🏈 What happened to the crystal football national championship trophy?

[Michael Casagrande |]

So what about the Waterford Crystal ball?

It wasn't retired. The fragile symbol of success is still awarded to the No. 1 team in the Amway Coaches Poll. It just wasn't retained as the official trophy awarded on the field after the title game. That means a new one is coming to Tuscaloosa on Saturday.

The 2016 national championship crystal will be awarded to Alabama at the celebration after the 11 a.m. parade on campus. The procession will start at Denny Chimes and end at the Walk of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium where a program will begin.

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[TerryP]

We had a thread about this a few years ago ...

I guess the total number of trophies awarded for the title is at five now?

 

[TerryP]

BTW, that's AP, Coaches, Macarthur, and Grantland Rice ...

 

[bamachine]

Yeah, the new official one is the Giant's Desk Pen Holder trophy.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Yeah, the new official one is the Giant's Desk Pen Holder trophy.

That is a perfect comparison

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[PhillyGirl]

We've had at least 2 threads about this in the past week haha.

Clearly we are up in arms over that gorgeous crystal football being awarded on TV!

 

[BamaFan334]

Will they have the trophies available for pictures this Saturday like they did back in 2012?

 

[PCRammer]

After the world saw Jameis hoist it in 2013 the crystal ball became a forever tainted image and football had to move forward while leaving behind the atrocities of the past.

 

[Hardkore]

Have they got a new trophy room/hall expansion planned yet?

 

[EasyTider]

Have they got a new trophy room/hall expansion planned yet?

Gonna need it :bamadance:

 

[Bamabww]

After the world saw Jameis hoist it in 2013 the crystal ball became a forever tainted image and football had to move forward while leaving behind the atrocities of the past.

This is the best explanation I've read.

 

[bamachine]

After the world saw Jameis hoist it in 2013 the crystal ball became a forever tainted image and football had to move forward while leaving behind the atrocities of the past.

With that thinking, Saban should have held two less Crystal footballs aloft at the end of title games, instead, he should have held two more pen holders aloft.

 

[rick4bama]

We had a thread about this a few years ago ...

I guess the total number of trophies awarded for the title is at five now?

Do we have a new photo of him staying with the new trophies?

 

[TerryP]

Do we have a new photo of him staying with the new trophies?

Go to the news page...several tweets with pics.

 

[252BAMA]

We've had at least 2 threads about this in the past week haha.

Clearly we are up in arms over that gorgeous crystal football being awarded on TV!

Did you visit the Waterford Crystal Factory when you were in Ireland? If so, did you take the factory tour?

 

[rick4bama]

Go to the news page...several tweets with pics.

OK!! Thanks I've been looking for it.

 

[AFF]

 

[PhillyGirl]

Did you visit the Waterford Crystal Factory when you were in Ireland? If so, did you take the factory tour?

Of course! I got to hold a replica of the crystal football. I gotta find the pic and share. I had a Bama hoodie on and the tour guide saw me salivating over the crystalline football so he let me hold it haha.

 

[252BAMA]

Of course! I got to hold a replica of the crystal football. I gotta find the pic and share. I had a Bama hoodie on and the tour guide saw me salivating over the crystalline football so he let me hold it haha.

Was there in May of 2008. Told the Master Engraver hosting the Demo/Q&A session at the end of the tour that he could go ahead and prepare several of them for Bama because he would be getting orders very soon.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Did you visit the Waterford Crystal Factory when you were in Ireland? If so, did you take the factory tour?