the floor, realized that one of those "fans'' had stolen a piece of his luggage.

“I have to come out of this depression. So I am sharing with ALL,” Irvin wrote on Twitter.“This is my necklace that was in my bag. I designed it as a first-down chain, holding an all diamond football, which is holding an all-diamond cross.”

And, Irvin added, there is further significance.

“On each end of the cross are diamonds I acquired at the birth of my children Myesha, Chelsea, Michael and Elijah,'' he said. "It was a piece I built over my life that represents. Faith, Family and Football and my own sentimental way of praying to GOD please always protect my babies. 

"I am so hurt [it’s] gone.”

Irvin, 55, says the special family jewelry item was stolen from him while he was at a hotel in Miami. Irvin says he was robbed of the item when he put his baggage down while at the hotel in order to interact with some fans.

Irvin is a victim of his own generosity here, which makes this all the more unfortunate. The all-time great receiver is almost always buoyant and cooperative when it comes to fans. But now? Irvin is offering a reward to anyone with information on what happened. ... as he now needs to locate that "fan'' who robbed him.

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Of course, it is not surprising that while he's still in search of his property, he returned to being buoyant by posting the above video.

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MIKE FISHER

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983 and the Dallas Cowboys since 1990, is the author of two best-selling books on the Cowboys.

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