Nebraska - Iowa Rivalry Trophy To Be Announced Friday
by Jon Johnston on Jul 26, 2011 11:01 AM CDT
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Yes, there will be a trophy for the end of season pre-declared rivalry game against Iowa, despite Tom Osborne repeatedly stating that rivalries are organically grown, not manufactured. I guess that's bound to happen given that this is the B1G
The trophy's name will be announced Friday morning during a breakfast at a Hyatt-Regency in Chicago. Given that invitation has the word "Hero" on it might give an indication as to its name. If they were doing this during lunch, perhaps that could be taken as a menu item, but I can't for the life of me think of anything "Hero" associated with breakfast.
Some on twitter have suggested that the new trophy might be named the "Nile Kinnick Trophy" since Kinnick has connections with both states, being in the Nebraska Hall of Fame and the namesake of Iowa's Football Stadium. I would have to say that would be incredibly stupid, a good indication that it's exactly what they'll do.
Seriously (what?) - maybe they could include two names. Maybe George Flippin should be included. He was a hero. Maybe all y'all have some better (or more) suggestions.
If there's one name that hasn't been mentioned it's "Dead Horse" since this subject has been beaten that badly. Still, they have to make an announcement about it, name the trophy, have another banquet and a breakfast and meet important people. You'd swear they were running for public office.
It's still over a month to real football! ARGHHHHHH!
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like they are trying to force the rivalry on us a little with this.
by Huzkerfan on Jul 26, 2011 12:01 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
The Cornucopia Cup
I’ve always thought that would be good. I never realized it has NU and IA in it too.
by HawkeyeRecon on Jul 26, 2011 12:29 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
And Iowa's at the ass end of it...
… which makes it that much better. 8-)
by Albino Tornado on Jul 26, 2011 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
I hope it's not the Nile Kinnick Trophy
He’s Iowa’s hero, not Nebraska’s. Undoubtedly a great player and greater man (his Heisman speech sounds like it’s being delivered by a great orator, not a 21-year-old college kid), but not a great Nebraskan. Sure, he played two years of high school football in Omaha, but I don’t think that entitles Nebraska to have any claim on what he did after leaving. Similarly, I don’t recall Gale Sayers being called “the Nebraska Comet”… I would prefer something with “corn” as well, if only because Nebraska won/borrowed/stole the Cornhuskers nickname from Iowa back in 1900 (“We have met the Cornhuskers and they are ours”).
Also, since Wisconsin is Nebraska’s first Big Ten conference opponent, and that was apparently the basis for one of Penn State’s trophy games, I’d love to see that as a trophy game as well…maybe the “AD’s Trophy,” with a tie-in to Tom Osborne and Barry Alvarez. Plus, the back story beats the heck out of the Governor’s Victory Bell’s.
That should be 1893, not 1900...
darn fact-checker is taking today off…
Little known fact
We took the Cornhusker nickname from Iowa, They took the Hawkeye nickname from us. You only ever hear the first part of the story, probably because it was never a commonly used nickname.
Omaha's Central High has had some good running backs go through it.
See also Calvin Jones and Ahman Green.
by Albino Tornado on Jul 26, 2011 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Can we not accept the trophy?
Unlikely to happen, but I say we win the game, and give them the trophy. Let the Hawkeyes keep it, win or lose. We’ll save space in our case for trophies that really matter.
Personally,i see it as the Big 10 trying to start some history
With Nebraska. And not accepting the trophy would come across as incredibly Arrogant. Just saying
Not really trying to start some history
it’s just what we do. More trophy games in the B1G then any other conference. We like shiny if not sometimes outright ugly things…
And being in the Legends or Leaders division isn't arrogant?
Nor is playing the Heroes Game? What…Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc don’t have heroes? Just Iowa and Nebraska?
The Heroes Game
Title was thrust upon us,it’s something neither Nebraska or Iowa would have picked. The arrogance i speak of is not accepting a trophy because it’s somehow beneath us? That reminds me of the Texas baseball team several years ago.
The corn thing is played out
they could do something with I-80 like baltimore and washington have with the battle of the beltway, or something with the Missouri river. hell even combine the names of the schools or states (NebrIowa, Hawksker) not the most cleaver but its better then another corn cob or a funny painted John Deere tractor.
