The greatest trophy in college sports finally found a home on Saturday night.
Forget about the Land Grant Trophy. The National Championship Trophy can get out of here. Not even the axes or jugs or seals you may hold dear from your beloved rivalry games can compete with the inaugural Ninth Island Showdown’s golden pineapple.
UNLV beat Hawaii, 31-24, at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday. In doing so, they earned the right to celebrate victory by hoisting a giant golden pineapple and call it their own. Look at the Runnin’ Rebels go get a first look at the humongous trophy they earned on Saturday night.
UNLV wins the pineapple! pic.twitter.com/QFg7JZbDij
— Tyler Bischoff (@Bischoff_Tyler) November 5, 2017
You can actually hear a player cry “What is it? What is it?” a few times. This is understandable, for the pineapple is an exotic fruit. He’s probably only gotten a piece or two if he’s ever ordered a fruit salad as a side. Most of those fruit salads are full of honeydew or some other kind of melon. Which is no one’s favorite fruit.
Did SpongeBob SquarePants live in a honeydew under the sea? Do they make trophies out of mellon? No, they do not. They enlarge and gild pineapples and celebrate them in all their proper glory.
