OT: Wisconsin-Nebraska create a trophy

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

EDIT: better look

Wisconsin and Nebraska announced the creation of a "rivalry" trophy today. 

I had to look at this for a moment to realize what it was. Pretty dumb, trophies for these manufactured rivalries are.

Here were 20 rejected names for this trophy (/s)

  1. The Freedom Cup
  2. The Freedom Treasure
  3. The Freedom Door Prize
  4. The Freedom's Just Another Word for 'Nothing Left to Lose' Trophy
  5. Jim Delany's Hot 'N Zesty Freedom BBQ Sauce
  6. The Freedom '90 (I Won't Let You Down) Cup
  7. Frito-Lay Bag O' Freedom Fun Twists (King Size)
  8. Free Wi-fi
  9. Several Cans of Dr. Pepper
  10. The Justice Trophy
  11. The Liberty Trophy
  12. The Statue of Liberty
  13. Marcus Liberty
  14. FarmersOnly.com Bucket of Corn Meal
  15. The Big Ten West Division Participation Medal
  16. The Easiest Hardest Divisional Game in College Football Championship Banner
  17. This Shovel
  18. Gary
  19. The Don't Worry the Loser Still Gets to Play Iowa Cup
  20. [The Freedom Trophy] (placeholder until an actual name is chosen)

More examples of trophies for manufactured rivalries include the likes of the "Heros Trophy" (Iowa vs Nebraska)

The Governor's Victory Bell (created for PSU-Minnesota, which Minnesota broke last year)

And the ugliest and most WTF-causing creations in the history of trophies: the Land Grant Trophy featuring MSU and PSU

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goblue16

November 11th, 2014 at 12:24 AM ^

da fuck? why not just give every big ten game a trophy? didnt realize minnesota broke the trophy. Minnesota is actually one trophy away from getting them all in the same season

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LSAClassOf2000

November 11th, 2014 at 6:45 AM ^

They really should have called it something else on that list - I'd go with "Several Cans Of Dr. Pepper". I mean, at least the winner can - in some states - turn around and redeem them for some cash, or in any state, put them in the recycling bin and put that bin on the curb on garbage day. At least you could get some value out of it then, monetary or environmental. 

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Ali G Bomaye

November 11th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^

I can't claim credit for the idea, but since the two teams have essentially identical uniforms, I like the idea that the winner of the game the previous year gets to wear "home" uniforms for the next year's game no matter where it is.

Either that or they should go with a plain-looking red-and-white striped trophy.

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