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Old 04-17-2012, 06:48 PM
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There are now a million pieces of Alabama's national championship trophy to go around.

During the weekend's A-Day festivities, a parent of a current player tripped on a rug that was under the display case and the Waterford Crystal football crashed to the ground shattering into a million little pieces.

The trophy, which was handmade in Ireland and worth $30,000, was in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility where Nick Saban's office is located.

Associate Athletics Director for Football Communications Jeff Purinton told AL.com the school is in the process of getting the football replaced.

That undisclosed parent shouldn't feel too bad, this isn't the first time the crystal football has been broken. In 2008, then-recruit Orson Charles broke Florida's national championship trophy while admiring it.

And in 2006, Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan allowed the crystal basketball to slip off his fingertips and onto the stage during the team's Midnight Madness event. Luckily, that was a joke. A cruel, cruel joke.

Who knows if we'll find out the name of the clumsy parent (I have a feeling we will), but something like this can't bode well for his son's playing time.
That parent should be doing laps for the whole year...
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That parent should be doing laps for the whole year...
I'm seeing a very big "own a piece of history" Internet marketing opportunity here!
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I'm seeing a very big "own a piece of history" Internet marketing opportunity here!
and with the reported million shards and a 30,000 price tag, they would only have to charge 3 cents a shard to recoup their expense.
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When I first heard of this story, for a moment I thought Jackie Smith was involved.

And yes, this was a Super Bowl.

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Wow.
Talk about a "wanna get away" movement ...

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ionship-trophy
Carleton Tinker Broke Alabama's Crystal Football | SportsGrid

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"It wasn’t Carleton Tinker’s finest moment. Tinker is the father of Carson Tinker, the long snapper on last season’s BCS-national-championship-winning Alabama team, and one of the perks of producing national-championship-winning offspring is that you get to get up close and personal with the trophy if you so choose. You know, this one. It’s worth $30,000. Not just anyone gets to get their hands on it. But last weekend, at Alabama’s spring game, Carleton Tinker did. It’s not like he was the only one: recruits were picking the thing up too. Tinker decided to get in on the action. He picked the trophy up. He put it back down.

And then, the crystal football shattered.

Tinker described the experience to ESPN’s Ivan Maisel: “In my mind, it was slow motion… at night, as I went to sleep, every time I closed my eyes, I kept seeing it roll off and hit the floor. That marble floor in the trophy room — it wasn’t going to be a soft landing. It shattered. It spread out all over the place.” And he didn’t even know exactly how it happened: “I’m not sure if I bumped the table when I turned around, or if my foot caught on the large tablecloth they had draped and puddled on the floor.”

The only thing that was sure: he had just broken Alabama’s national championship trophy."
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