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New Cy-Hawk Trophy makes old one look like Heisman, Stanley Cup, and Oscar all rolled into one
I have been upstaged. I was going to announce the winning entry to name the Tennessee Tech-Iowa football game today (that will wait until Monday), but then they went and unveiled the new Cy-Hawk Trophy at the Iowa State Fair.
And the replacement for the much-maligned old Cy-Hawk is truly … strange. It’s a farm family talking after a day of work. Nothing says “rivalry football game” like that.
The trophy reflects Iowa values. That’s what was announced at its unveiling Friday with its corporate sponsors there to celebrate it. OK, that makes sense.
Wait. No, it doesn’t make sense. This thing is a college football trophy? It’s more like a scene from “The Grapes of Wrath.”
Seriously, though. Can the Big Ten and Iowa (you share an equal blame in this one, Iowa State) be part of a new trophy, division name or rivalry-game name that isn’t pompous or ridiculous? Don’t be surprised if Floyd of Rosedale high-tails it toward the Boundary Waters to get away from his new fellow Legends and Leaders and Heroes and the sort.
The winner gets this?
This has never looked better
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One can only hope this thing is dropped at every opportunity – the whole thing.
Wow! The new trophy is AWFUL! Who comes up with these ideas???
Nothing says “Football Rivalry” like a bucolic family conference in Kossuth County. What next? The Northwestern-Iowa rivalry celebrated with a tableau of grinning farmworkers pushing a Chicago lawyer’s BMW out of the mud? How about the new Purdue rivalry featuring a slaughterhouse worker red to the elbows with gore? How about a nice scene of pig castrations for the Michigan game? THAT ought to whet the appetite for football, by gum! Lord have MERCY! Where do they come up with these things?
Is that Pochohontas? And maybe Robert Duvall? Opie? I don’t get it. It would make more sense if he was offering a football.
Count to TEN slowly… very slowly…
1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10…
Let me be the first to say that the Corn Producers trophy makes the original Cy-Hawk trophy look “extraordinarily majestic”.
What are the CORN PRODUCERS thinking… Great award for an agricultural event…but this new trophy is for a…FOOTBALL GAME. The Corn Producers are evidently eager to hype their product, not the winner of the annual Iowa-ISU game.
I have a high school classmate that graduated from Iowa State and I graduated from Iowa. I am pretty sure that if we were given the commission to create a football trophy recognizing the winner of a FOOTBALL GAME, that we could do a better job.
This is really embarrassing… as a former player who played in this rivalry, this trophy has nothing to do with a football game.. It looks like a well-done State Fair trophy or something that should be surrounded by a fountain.. I have gotten to know many of the younger Iowa players after my days, and many of the Iowa State players, and I am sure this is an insult to them as well.. who comes up with these things ?? I can only imagine, that next year this will be made out of butter.. It is a football game.. not a state fair event… it is not just a trophy for the players, and that is why this new trophy is so out of line.. I don’t think I am the first
person to look at this and wonder… let me leave you with this; ARE YOU KIDDING ???? Jon Lazar – Iowa Captain 1978.
“AFTER FURTHER REVIEW”
May the winner of the game paint the sculpture atop the trophy. For an ISU win, Cardinal paint. For an Iowa win Black paint, AND no removal of the previous years paint job.
After a few years, and multiple layers of paint, we will all forget the atrocious trophy the Corn Producers forced on the universities.
Well, Jon Lazar, nice to hear from you on this page. How is old number 44 these days?
Really unbelievable. It is time to ditch the trophy altogether because they don’t get it. Let the trophies happen, don’t force them on us. And keep the corporations’ hands off. Pretty soon, we will see the Orville Reddenbacher Old Oaken Bucket and the Dominos Pizza Little Brown Jug. What a joke.
While we throw out this ridiculous trophy, let’s find a way to play Wisconsin — not the Cyclones — every season. We want that bull trophy back.
I was good until I saw this mess of a trophy…… Some say it is just a trophy…. not really.. it is alittle more than that …. I won one, and lost one… this is one you don’t mind losing… I opt for a DROP THE TROPHY FUND… donations for the winning team as they drop the trophy…. Money goes to the school charity…. How about that ?? Let’s see how long that lasts.. How do you know this is a trophy for a football game… I know we play for a pig at Minnesota…. and there are a few others, but this one takes the cake !
The new “trophy” is mediocre sculpture, at best. There is NOTHING in that touching tableau that says “slobberknocker football.”
After the Hawks beat ISU, I hope they run this thing to the top of the Kinnick pressbox and heave it as far as they can…
What a hot mess of a “trophy.”
Worst. Award. Ever.
I think this may be the first trophy I’ve ever seen that is actually trying to tell a story rather than, you know, be a trophy…
I guess you can say they were thinking outside the box. They took a very simple concept and well, did this.
I think the lesson to take away from this is that Creative and Unique are not always good things.
Wow, and what was the price tag on this one? I hope who designed it got fired from there job……unreal