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The perfect traveling trophy for Iowa-Nebraska
For months Iowa and Nebraska fans have started message board topics on a possible traveling trophy between the two football programs.
With Nebraska’s entry into the Big Ten next year, the schools are slated to conclude their regular season against one another for at least the next two years. It’s likely the teams will meet in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 28.
So in the land of traveling trophies, the schools should play for … a pitchfork. It’s a vital agricultural tool and farming is the foundation of both states. Nebraska’s nickname is the Cornhuskers. Iowa’s primary cash crop is corn. Plus, the painting “American Gothic” by Iowan Grant Wood features a pitchfork. Some people have called the rivalry “Farmageddon.”
The pitchfork could be painted black on one side and red on the other. It seems like an natural choice for what seems like an automatic rivalry.
So, what are your thoughts?
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No way.
First of all, do you really think it’s a good idea to have a pitchfork in the middle of the scrums that occur when the winning teams rush to get a trophy?
Then there/s the matter of listing the winning team on the trophy. It would be pretty clumsy to do so on the handle.
I don’t think it would be too bad. After all, Wisconsin and Minnesota play for an axe.
Make the handle bigger and it’ll be fine. And dull up the blades.
Iowa State is the state’s agricultural school, so perhaps it should have a farming-relating trophy with Nebraksa.
Frankly, who cares? Floyd is based on racial discrimination and therefor, means something, as most of the other Big Ten trophies, except the Heartland, do. Just play!