OT: Goldy the Gopher (and FauxPelini) create a Minnesota–Nebraska Trophy.
A week or so ago, it was announced that in the name of newly forged (read: forced) rivalries, it was announced that Wisconsin and Nebraska would compete for the woefully generic "Freedom Trophy".
This anouncement was met with the appropriate disdain from the fan bases and the college football community.
Thankfully, we have been saved from two teams competing for the most-half-assed trophies ever, due to the levity of Goldy the Gopher and the beloved and mysterious FauxPelini.
The background:
Hey @FauxPelini, how about a friendly wager for this weekend's game? Team that gets the most points gets a conference win? Seem fair?
— Goldy Gopher (@GoldytheGopher) November 20, 2014
@GoldytheGopher OK how about if we win you give me $5, if you win I get to smash a wooden chair over your back
— Fake Bo Pelini (@FauxPelini) November 20, 2014
.@FauxPelini just as long as we can turn that $5 or bits of broken chair into a trophy for next year's game
— Goldy Gopher (@GoldytheGopher) November 20, 2014
@GoldytheGopher most Big Ten trophies cost less than $5 to make so sure
— Fake Bo Pelini (@FauxPelini) November 20, 2014
Could someone kindly design the $5-Bits-of-Broken-Chair-Trophy & maybe throw in a folklore character owner @FauxPelini and I? (@RedditCFB)
— Goldy Gopher (@GoldytheGopher) November 20, 2014
Thankfully, because this is the internet, there is always someone who can do this kind of thing, and has the free time to do it. So a user on Reddit's college football board (/r/CFB), made a glorious digital mock up of what the proposed trophy should look like:
Goldy then followed this up by coming through with it and producing his own (non-digital) edition of the trophy...
Detailed looks at the #BitsOfWoodenChairTrophy with @FauxPelini. Complete with 2 $5 bills #IsThisAnApprovedCarryOn pic.twitter.com/YdqpcWIWNR
— Goldy Gopher (@GoldytheGopher) November 21, 2014
Complete with TWO(!!!) $5 bills
And it's a trophy I think we all can get behind, and one that will be cherished for generations to come.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^
That's honestly one of the nicer B1G "rivalry" game trophies I've ever seen...
November 21st, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 2:40 PM ^
B1G TEEEHHHHNNNN
November 21st, 2014 at 2:43 PM ^
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November 21st, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
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November 21st, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
I am so excisted to see what Rutgers and Purdue come up with! I presume we have to wait until 2018 for them to play, but, the anticipation will just make the unveiling of that trophy even better....
November 21st, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
That HONESTLY would be a better trophy than the Freedom Trophy. Not joking at all.
I kind of want a replica of it.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
That HONESTLY would be a better trophy than the Freedom Trophy. Not joking at all.
I kind of want a replica of it.
EDIT: Trophy is so nice, I asked for it twice.
November 21st, 2014 at 3:42 PM ^
what the hell with the freedom trophy? Why is there a squished up flag on top? Winner gets freedom? Everyone is free after the game? That is the strangest thing I have seen in a long time. And I was in District Court yesterday.
Make the broken chair happen, Goldy.
November 21st, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
I think I'm in love with you Mabel...
you are so witty...
and the pictured girl looks like she could get down with an ewok..
though I imagine you are a mid thirties man barely living life while wallowing through a work driven existence...
that just turns me on more.
creepiest mgoblog post yet?
love,
jdon
November 21st, 2014 at 6:13 PM ^
Just replying to prevent future editing when jdon rethinks his reply. (Although this, sadly, may not even make it to the Creepy MGoBlog Post Hall of Fame.)
You're all welcome!
November 22nd, 2014 at 7:23 AM ^
I'm only replying, 13 hours later, because I'm still curious as to what Mabel will post in response to jdon. But yeah, not creepy enough, IMO, for the 'Creepy MGoBlog Post HOF'.
November 22nd, 2014 at 8:28 AM ^
November 22nd, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
+1 as that is what a man would say. Well played!
love,
jdon
ps. I made a monumental error in forgetting that I no longer have the ewok icon... I should have said anarchist snoopy.
November 22nd, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
Nice! That's how trophies are supposed to be created. Out of some bizzare event or story. Not just made for the hell of it.
November 21st, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
British viceroys are always welcome to create trophies just for the hell of it.
November 21st, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
November 21st, 2014 at 2:58 PM ^
We are truly living in the future
November 21st, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
Both SB Nation sites have articles on the trophy. Polls at the bottom of each article show that both fan bases want this trophy to actually be used with votes of around 92% yes to 8% no.
I couldn't agree more. In 100 years the story of the bet between a twitter meme and a gopher mascot will be an amazing tale.
November 21st, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
That would actually really be a great idea for a trophy. Rivalry trophies are supposed to non-generic, Keg of Nails? yep. Old Brass Spittoon? you betcha. The Paddlewheel? damn right. Freedom? nope.
Long live the Bits of Broken Chair
November 21st, 2014 at 8:13 PM ^
Yeah but they should also have stories behind them, which the Old Brass Spittoon most certainly does not. Made up for the hell of it, just like the rest of MSU's football "tradition".
November 21st, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
I just really love the internet. Other times not...this time...yes.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^
a slow day in offices everywhere today...?
November 21st, 2014 at 4:10 PM ^
run with this. It has a chance of having legs much longer than the freedom trophy. Imagine how dodgy it will look in 50 years - perfect.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^
"It has a chance of having legs much longer than the freedom trophy."
Well yeah...it's a chair. The freedom trophy doesn't have any legs.
November 21st, 2014 at 5:02 PM ^
But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
November 21st, 2014 at 4:33 PM ^
This is wonderful.
November 21st, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
If this is made it needs to rotate like that image.
November 21st, 2014 at 7:08 PM ^
I think someone at CornNation nailed it on the future of this otherwise most glorious trophy:
We could even have a miniature trophy sent to Delany for something to stew over at his desk. No doubt he will find some sort of licensing violations with the conference brand, steal the trophy and have Pizza Ranch slap their logo on it.
November 23rd, 2014 at 3:12 AM ^
Once the Nebraska AD fires the real Pelini for the unpardonable sin of only winning 9 games a year. (and some people think Michigan fans are entitled and delusional)