The Golden Plow
Although apparently the Farm Bureau has an honor named the same that they give to the congressman they feel most advanced the interests of agriculture. So it might need to be the Silver plow or something like that.
Still, when one team ‘plows another under’ in the title game, they get the golden/silver/or whatever plow.
"What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion." Thoreau
by UltimaRatioRegum on Jul 26, 2011 2:21 PM CDT reply actions
one thing
we should get together some photoshops for Friday, though, coming up with your own NEIA trophy
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
cornnation@gmail.com
My idea of an awesome trophy
Just make it a pure gold or gold plated football made by Tiffany. No base attached, just a life sized gold football that is the same size as a regular football but the skin is kerneled like a cob of corn. A pure gold football with no attached base would be awesome and would blow the sterling silver Lambordi trophy out of the water, not to mention one up the crystal ball that everyone covets. It would have a stand when on display but would be held aloft by the winner of the Missouri Mayhem game. Each side of the laces would be the logo of each school.
you know....
they are announcing it during breakfast. Maybe instead of taking “Hero” as a sign, we should take it as a sign they approve of beef n bacon!
<———- insert snarky bacon or beef pix here since I’m at work right now -—————>
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
cornnation@gmail.com
Farmageddon!
With a tractor being blasted in a nuclear cloud! No photoshop skills, so I will have to allow for imaginations!
by jon's only friend on Jul 26, 2011 4:00 PM CDT reply actions
Farmageddon is Iowa St - Kansas St
And they can keep it
by Wolvie on Jul 26, 2011 8:23 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Honestly I couldn't care less what it was called
As long as it spends most of it’s time in the west side of the missouri.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 26, 2011 4:11 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
It shall be called The Missouri Mayhem Game
It also gives a tribute to our former opponent that we played for over a hundred years.
Maybe we should just do away with the trophy and play for council bluffs
As in, loser takes council bluffs for a year.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 26, 2011 6:04 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
That is funny!
Does Carter Lake go too as part of the package?
by jon's only friend on Jul 26, 2011 7:46 PM CDT up reply actions
I think that's a deal breaker
Nebraska won’t sign the contract if there’s the slightest chance we’ll be stuck with CL.
I know that CB bashing is an artform...
but frankly, I like many parts of the town. Because of where I live , it’s easier for me to get to most of Council Bluffs for shopping than it is to get the the vast retail wastelands of west Omaha. My favorite wing joint (Quaker Steak and Lube) is located there, just west of the Mid-America Center. The retail is improving – HyVee just opened a new store at about 25th and Broadway; there’s two new retail plazas that are still being built out; and the first Chick-Fil-A in the Omaha metro area will be going into one of these plazas (the Marketplace, already has a JC Penneys, Shopko, Texas Roadhouse, and Culvers).
Now, let’s make the trophy interesting – the loser has to go to the Razzle Dazzle.
Second Chick-Fil-A
Unfortunately, you have to be a Mutual of Omaha resident to eat there.
And the “public art” on that bridge is part Thunderdome, part Beetlejuice, and all ugly. I wonder how many crashes that monstrosity has caused.
by Albino Tornado on Jul 26, 2011 11:11 PM CDT up reply actions
This should be what the trophy looks like.
In the deed, the glory.
Corn Nation!
by Aaron Musfeldt on Jul 27, 2011 8:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Quaker Steak is awesome.
Chick-Fil-A is awesome too, never been to the one in Mutual of Omaha but I’ve had it before.
The vast majority of CB sucks, and you can take that to the bank.
It is what it is and we are who we are.
Sober (again) since January 10th, 2011.
Not all those who wander are lost. /////// I dont mind stealing bread.
by nateforchiefs on Jul 27, 2011 6:19 AM CDT up reply actions
I've been to the bank in CB
A big yard with a shovel.
Just as long as it isn't JUST the Nile Kinnick Trophy
Great guy no doubt, but as a ton of people have already pointed out, he’s an Iowa guy and his Nebraska ties are paper thin. Bo Pelini arguably has deeper Iowa roots (one year as an Iowa Grad Assistant!) than Kinnick has Nebraska roots.
"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne
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