Oops: Gators' $8,000 BCS football trophy smashed

As part of Florida's Orange and Blue weekend, fans viewed and posed with the 2006 BCS national championship trophy. But it was damaged Friday when someone knocked the top of the Waterford Crystal trophy, valued at $8,000, off its pedestal as it sat on a coffee table outside coach Urban Meyer's office. The football shattered. Chip Howard, associate athletics director for operations, said the trophy, one of two that UF owns, is insured and a replacement is expected to arrive in about three months. The company that manufactures the trophy told Howard that UF is the third school this year to need a replacement. Officials don't know who knocked the trophy down, but will continue to occasionally display it. "Accidents happen," Howard said.

Comments

[Scott]

Hilarious!

[Ted]

Sounds over priced to me. I'm sure they will just use funds from some educational purpose to fix it.

[Gator Hater]

Love it!

[Sean]

Ted, if you had read the article is say's that it was insured....

[Chief Osceola]

Can I get my spear back please?

[mm]

No worries, the replace ment will be there in 3 months along with a third one sometime in January!

[Gator Frank]

When you have so many championship trophies around, they get in the way sometimes.

[Big ol' Rog]

i heard that the trophy was smashed after urbans first viewing of the pain olympics

[Don]

You have a National Championship trophy just sitting on a coffee table?

[Big ol' Rog]

i heard that the trophy was smashed after urbans first viewing of the pain olympics

[truth]

They should send the new one out to USC where it should have gone in the first place.

[Judy]

No big deal, we'll be winning another one this year! Go Gators!!!

[Chief Osceola]

Was it the one from '96? You only lost one game that year, same as us.

[Amy]

HAHAHA....TOO FUNNY

[Gators #1]

On a coffee table? Well yes, we ran out of space in the trophy room and had to put it somewhere...

Football and crystal are not a good combination.

[bdiddy]

went to the orange and blue game. AWESOME. The nat'l chamionship trophy looked great right next to Tebow's Heisman. Rainey looked like the man. GET READY!

[ffsb]

"On a coffee table? Well yes, we ran out of space in the trophy room and had to put it somewhere..."

i guess they don't teach history at florida. the tropheys won since '96 were the first. maybe y'all dominated water polo throughout the 20th century, but i haven't really followed the sport.

[Urban]

A coffee Table...maybe they will learn a single wide does not make a good trophy room

[Don]

Tebow can use his super powers to fix it, dont worry!

[Gators love Jhort's]

Urban must've not been paying attention to where he was walking whilst texting recruits like a preteen...

who broke the trophy?

[Chief Osceola]

Tebow drop his bible while doing Salvia?

[joe scmoe]

i know who broke it.... http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=79631&sport=1

i played football against him he plays for plant. he broke it while being recruited.

[peter parker]

no thats wrong i heard it was preston tucker a florida commit for basebal

[Gary]

Heck, nobody knocked it over. It was just a delayed gravitational effect on the athletic dept. when the world stop revolving around the UF basketball program this year!

[Silence Dogood]

>>went to the orange and blue game. AWESOME. The nat'l chamionship trophy looked great right next to Tebow's Heisman. Rainey looked like the man. GET READY!<<

*YAWN*...Been there,done that,got the T-Shirt.

Signed,

Chief Osceola

[chief osceola`]

who is that kid on the link up 4 post. he's huge, if he broke it and is a recruit consider that his commitment to florida welcome aboard.

[Ken]

Go Buckeyes!

[Uck]

No one broke it. It fell over