Peace Pipe receives votes in ESPN's "silliest trophies&

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:55 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... rytrophies

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:57 pm

I have to say that I think the trophy is pretty lame.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:12 pm

Yeah, I agree. We came up with it because we thought we needed something like like the old oaken bucket. On the other hand, what's the trophy for the OSU-UM game. That's what I thought.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:16 pm

OSU players get a pair of gold football pants if they win. Woody started that tradition.

Why don't they just go take a chunk of 75, plaster it on some trophy wood and have that be the trophy?

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:44 pm

I like the peace pipe trophy because it carries historical context. The original was a massive 6 foot long authentic native american pipe that was up for grabs when the hoops teams met in the 50s. It appearantly went missing and was resurected in the late 70s or early 80s.

I have also heard that soemtimes it is used for medicinal purposes.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:48 pm

that original peace pipe didn't happen to reappear along "bong row" in the courthouse building, did it?

a 5 foot peace pipe would be a helluva trophy... much like Minnesota-Wisconsin's Paul Bunyan's Axe!

windycityfalcon · Post by **windycityfalcon** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:49 pm

Props to Dayon's Den yet again for beating me to the historical reference of the peace pipe.

Smoke one if you got one

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:50 pm

honestly the trophy for just about every rivalry is pretty dumb. at least peace pipe is a cool name

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:30 am

I think if the thing were still five or six feet long, that would be funny.

I think if we are going to have "The Peace Pipe" they really do need to make it something big again. Of course, I'm sure some bleeding heart would say we are offending native Americans, mocking the peace movement, and promoting smoking.

What we need is a traveling throphy representing the BGSU and UT fan communities, with the winning teams lead web site keeping the throphy as the team would the peace pipe. Take it to tailgates. Jack up some PR with it. Put pictures of it on the keepers web site.

Now what would the throphy be.....

A throphy with a bronzed modem on the top? Maybe wrape Cat 5 around the throphy stem, plugging the end into the modem? Maybe make the Cat 5 half orange, and half blue?

BGSUfanatUT · Post by **BGSUfanatUT** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:43 am

I think you're on to somethign here...

BGorDeath · Post by **BGorDeath** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:10 am

Yeah, I agree. We came up with it because we thought we needed something like like the old oaken bucket. On the other hand, what's the trophy for the OSU-UM game. That's what I thought.

I thought OSU players received SUV's from McDaniel Motors in Marion for winning. Plus, I think they also get a free steak from the Sizzler next door.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:39 am

NWLB wrote:Of course, I'm sure some bleeding heart would say we are offending native Americans, mocking the peace movement, and promoting smoking.

There is an element of religion to the use of peace pipes. I suppose it would be comparable to putting a cross or a crescent on a trophy.

But it needs to be put in perspective. It isn't like passing a human skull around (as Wittenberg and Ohio Weselyan did for 60 years).

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:43 am

I think we should play for an island.

Supposedly, the University (sic) of Toledo owns an island, and they can't figure out what to do with it.

I think they should bet it on the game. Winner gets title. Maybe we could stick a huge flag of the winning team on the island.

Or maybe there is another island to fight over. When you cross the Maumee on I-75, look to the west and you will see a small marshy island in the river.

I wonder who owns that?

A huge BG flag would look cool there.

FalconKing · Post by **FalconKing** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:09 pm

That is Grassy Island....or at least that is what my grandfather used to call it. Not sure who owns it, but I have been out there a few times when I was a kid. I remember an old collapsed barn being out there...but it has been a long, long time since I have been out there.

BGSUfanatUT · Post by **BGSUfanatUT** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:33 pm

DD- the addition to your banner is most excellent.