The University of Alabama’s crystal prize for winning last season’s college football championship had a pretty short shelf life – and somewhere, a player’s parent is blushing crimson.
The roughly $30,000 Waterford crystal football that tops the trophy from the American Football Coaches Association fell and shattered on Saturday when the father of an Alabama player caught his foot on a rug where the trophy stood at Alabama’s Mal Moore Athletic Facility, according to CNN affiliate WIAT and ESPN’s Alex Scarborough.
The accident is said to have happened after the Crimson Tide’s annual intrasquad spring game, which 78,526 fans watched Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. A tiny piece of the broken crystal prize, made in Ireland, can be seen on Scarborough’s Twitter account.
Alabama was awarded the trophy after beating LSU 21-0 in the Bowl Championship Series title game on January 9. More Here
