Most Important Trophy Game

[Redux]

Pre Big Ten, we had 1 trophy game against Mizzou. Now that we reside in the Big Ten, 4 years later, we have 3 more.

 

So which one do you like the most, and why? Not just the trophy itself (design), but the actual game as well (series).

[Redux]

Note* The 5 national championships are not rivalry trophies, but yes they are all of our favorites.

[NUance]

Are you asking about the actual trophy itself? Or which game we want to win the most?

 

I like the bell trophy the best. But I want to beat Wisconsin most of all.

[Saunders]

Broken chair by a landslide.

[Redux]

Are you asking about the actual trophy itself? Or which game we want to win the most?

 

I like the bell trophy the best. But I want to beat Wisconsin most of all.

 

Edited OP for clarity.

[knapplc]

D - None of the above

 

 

They got way ahead of themselves with these "rivalry" and trophy games. It's all so transparently artificial, and nobody really cares about them. The Wisconsin game will be a rivalry if we ever start beating them. Iowa won't be unless either of us starts competing for the division anytime soon. If they don't, playing Iowa is no different than playing Purdue - and there's no trumped-up trophy for that game.

 

Give Faux Pelini credit. He did a good job of skewering the artificiality of these trophy games and actually came up with something funny. And, it's against a team that we've been playing evenly-matched games with since joining the Big Ten. Turns out, the $5 bits of broken chair trophy was a collaborative effort from Chucky McChuckles the Minnesota mascot, Faux Pelini, and reddit.

 

We need a trophy for the Northwestern game. I believe someone suggested The Battle for NU a few years back.

[NUance]

 

Are you asking about the actual trophy itself? Or which game we want to win the most?

 

I like the bell trophy the best. But I want to beat Wisconsin most of all.

Edited OP for clarity.

 

 

Thanks!

 

I edited my vote accordingly.

[Redux]

D - None of the above

 

 

They got way ahead of themselves with these "rivalry" and trophy games. It's all so transparently artificial, and nobody really cares about them. The Wisconsin game will be a rivalry if we ever start beating them. Iowa won't be unless either of us starts competing for the division anytime soon. If they don't, playing Iowa is no different than playing Purdue - and there's no trumped-up trophy for that game.

 

Give Faux Pelini credit. He did a good job of skewering the artificiality of these trophy games and actually came up with something funny. And, it's against a team that we've been playing evenly-matched games with since joining the Big Ten.

 

We need a trophy for the Northwestern game. I believe someone suggested The Battle for NU a few years back.

While I agree that the conference jumped the gun on Iowa and Wiscy, I think the Minny series is acceptable by rivalry standards.

 

While its true Minny already has several established rivalries and trophies to contend for, we do hold a long historocal series with them. Not only that but the trophy in this game was fan/team made which follows along more so than the 2 fabricated by the league.

[Landlord]

Broken chair by a landslide.

 

 

 

This.

 

The only one that isn't a corporate money grab trying to force something that will never work.

[StPaulHusker]

Broken chair because it pokes Delaney in the eye about how stupid it was to manufacture a rivalry.

[Saunders]

 

Broken chair by a landslide.

 

 

 

This.

 

The only one that isn't a corporate money grab trying to force something that will never work.

 

Also:

 

[cg_8]

Oh, well, I voted before really understanding the question. Which, is still pretty open ended. I voted the trophy with Wisconsin because that will be the most valuable victory. I changed my vote after I wrote what I wrote.

 

However, I love the broken chair, because of how it began. It was a joke started on twitter. Kind of the way any 21st century trophy should start, if you ask me. It's the first truly "viral" trophy (that sounds terrible without knowing it's from the internet). Started on twitter. Designed on Reddit.

 

The trophy wasn't forced upon our two teams like the Iowa and Wisconsin trophies. There probably will not be any "real" pride in winning it, but I imagine the players having a blast carrying the thing after the victory as if it was a championship trophy. It's the kind of fun that is needed in sports. Especially at the collegiate level.

[The Dude]

This is the first I've heard of a "Freedom Trophy". What the actual f#*k?

[Saunders]

This is the first I've heard of a "Freedom Trophy". What the actual f#*k?

They made it up last year. 'Merica

[knapplc]

 

D - None of the above

 

 

They got way ahead of themselves with these "rivalry" and trophy games. It's all so transparently artificial, and nobody really cares about them. The Wisconsin game will be a rivalry if we ever start beating them. Iowa won't be unless either of us starts competing for the division anytime soon. If they don't, playing Iowa is no different than playing Purdue - and there's no trumped-up trophy for that game.

 

Give Faux Pelini credit. He did a good job of skewering the artificiality of these trophy games and actually came up with something funny. And, it's against a team that we've been playing evenly-matched games with since joining the Big Ten.

 

We need a trophy for the Northwestern game. I believe someone suggested The Battle for NU a few years back.

While I agree that the conference jumped the gun on Iowa and Wiscy, I think the Minny series is acceptable by rivalry standards.

 

While its true Minny already has several established rivalries and trophies to contend for, we do hold a long historocal series with them. Not only that but the trophy in this game was fan/team made which follows along more so than the 2 fabricated by the league.

 

 

I edited my post, probably while you were typing this. I'm on board with a Minnesota rivalry. The series so far, even only including recent history, seems rivalry-esque. Same for Northwestern.