Rose Bowl applauds Big Ten Championship Trophy’s Public Debut

Stagg-Paterno Trophy on the left, Rose Bowl trophy on the right And there you have it, the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy made it’s first public appearance today during the initial stop of the B1G Mobile Tour at the Big Ten offices in Park Ridge, Illinois. Consider me a minimalist, but I’m a fan. The trophy, to be presented to the winner of the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game is essentially a modified replica of its Rose Bowl brethren. Dull. Unimaginative. Threadbare. But who said football trophies should be creative anyways? The opportunity for creativity when it comes to combining a silver football with the corresponding platform it rests on is minimal at best. And we’ve all seen what happens when creativity is allowed to run amok when it comes to designing football-related trophies. Frankly, we should all consider ourselves lucky that the Big Ten went with a simplistic, yet elegant version of a time-tested institution in light of the monstrosity the Iow...