Alabama just won the BCS National Championship Game tonight against Notre Dame, and at the end of the game, there was an award ceremony to present the trophy: “The Coaches’ Trophy”. This trophy looks like a cut crystal football, which I guess is what it is, really. But it’s awfully fragile, which seems like maybe not the best idea for the trophy for such a brutal sport.
Well, seeing as how his team just dumped freezing cold Gatorade all over him, I was half hoping for Nick Saban to say: “Hey, this is called ‘The Coaches’ Trophy’, and I’m the coach, so it’s mine! (Addressing his players) You guys just dumped icy-cold Gatorade all over me, so you don’t get to touch it!” Then he could grab the trophy like a football in one hand, stick out his other arm in a ‘stiff-arm’, and run the trophy out of the stadium and spike it on the asphalt, breaking it into thousands of sharp pieces, saying: “There: Now you can touch it!” (Then he could grumble under his breath: “That’ll teach you not to pour Gatorade on me anymore!”)
And as some of you may remember, one of these crystal football-shaped trophies for the National Championship title got dropped and broken at Alabama, so maybe the BCS should consider making it out of Lucite from now on, just so it won’t break if it gets manhandled by a bunch of overexcited enormous football players.
But it’s great to see Alabama win another National Championship! As an avid Alabama football fan, it’s very nice for me to get to see this! Congratulations (again), and Roll Tide!
Also, I recently found out that Bear Bryant had never beaten Notre Dame before, so it would have been fun if Nick Saban had displayed some bombast by bellowing at the award ceremony: “Bear Bryant: You are avenged!!!”
