{"id":524,"date":"2026-03-12T02:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sportsspotter.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:10:40","slug":"the-30000-trophy-that-a-father-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/the-30000-trophy-that-a-father-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"The $30,000 trophy that a father destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When you win a National Championship nothing can really upset you. You are on cloud 9 until the next championship comes around and you have to do it all again. Alabama Crimson Tide was recently crowned winners and awarded the beautiful BCS trophy as a result. They later displayed it a training ground where a father of one of the players accidentally dropped it, smashing it to pieces.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, when you make a trophy out of crystal, you are asking for trouble. The BCS trophy is a beautiful piece of Waterford crystal in the shape of a football.<strong> The trophy is worth $30,000. It was awarded to Alabama Crimson Tide when they won the NCAA BCS National Championship.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team was later celebrating A-Day, a squad scrimmage that signals the end of training for the season. Trophies were put on display for fans, friends, and family to take photos.<strong> One fan and family member got too close to the award and accidentally knocked it<\/strong>. The ball smashed to pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative for the university said the dad was feeling really bad about it. The university contacted the owners of the trophy and was told that a new one would be made for them to display. <strong>It sounds like it was well insured then, thankfully.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the trophy insured makes sense as this is not its first mishap. <strong>The 2006 ball was shattered and two more were reported stolen in previous years.<\/strong> While a steady hand is needed to win a football game it seems a steady one is required to be in the same room as the trophy as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We are sure that the football player will never let his dad forget his little mishap and that it will bring some good moments at family reunions in future years. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you win a National Championship nothing can really upset you. You are on cloud 9 until the next championship comes around and you have to do it all again. Alabama Crimson Tide was recently crowned winners and awarded the beautiful BCS trophy as a result. They later displayed it a training ground where a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sports-spotters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}