$5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy makes an official appearance!

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The best trophies came about by way of accident, theft, violence, or controversy. This one should be filed under accident...
 

$5BBOC Trophy is the best, the way it came to be is now legend, I say we amp it up further. Let's make it a traveling trophy for both Football and Basketball games -- what other trophy can claim that...
 

RodentRampage said:
like it or not, the chair is popular.

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Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night? I can virtually guarantee you that if Nebraska beats us this year, they'll be flying home without this contrived, phony piece of junk. But I doubt that will deter its promoters.
 

And by the way, we've played Nebraska 8 times in the last 40 years. Hardly an intense rivalry in need of a trophy.
 

beat bucky said:
Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night? I can virtually guarantee you that if Nebraska beats us this year, they'll be flying home without this contrived, phony piece of junk. But I doubt that will deter its promoters.
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Is your stool softener not working? Or are those damn kids skateboarding on your sidewalk again? Let me guess......rock music and hoop skirts!!
 


beat bucky said:
Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night? I can virtually guarantee you that if Nebraska beats us this year, they'll be flying home without this contrived, phony piece of junk. But I doubt that will deter its promoters.
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beat bucky said:
Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night?
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I always have wondered why the older fans have such disdain for the student section/population.
 



beat bucky said:
Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night? I can virtually guarantee you that if Nebraska beats us this year, they'll be flying home without this contrived, phony piece of junk. But I doubt that will deter its promoters.
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It is popular with students certainly. But it's popularity isn't limited to students. It's a bit peculiar to dismiss it's popularity by referring to the students as "half-witted undergrads." Students are the core of college sports fandom - the Gophers wouldn't even exist without students. The traditions created by students are the best you will find.

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beat bucky said:
And by the way, we've played Nebraska 8 times in the last 40 years. Hardly an intense rivalry in need of a trophy.
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Makes more sense for Nebraska to play a trophy game with us than with any other team in the Big Ten except for maybe Iowa, what with them being border states, and also having played each other a lot in the past, though not as much as Nebraska has played the Gophers. Wisconsin and Nebraska had only played each other 8 times in their entire history, and they got a trophy, one that is certainly more deserving of the label of "contrived" than the chair. In fact the chair came about because Goldy and Faux Pelini were mocking the notion of contrived rivalry trophies. Goldy said something like "How about a friendly wager: winner of this week's game gets a Big Ten win." And Faux Pelini said "If Nebraska wins, you give me $5, if Minnesota wins, I get to break a chair over your back." And the joke snowballed into photoshop mockups and eventually someone making a physical, tangible version of it. The entire reason it has gotten to this point is because students and younger fans on the internet thought it was hilarious and embraced it. It's not because the Big Ten just said, "You guys are rivals now, here's a trophy."

I really hope it becomes a piece of modern history because I think it represents what a trophy should be. It exists because fans think it's funny/cool, not because men in suits and corporate sponsors are trying to create a tradition out of thin air and hope the fan support follows.
 


Cayman said:
Makes more sense for Nebraska to play a trophy game with us than with any other team in the Big Ten except for maybe Iowa, what with them being border states, and also having played each other a lot in the past, though not as much as Nebraska has played the Gophers. Wisconsin and Nebraska had only played each other 8 times in their entire history, and they got a trophy, one that is certainly more deserving of the label of "contrived" than the chair. In fact the chair came about because Goldy and Faux Pelini were mocking the notion of contrived rivalry trophies. Goldy said something like "How about a friendly wager: winner of this week's game gets a Big Ten win." And Faux Pelini said "If Nebraska wins, you give me $5, if Minnesota wins, I get to break a chair over your back." And the joke snowballed into photoshop mockups and eventually someone making a physical, tangible version of it. The entire reason it has gotten to this point is because students and younger fans on the internet thought it was hilarious and embraced it. It's not because the Big Ten just said, "You guys are rivals now, here's a trophy."

I really hope it becomes a piece of modern history because I think it represents what a trophy should be. It exists because fans think it's funny/cool, not because men in suits and corporate sponsors are trying to create a tradition out of thin air and hope the fan support follows.
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As you mentioned the context of this "trophy proposal" if you can call it that came right on the heels of the Freedom Trophy that was the definition of a contrived and nearly universally panned trophy.
 



beat bucky said:
Popular? Among who? A few half-witted undergrads that stumbled out of Stub and Herbs last night? I can virtually guarantee you that if Nebraska beats us this year, they'll be flying home without this contrived, phony piece of junk. But I doubt that will deter its promoters.
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