Nebraska Trophy Games

The Maize Trophy?

Call me a slappy, but I actually like trophy games. I mean, I get a little extra jacked up for the Minnesota game b/c of the brown jug.  I think its cool, especially when it involves a little piece of sports history.  Its makes kind of a mini-rivalry and gives more meaning to the game. Little things like that are what makes college football fun outside of the actual football.  I think it would be fun to have a trophy game with Nebraska.

The "Shut your f*cking mouth, Scott Frost" Trophy.

I'll pass.  The conference already has enough lame trophies.  And I'm including the Paul Bunyan one with Sparty on that list.  The worst conference trophy game by far?  That Illibuck turtle thing that OSU and Illlinois play for. 

The little brown jug is the only real trophy that has any meaning to it because it has a great history behind it and it was part of an actual game. 

I believe the Paul Bunyan trophy was set up by Michigan's governor at the time.  I don't think there is any set comittee on what can be a trophy game or not though.

wouldn't the Land Grant Trophy be a three way thing?  (Or maybe more)

I would think that Nebraska-Iowa would be a natural for some corn growing related trophy. I know, I know it would be a pretty corny trophy but whats a farmer to do.

a game with Iowa for a John Deere tractor, or the city of Carter Lake, Iowa, which actually sits in NE.

Mythical game: "And Stanzi is now parading around Nebraska's historic Memorial Stadium with all his Hawkeye's in tow.. literally."

The Jug adds a unique historical quality to the UM-UM game, makes it worth watching above and beyond the fact that Michigan is playing a football game, and just enough integral value to make losing it taste the pain of life /emo

He suggested taking the Land-Grant game away from MSU (which they probably wouldn't care about..)

This doesn't make much sense given that MSU and PSU are the two oldest land-grant universities, which is why that trophy was created in the first place.

have a certain quaintness to them (Jug) or sometimes cleverness (Floyd).  They are remnants of a different era in college ball.  To manufacture a new, contrived trophy just to have one makes no sense.  If one were to somehow crop up, that would be fine.  But enough with the "everyone needs a mascot, everyone needs a trophy" thinking.

Theres alot of talk around Omaha about people really wanting to play Wisconsin year in and out. they really want to play for a trophy called the big red paint can.

new trophies unless they are organically derived.  That is why the Brown Jug is such an awesome trophy, IMO.

They can play for the Double Helix Trophy, named because both teams got trashed by not only the local and national press, but even many of their own "fans" for injecting new DNA into their coaching trees.

Trophy games are more worthy where there is a definitive storyline behind it.  The Little Brown Jug is rich with tradition and meaning for Michigan/Minn.  To invent a trophy for the M/Neb game is hokey.  Aside from the LBJ game, our biggest rivalry games, ND and tOSU, we do not play for a trophy.  As for the MSU game, most M/MSU fans will say we play for bragging rights in the state and not so much for the trophy.