“Are you referring to the fact that you can’t walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?”
―
Stephenie Meyer
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So.
This morning I cruised thru the sports news to see my undergraduate alma mater, USC, had just won the conference women’s tennis championship beating the ever hated UCLA <fight on!>.
And they broke the trophy.
Oops.
Yup.
They dropped the trophy … and it shattered.
This made me think about all those wacky trophy ceremonies at the end of the championship games & events where they ask someone to pick up some huge incredibly unwieldy trophy and why they are not dropped more often.
Well.
It happens.
In fact … it reminded me of my “Oops. Clumsy me. Uh oh. That was a $50 million stumble. Do I tell mom?” post: https://brucemctague.com/oops-clumsy-me-uh-oh-that-was-a-50-million-stumble-do-i-tell-mom
And while the USC women’s tennis team is kind of funny … this one is hilarious.
In soccer … Real Madrid won the Spanish Cup but the celebrations went awry when Sergio Ramos dropped the trophy <oops part 1> from the roof of an open topped bus … and then the bus frickin’ ran it over <oops part 2>.
Bus running over trophy:
Ok.
This one may be even better.
While on a recruiting trip at University of Florida the recruit knocked Florida’s 2006 national championship crystal football from its pedestal.
<oops>
By the way … the recruit did not go to Florida.
By the way … the Waterford Crystal trophy is worth something like $30,000.
And in 2012 Alabama’s crystal national title trophy was shattered … oops … when the father of an Alabama player accidentally knocked the trophy over when he stumbled on a rug that was under the trophy display.
<oops … bring out the broom and dust pan>
I love this shit.
I wish it would happen more often.
I am sure trophies & awards are of value in some way but in general they seem inordinately exorbitant and useless.
All I know is that after watching the Stays in Las Vegas commercial maybe it does have some use:
Las Vegas: