OT: Pac-12 Unveils Champ Trophy; Fans of Yonic Sculpture Rejoice
As was posted on the board below, the Big Ten removed Joe Paterno's name from the Big Ten championship trophy today.
In other league championship trophy news, the Pac-12 continued to be the Pac-12 and got all abstract and futuristic with their new trophy. Fortunately for fans of yonic symbols and sculpture, the artist took inspiration from the object that inspires men to race cars, build bridges, fight wars:
I wish I were an artist so I could make profound and deep statements about my sculpture when inside I know I just made the same thing a 15-year old boy would make if commissioned to design the trophy.
Tell me that football isn't suspiciously placed. Larry Scott even took marketing to the next level by branding the bean. Have you no shame, Larry?
November 14th, 2011 at 8:59 PM ^
hmm, that's a dumb trophy.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:04 PM ^
I can think of no more appropriate trophy for the Pac-12.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:17 PM ^
It breaks the norm. It has a fresh look. The ball looks like a giant clit
November 14th, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
they wash the football in between guys kissing it.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:09 PM ^
Can't wait for the inagural Pac-12 Championship Game, or the "Battle for the Silver Labia."
November 14th, 2011 at 9:27 PM ^
There have been some major wars fought over lesser ladybits.
Personally, I like the new Battle for I-75 trophy that replaced the old Peace Pipe.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:23 PM ^
Trophy
November 15th, 2011 at 12:51 AM ^
The football is placed strategically to help the youth of the Pacific coast (and the Great Basin and Eastern Colorado) find the clitoris.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:23 PM ^
I'm impressed they could suspend the football in mid-air.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:24 PM ^
...home of the spread.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:34 PM ^
If this was TWIS, you would probably win the internet. Well done.
November 15th, 2011 at 1:50 AM ^
Hahaha well done.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:26 PM ^
I don't know, paint it green and you get...
November 14th, 2011 at 9:26 PM ^
November 14th, 2011 at 9:28 PM ^
NEEDS MORE CORN
November 15th, 2011 at 1:26 PM ^
'MOAR'
Of the trophy, Henry Miller (lastly of Big Sur) would have been proud...& I don't think he would have been thinking football when looking at that.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^
November 14th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^
They can always get sloppy seconds next year.
November 15th, 2011 at 10:10 AM ^
Technically not "sloppy" if a Trojan is involved.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:26 PM ^
Also a pity that Oregon State is always so awful that it seems like forever until they might get a chance to win the trophy that is rightfully theirs.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:42 PM ^
Is that the Cougars can be in a similar position some day...
November 14th, 2011 at 10:34 PM ^
Anyone else think this bares resemblance to a piece of female genitalia?...
November 14th, 2011 at 10:55 PM ^
No, totally didn't get that idea from anything else in this thread. Say, do you have any opinions on the water tower in Ypsi? People make jokes about that too and I don't get it.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:38 PM ^
It reminds me of the Rose Bowl trophy that was used in 1998:
I don't know when, but at some point the Rose Bowl changed it's trophy to a much more boring one that's basically the Lombardi trophy with a circular base.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:53 PM ^
I had the chance to see it person before the 2007 Rose Bowl with USC and it's pretty cool looking. The spoked base was cool and the fact that it's the Rose Bowl trophy makes it better.
November 15th, 2011 at 9:34 AM ^
of poking out an eye or impaling someone.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:54 PM ^
Except the rose bowl trophy doesn't look like a huge clit. If they rearranged the Pac-12 trophy a bit I would like it, but as it is now it just looks odd.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:06 PM ^
What cheesy 1980s Sci-Fi movie did they steal this trophy from?
November 14th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
I dont know art, but I know what I like. Something about that speaks to me
And kudos on a perfectly subtle (for the intronet) OP
November 14th, 2011 at 11:45 PM ^
Here it is on GameDay last week in Palo Alto. It's not flashy but I ike it.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:49 PM ^
Yeah, no need for fancy stuff like vajazzling
November 15th, 2011 at 12:47 AM ^
when I look at this trophy I see 3 things and I think 3 things: Pac12, Vagina, and Football. Maybe I've used too many "That's what she said" jokes in my lifetime but I really can't help butdraw any other conclusions from this trophy. Like back when the Versus channel slogan was "Show me your V."
November 14th, 2011 at 11:53 PM ^
Listen, just because the artist was inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keefe while listening to Nirvana, it doesn't mean anything.
Sometimes, a trophy is just a trophy.
November 15th, 2011 at 7:19 AM ^
Although the designer first said that he got inspiration from the referee's signal of hands raised in the air when someone has scored a touchdown, he later said that he also might've gotten suggestion for the design when he recalled his honeymoon with his "trophy wife."
November 15th, 2011 at 8:00 AM ^
the shiniest carrot sticks I have ever seen.
Actually, the creative in me has no problem with it. But the B1G snob in me thinks it sucks West Coast style.
November 15th, 2011 at 9:32 AM ^
it probably looks better in real life, that render is horrible.
November 15th, 2011 at 10:44 AM ^
I would have expected that admitting to watching a show as awful as <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i> through the sixth season would be met with universal derision and mockery.
As for the trophy, I tell ya', it ain't half bad.
November 15th, 2011 at 10:56 AM ^
Maude Lebowski: Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Uh, is that what this is a picture of?
Maude Lebowski: In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
The Dude: Oh yeah?
November 15th, 2011 at 11:05 AM ^
remember when Ray's mom makes that "abstract" sculpture?
November 15th, 2011 at 11:49 AM ^