Thread of stupid college football trophy game trophies
Come one, come all! The person to find the dumbest/most stupid looking/lamest/strange college football trophy wins the internets.
My vote- the Land Grant Trophy. Part of the fictional rivalry between penn state and sparty. This thing is one big clusterfuck of awful.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:22 PM ^
What do you mean? They are a REAL Notre Dame rival though!
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:48 PM ^
Good God. These schools should be embarrassed to be playing for such trophies.
The Little Brown Jug has a history that's epic, not only for the reason it was bought but because it was part of an actual Michigan/Minnesota game 110 years ago.
And so began the rest of the college football world inventing trophies that really have nothing to do with their history. You grab the first animal, appliance or fairy tale character that comes to mind, put it on top of a plaque, and then tell two random schools to play for it every years.
ETA: Never knew Notre Dame and Stanford played for a punch bowl.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
Yeah, most of these trophys are just made up so that other schools can rip off the Little Brown Jug mystique. They accomplish nothing.
If I'm a player, I would feel foolish parading some of these around just because I'm supposed to.
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:56 PM ^
I don't watch the CFL let alone CIS football but I do think this one deserves mention. I present to you the PANDA GAME! A cross-town rivalry game, between the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens, that surely causes panda-monium when played.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/touch/story.html?id=8765615
This game will be played on Saturday for the first time in 15 years as Carleton had shut-down its football program following the 1998 season.
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^
Crab Bowl trophy for the Maryland vs. Navy game. It's a bowl, with crab in it, that was created a few years ago for two teams that haven't really played each other since the 60's. It's a stupid trophy for a pretty much non existent "rivalry."
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
This one made me chuckle. And it was from the Bleacher Report-
It's called the CMU/WMU Rivalry Trophy
This creatively-named trophy is another new one to the landscape of college football. This trophy, curiously enough, is awarded to the winner of the Central Michigan-Western Michigan football game each year. Imagine that.
The trophy was introduced in 2008 for a reason that remains a mystery. The two teams have been playing each other almost yearly since 1907. So why not introduce a trophy after 100 years?
On top of this rather plain looking trophy is a cannon, which is supposedly there to represent the cannons at both CMU and WMU that are fired after every score.
A bland trophy added to a heated in-state rivalry after a century had already gone by? What's the point?
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:05 PM ^
Louisville-Cincinnati...The keg of nails? Dumb.
or the victory barrel between NC State and ECU.
You can't put your names on a wooden barrel and call it a rivalry.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:50 PM ^
I'm struggling to understand what is dumb about a KEG OF NAILS.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:07 PM ^
is it the off season again?
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^
Is it that time of the month, again?
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:05 PM ^
what time of the month would that be?
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^
I gather it has something to do that fictitious/invisible bitch/made up excuse known as Aunt Flow. She is a bitch and causes anyone who comes in contact to become an irritable bitch. It may sound horrible but it's even worse when this "visit" is postponed or cancelled
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:53 PM ^
I was going for snark but your answer was too good lol
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^
Sometimes you just feel like taking it beyond the original snarky comment...
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
LSU-Tulane, the Battle of the Rag. The rivalry goes back to 1893. They've been fighting over the rag since 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_the_Rag
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:18 PM ^
As of 2009, Illinois and Northwestern play for a hat:
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
They play Minnesota for Floyd of Rosedale (which was a live pig at first) and Wisconsin for the Heartland Trophy. Minnesota and Wisconsin battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:32 PM ^
I didn't realize he was ever real...Also, he's a good-sized pig as trophy pigs go.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^
Then you haven't ever watched one of these games. Hard to not hear the announcers talk about that
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
Why would anyone want to watch Iowa and Wisconsin play?
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:49 PM ^
Floyd of Rosedale is for the Iowa-Minnesota winner. (Though I guess your point stands.)
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
Because college football is fun.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:37 PM ^
Actually a neat "behind the scenes" history to that: racism. Minnesota had a star back in the 30s named Ozzie Simmons who happened to be black. The Iowa team took exception to that and injured/targeted him. The next year the governors got to smacktalking and thus the bet was a prize Minnesota pig.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
I looked it up, and I believe that this is now my favorite non Brown Jug trophy. Love the history, especially as it was an era when Minnesota was actually good.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
I live in the Twin Cities and know quite a few people who have gone to those respective schools. They take Trolling very seriously.
Another god awful trophy from around this area is the War on I 94...Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Wisconsin-Stout started playing in 1917, but the trophy was introduced 2 years ago. Who doesn't get pumped up playing for a wooden interstate sign?
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:49 PM ^
I don't think any one dude in that pic could be any happier!
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
I would sacrifice my life to win that trophy. That has to be a major recruiting tool.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:02 PM ^
Any trophy established before 1970 (or choose your preferred year) is a winner, I don't care what it looks like. Anything established since them is merely an attempt to recreate the tradition of older trophies.
In any event, I'll throw in LSU-Arkansas as the worst:
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:06 PM ^
the venerable trophy for the winner of the Indiana/Purdue game? It could have just as easily have been called the Old Oak Pail.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:11 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:24 PM ^
Has a bigger crowd than most these rivalries.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:18 PM ^
Nothing to contribute, but this thread is awesome. Sombody should do a poll for the board to vote for worst trophy, but it's impossible to choose.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^
but Case and Wooster play for a stringer of golden fish:
The winner each year gets a new fish on its end of the stringer--you get a pike or bass for a blowout, a bluegill or perch for a close win.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
I went to Case, and while I did know there was a FB team, I had NO IDEA that there was a rivalry with anyone. If anyone I would have guessed Carnegie Mellon or RPI, just based on out geeking each other.
October 3rd, 2013 at 8:50 AM ^
is Carnegie. But I don't thnk there's a trophy.
The stringer was started by two brothers, both econ professors, one at Case and the other at Wooster.
http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/baird_brothers_trophy
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:07 PM ^
that fish stringer is awesome.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
Now THAT is awesome. I want to watch them play* to see the team captain parade around his catch o' the day.
*(that is, watch the last 30 seconds of the game.)
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^
This is the only trophy Eastern has won in the last 30 years.
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
Here, take this 20 lb block of wood, with a mitten shaped jagged piece of glass on top sticking up like, hello! Now celebrate and jump around...
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:20 PM ^
Best trophy after the Brown Jug in my opinion is the Platypus Trophy. Because it is of a frickin' platypus.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
The Territorial Cup between Arizona and ASU is hands-down the stupidest trophy. Not because the trophy itself is all that stupid, but because the schools trumpet it as "the oldest rivalry trophy in college sports." The cup was awarded to ASU (by God knows who) for going undefeated in the state (then territory) of Arizona in 1899, and then was promptly lost until 1980 when someone dug it up somewhere and stashed it in the university archives. In 2001 ASU decided to make it a rivalry trophy between them and UA. So it's the oldest object being used as a trophy. Lame, since the history of the Brown Jug runs a hell of a lot deeper.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
The best are the ones that didn't begin as trophies, but were just random stuff that teams decided to play for. Any trophy that actually began its life as a trophy is not the same.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
All of this shows that the Little Brown Jug is so cool that everyone wants a piece of it, even if they have to just make shit up.
We have nice things.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
BYU, Utah, and Utah State battle for a boot.
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:41 PM ^
It looks like something made in the tool department at Home Depot... I'm going to paint all if my screwdrivers gold now!
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:07 PM ^
that neither school can find? Stumbled on this article for that heated Wyoming-Hawaii rivalry trophy, the Paniolo Trophy. Due to scheduling in the MWC, they have one more season to find it or re-create it from pictures.