This is Why Alabama Can’t Have Nice Things
This would never happen at Oregon:
A piece of history from the University of Alabama’s championship run was shattered on Saturday afternoon following the Crimson Tide’s annual A-Day scrimmage.
Alabama’s $30,000 crystal BCS trophy shattered into little pieces on Saturday when a player’s father tripped on a rug and knocked over the display table.
The Coaches’ Trophy from this season’s BCS national title was accidentally knocked off its podium and shattered by a player’s father whose foot got caught on a rug that sits beneath the trophy display. The Waterford crystal trophy was on display in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility halls, home to coach Nick Saban’s office and other athletic personnel.
Turn the trophy into a bong? Maybe. Let someone knock it over and break it? Never.
Then again, national championships in football never happen in Oregon, either.
Boomer Sooner.
If the trophy had been broken in Oregon, it would have happened because Phil Knight was putting a Nike logo on it.
Doesn’t it already come that way? Like the jerseys, and the helmets, and the jockstraps, and the…
Y’know, I’m just thinking: I have a local bar softball league trophy sitting on a shelf in a locked cabinet.
Apparently, the victory of McHale’s Bar and Grill in the MS 2010 New York City Tournament is more valuable to me than the BCS trophy to UAlabama.
Does the University of Oregon actually have any trophies worth destroying?
I see what you did there.
I’ve always thought of that as an Everton joke.
Everton:Liverpool::Manchester City:Manchester United, no? So, basically, the same jokes ought to work for both.
Someone broke into Sarah Palin’s library and stole the contents. Police are looking for a man carrying…
… a magazine rack.
…all newspapers.
…a copy of Goodnight Moon with several notes in the margins.
.. and a bookmark on page 3.
1000 boxes of remaindered copies of Going Rogue
or a package of Starburst candy
Her left palm
FTW.
1939 NCAA basketball title my friend.
Was Oregon even a state then?
1939?
Who’d they beat, Dartmouth?
CCNY, I think.
They beat those assholes from Ohio State, 46-33
And they beat Texas and Oklahoma to get to the finals. Given my predilections in football, I would love to see Oregon march through a playoff beating these three schools.
That should really be their official team name.
Those Assholes from THE! Ohio State.
+1
Nah, back then they were an Ohio State.
Then let me say: Go Ducks!
1939 NCAA tournament championship. NIT champs Long Island University are generally considered the National Champions.
Americans really are competitive – a championship for head lice.
I’m surprised Bama hadn’t deep-fried the trophy yet.
What makes you think they hadn’t?
I wonder how many alumni from there are falling to their knees tonight and praying to God that this isn’t some sort of sign of the coming apocalypse.
Cheers,
Alan Tomlinson
P.S. The energy I spent typing that is energy that I will never get back.
I like that it’s not the same as the plaque every NCAA winner gets; those are all identical.
But it was only a matter of time before someone dropped a detachable glass football.
That’s because it’s not an NCAA sanctioned chapionship.
There is no NCAA Championship in D I-A (or whatever they’re calling it these days) football.
Auburn fans couldn’t figure out how to poison crystal and since Saban has been using a taster, they decided to break the trophy.
Imagine if something like this happened to the Crack Baby Athletic Association’s championship trophy.
A bong? You poor fool! Wait till you see those goddamn bats.
“Sooo, Dad… Remember all the times you griped about me denting the Caddy door? Yeah, this is going on your tombstone. “
Two words: earthquake wax.
Umm, I’m pretty sure the Alabama State Legislature is why they can’t have nice things. YMMV
Turn the trophy into a bong? Maybe. Let someone knock it over and break it? Never.
Knock it over accidentally? Never. Dent it badly while using it as the ball in a game of Impromptu Drunken Football on Princes Street? Maybe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Cup