New Cy-Hawk Trophy?

**CYKT** · 08-06-2010, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by edr247

Why would players not get excited and take pride in and fight for a new trophy? One that actually symbolizes the Battle for Iowa (sorry UNI)?

You won't win a fight with RebecaCy He/She is always right! Just ask Him/Her!

**CYkodelic** · 08-06-2010, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by edr247

Why would players not get excited and take pride in and fight for a new trophy? One that actually symbolizes the Battle for Iowa (sorry UNI)?

you really don't get it. go tell your wife that you think her wedding ring is ugly and she should get a new one. then let me know how that goes.

**CtownCyclone** · 08-06-2010, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by CYkodelic

you really don't get it. go tell your wife that you think her wedding ring is ugly and she should get a new one. then let me know how that goes.

I am told that works really well if you present her with a newer, prettier, shinier wedding ring.

**edr247** · 08-06-2010, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by CYkodelic

you really don't get it. go tell your wife that you think her wedding ring is ugly and she should get a new one. then let me know how that goes.

Not married, but if the current one was a cheap, 2 dollar plastic one I found at a yard sale and the new one was a better looking gold one that actually symbolized our relationship, you don't think she would go for it? Plus it's not like I'm necessarily throwing the old one in the garbage or something. I could put it in a nice class case and have a card saying that it was the old one and it's been retired. Not that hard.

I'm not saying the current trophy doesn't mean anything. But I don't see why a nicer one that has something to do with Iowa and Iowa State on the top wouldn't mean as much as the current one.

Trophies have changed in rivalries, and the rivalries haven't diminished in anyway. The Badgers and Gophers still fight as hard for the Axe as they did for the Slab of Bacon. And while it's only a year old, I don't think Northwestern players won't fight as hard for the 'Land of Lincoln Trophy' as they would the old 'Sweet Sioux Tomahawk'.

**Cy Hard** · 08-06-2010, 02:46 PM

So no one knows the story of how a Ames resident&ISU fan created the trophy back when the rivalry was being renewed and as he thought needed a trophy? Say what you want about it, but at least it is our trophy (created by a Cyclone). No EIU fan can say that. Don't ruin the tradition of a 'nobody' making a mark in the collegiate game.

**edr247** · 08-06-2010, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Cy Hard

So no one knows the story of how a Ames resident&ISU fan created the trophy back when the rivalry was being renewed and as he thought needed a trophy? Say what you want about it, but at least it is our trophy (created by a Cyclone). No EIU fan can say that. Don't ruin the tradition of a 'nobody' making a mark in the collegiate game.

It was created by a Cyclone? NO WONDER IT'S SO FRIGGIN UGLY!!

To be honest, the only thing I knew about the origin was that it was donated by The Greater Des Moines Athletic Club, which apparently doesn't exist anymore.

“It’s my recollection that it was just a bunch of guys sitting around a bar one night, and they decided the teams ought to play for something,” said Buck Turnbull, a sportswriter who covered Iowa college athletics for 41 years (1952-1993) at the Des Moines Register.
“So they dreamed up this Cy-Hawk Trophy. I’ve only seen it from a distance, but I don’t think it’s much too look at.”

Cy-Hawk talk | GazetteOnline.com

Yeah, it's the Morehouse. Yeah, it's the Gazette. Yeah, it's biased. Get over it.

**CyForPresident** · 08-06-2010, 05:28 PM

Well, the Cy-Hawk trophy is going to have to be retired at some point. We will eventually run out of space for the scores of each game. Plus, people carrying the thing around and partying with it, is hard on it. It will eventually just need to be retired due to age. See the football almost falling off.

A new trophy will be needed at some point. Now is as good a time as ever.

**alarson** · 08-06-2010, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by CyForPresident

Well, the Cy-Hawk trophy is going to have to be retired at some point. We will eventually run out of space for the scores of each game. Plus, people carrying the thing around and partying with it, is hard on it. It will eventually just need to be retired due to age. See the football almost falling off.

A new trophy will be needed at some point. Now is as good a time as ever.

Agreed.

Additionally, yes, theres been a lot of work gone into getting the existing trophy over the years. But sometimes you have to move forward. Just like we progressed forward out of Clyde Williams and the Armory into Jack Trice and Hilton, where there was just as much put in in those facilities by our players, there is a time to move on. The cy-hawk trophy is long overdue for this.

**rebecacy** · 08-07-2010, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by alarson

Agreed.

Additionally, yes, theres been a lot of work gone into getting the existing trophy over the years. But sometimes you have to move forward. Just like we progressed forward out of Clyde Williams and the Armory into Jack Trice and Hilton, where there was just as much put in in those facilities by our players, there is a time to move on. The cy-hawk trophy is long overdue for this.

So "Floyd of Rosedale or the Old Oaken Bucket. etc, etc.," will be retired because "sometimes you have to move forward" ............I don't think so.