WTF: The Iron D revealed, Michigan-MSU hockey trophy
We were right when we were laughing at the idea of this stupid thing when it was announced a week ago.
Michigan will play sparty for this........thing............every time they play in the annual game in Detroit.
For those who are wondering, the "trophy" is the whole beast. The anvil IS the trophy base.
The third party design team posted it on their Instagram.
WHY?
January 15th, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^
Another stupid trophy is "The Rivalry Trophy". Very creative name, in addition to it being a stolen item from the local Joe's Crab Shack.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:49 PM ^
I disagree. That's how these things should come to be.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^
Nothing is worse than that made up rivalry UCONN made up against UCF.
The Conflict?
January 15th, 2016 at 10:47 PM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 10:49 PM ^
See, that thing is organic in a sense because it's essentially a trophy mocking all of the shitty trophies out there.
January 16th, 2016 at 10:29 AM ^
The broken chair trophy emblemizes everything that is great about college sports. A joke that was started by fans and the student who wears the team mascot costume turns into an annual tradition. You can't make that kind of stuff up. When contrived corporate sponsors try to manufacture tradition it always ends up feeling hollow, just like this trophy will. The broken chair trophy is awesome because it is a meta trophy.
In college hockey trophies are awarded for tournament victories. Single game trophies have never been contested, as they are in football. Olympia Entertainment is trying to invent something that shouldn't exist. I hope this trophy is soon forgotten.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:47 PM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
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January 15th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^
Agree 100%, in all seriousness...it's far too busy.
Why are there hammers and that stupid D, backwards D, C, logo?
If you want an anvil, okay...just put an huge old english D on it and call it a day.
WTF are those dinky (yes dinky) hammers going to do with that big ass hunk of iron?
January 16th, 2016 at 1:49 AM ^
cause its not the trophy, just something on the internet promoting the act of making atrophy.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:49 PM ^
Damned infernal MoGoSoftware made double post.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:53 PM ^
Contriving a new trophy for an old rivalry is just dumb- it's a meaningless hunk of junk. Brown Jug? Yes. *That's* a trophy.
A chemically-rusted D? Seriously, they should have skipped the D and used WTF instead.
Anyone else remember the ancient POS Zamboni Moo U used to clean the ice at Munn back in the early 80s? It looked like something Fred Flintstone should have been driving. Now*that* would be a good trophy for this rivalry. Winner gets to drive it home.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:57 PM ^
The Stanley cup wasn't stolen from a Blackhawks garage, you know. It was chosen to be a trophy. That's okay.
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January 15th, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
You have so very perspicaciously captured the essence of my post with your summary: "So nothing new can POSSIBLY be good."
Top notch work.
Unfortunately, it is not remotely close to what I said or my point: For this rivalry, this is a dumb, contrived trophy. Artificially made to look old and of a letter that has NOTHING to do with either team. It's not the age of it, but that it's entirely meaningless to either team.
And I thought all that when I assumed it was for winning the season series, not just one game.
Lord Stanley's Cup was purchased in 1892 and first awarded to a hockey team in 1893 after two hockey-playing brothers convinced their father, Lord Stanley, to buy a silver rose bowl to be awarded to Canada's top amateur team. But by all means, let's do compare a fake-rusted D to a 124 year old trophy. It makes complete sense as they are practically the same. Next we'll talk about how a Gatorade bottle is the same as the Little Brown Jug.
January 16th, 2016 at 12:19 AM ^
The Stanley Cup is now the greatest trophy in sports but let's not pretend it has alway been a great trophy. It was a new trophy once and it meant so much to the players that they punted it into the Ottawa's Rideau Canal for fun and a few years later the cup was left at a photographer's house and the photographer's mother turned it into a flower pot for a few months. That said, I hate the Iron D trophy.
January 16th, 2016 at 1:03 AM ^
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January 16th, 2016 at 1:25 AM ^
My point is I have no idea what this thing will mean in 100+ years and neither do you. Do you really think in 1909 the people gave a shit about water jug?
January 16th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^
Yes, actually I do.
But that's beside the point, which is that the jug had a connection to the annual game between Minnesota and Michigan: Michigan took it there out of distrust, left it accidentally, and when they asked for it back were told "no, you have to come win it back."
This new trophy has no connection to either team and is made worse by being made to look older than it actually is with the chemically-induced rust.
January 16th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^
http://mvictors.com/the-letter-myth/ http://mvictors.com/little-brown-jug-lore-ii-spinning-myths/
January 15th, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 10:57 PM ^
I mean, it looks like the head of a penis so it has that going for it.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:42 PM ^
Quite. Would be a perfect match for the CFP trophy :)
Put them in a case together and they'll make lots of little trophies.
January 16th, 2016 at 3:45 AM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
Win the game, leave the "trophy."
January 15th, 2016 at 11:57 PM ^
"Design Firm" wasn't a huge red flag here?
Who the fuck approves this shit in the first place?
This idea, and the person who thought it up should have both died in committee.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:11 PM ^
know the author just from reading the thread title.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:23 PM ^
January 15th, 2016 at 11:31 PM ^
Yes. See my post earlier in the thread. I'm almost positive that photo shows the "Iron D" without it attached to the actual base of the trophy.
January 15th, 2016 at 11:26 PM ^
"The Iron D weighs 1,249 lbs...
...except when you lift it."
January 15th, 2016 at 11:47 PM ^
Or maybe Snyder has spun up a new industry in Flint, making trophies out of what used to be the city's drinking water pipes.
January 16th, 2016 at 12:10 AM ^
I beleive it's an actual casting of the mighty right arm of Belvedere Gratiot, the city's first (and most famous) beaver noodler.
They should have just used that.
January 16th, 2016 at 12:33 AM ^
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January 16th, 2016 at 12:41 AM ^
Winner just leaves the damn D in Detroit. Loser can figure out how to lug it home.
January 16th, 2016 at 12:51 AM ^
The D stands for downvote. Nothing personal.
January 16th, 2016 at 1:05 AM ^
So uh, this isn't the trophy, but we can continue to freak out because it is on the internet.
January 16th, 2016 at 3:46 AM ^
Has anybody checked the Sparty boards to see if they're talking about how awesome it is?
January 16th, 2016 at 8:42 AM ^
It could just be me, but a trophy could very well lose a bit of its luster if - perhaps due to the anvil portion - it weighs about 250 pounds (guessing 4 pound hammer, but I could be wrong), takes 4-5 people to carry from place to place and has to be put on a customized stand next to the trophy case so as not to put excessive strain on the main display. Worse, imagine losing it the next year and repeating the process of transporting it to another location.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^
January 16th, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^
I hope this thing is soon relegated to the dust bin of history. Olympia Entertainment should not be in the business of trying to manufacture college sporting tradition.