Fox Sports 1 ad features a heavy dose of Nebraska

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23 hours ago, saunders45 said:

1. Unless  you have a more recent poll, It's the most recent data, so it's not outdated. This is some #FakeNews type of discrediting.

2. Did the "University" create it? No. But it wasn't some lone guy either.

3. Ok.

 

Yeah it kinda was.  I can't find the tweets of the dude who created the trophy (he tweeted pictures of himself making it) but it started on twitter with Goldy Gopher asking fauxPelini if he cared to make an online wager a couple of days before the game.  

 

 

The internet ran with it, finally the dude in Minnesota slapped together the trophy in his garage in time for him to give it to Goldy to take to Lincoln.  He did it on his own but it was pretty immediately embraced by Minnesota, Nebraska and the online community at least.

 

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The trophy travelled for a few years but the NUAD definitely shut it down (it appears that Minnesota is not interested in maintaining the Chair as an official trophy either):

http://247sports.com/Bolt/Nebraska-wants-the-5-Bits-of-Broken-Chair-Trophy-to-go-away-49203334

 

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This document contains pretty definitive proof that NU (and UM, too) shut the trophy down, one line in particular to pay attention to is quoted below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2SYfiSSgUO-UkhtVkZLSlNSYW8/view

 

">>>No idea on the whereabouts of the chair since it's not an official trophy game.  I don't think either school is interested in promoting it if we can avoid that."

 

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As for Minnesota fans?  Yeah, they still talk about it, here's a thread from GopherHole just within the last couple of weeks:

http://www.forums.gopherhole.com/boards/showthread.php?77418-The-Jug-Pig-Bell-and-Axe&highlight=bits+of+broken+chair