CONCORD, N.C. -- Rowdy Harrell has more rings than Liberace, enough to cover all of his fingers, both thumbs and a significant portion of his skin.
"I can't wear them all at once, so I actually have all of them tattooed under here," he said, thumping the very large chest beneath his black Hendrick Motorsports sweatshirt.
As for the actual rings? "They're in a safe," he said.
There are 10 in all, eight earned on college football fields from Tuscaloosa to Pasadena, bookended by an Alabama state championship ring from Hale County High and another much larger piece inscribed with "2014 Daytona 500 champions.