Folks are really overthinking it. How bow something simple like this:
Tell me where to send my money. Let's get this thing down to Manhattan by Saturday morning!
How do we get a Farmageddon Trophy started?
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Tell me where to send my money. Let's get this thing down to Manhattan by Saturday morning!
So really we need someone to just sneak a pedal tractor into the game and give it to the winning team to hoist overhead?
The best way to get a trophy started would be for students at ISU to reach out to one of the leaders of their student body to have them reach out to the leader of the K-State student body so that they can talk about it. Maybe nothing comes of it. A donation of an old tractor from an alum of either school for the cause would help. I like whoever's idea that was.
Yes but make sure its a nice vintage one thats full metal like the old JD ones Perfect. All redone and shiny
Given the two fan/alumni bases, I can't believe it would take more than 5 minutes to find a tractor to be donated.
Zero minutes. My 1953 B John Deere. Needs A LOT of work though, which regardless, any tractor used as the trophy should be restored.
I have been leading the charge on a trophy for this game for years, I saw on twitter the idea of a crack that starts the tractor, winning team runs over and starts the antique tractor,
Uh......ya'll know how dangerous that can be?
...Like break someone's arm dangerous if you don't know what your doing.
Viability has no place on anonymous message boards.
On September 12, 1862, the state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling State Agricultural College and Model Farm (eventually renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology). The first land-grant institution actually created under the Act was Kansas State University, which was established on February 16, 1863, and opened on September 2, 1863.
Call it the Morrill Trophy or the Land Grant and just throw a tractor on a trophy mount that can be painted every year. Let the winner paint it with their school colors.
Call it the Morrill Trophy or the Land Grant and just throw a tractor on a trophy mount that can be painted every year. Let the winner paint it with their school colors.
It doesn't even need to be driven there. It could be moved on a flatbed between Ames and Manhattan and driven onto the field behind an end zone. If the home team wins it stays. If not, someone drives it back and we find a spot on both campuses to park it for the year on display. Each result can be etched into it if you like.
So you are saying this should be the trophy?
Bronzed Bag of Seed??
I like the plow concept for a trophy, since its a symbol of peace. A guy in Hutchenson, KS built one a couple years back:
https://www.hutchnews.com/news/20171212/local-farm-manufacturer-answers-call-of-farmageddon-trophy/1
It's corny, but guess what?
There's a hint in there that Schneider didn't want a trophy. He also put the kabosh to the neutral site event at Arrowhead. But he is out of the picture now. so it is high time to JFDI!!
https://www.hutchnews.com/news/20171212/local-farm-manufacturer-answers-call-of-farmageddon-trophy/1
It's corny, but guess what?
There's a hint in there that Schneider didn't want a trophy. He also put the kabosh to the neutral site event at Arrowhead. But he is out of the picture now. so it is high time to JFDI!!
It would be sweet if it was an actual tractor. Winning team's mascot would get to drive it out on the field for the next year's game. It'd get everyone riled up!
Get John Deere or whoever to donate an old-school - working 1917 tractor (The year both schools started playing each other.) Slap on some ISU and K-State logos on it, boom. Farmageddon!
1917 - Waterloo Boy
Get John Deere or whoever to donate an old-school - working 1917 tractor (The year both schools started playing each other.) Slap on some ISU and K-State logos on it, boom. Farmageddon!
1917 - Waterloo Boy
So this is the first I've heard about the possibility that the Vampire didn't want a trophy. That would actually explain a lot, because it's no-brainer otherwise. I hope this isn't the case because, obviously, Snyder carries a lot of weight there. And probably will even after his death.
