Football is full of interesting trophies.
The Michigan Wolverines and the Minnesota Golden Gophers play for a jug. You know, the jug band kind of jug. The aforementioned Gophers play the Iowa Hawkeyes for the chance to take home a bronze pig, named for a real former pig called “Floyd of Rosendale.”
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