The Stories behind Championship Trophies

The Stories behind Championship Trophies

It is every athlete’s dream to hoist the championship trophies. For their whole athletic career, the championship trophies are their only and everlasting objective of struggle.PACKERS JERSEY The trophies belong to the strongest and best teams and players. Of course, the championship trophies are extremely precious and meaningful.

But have you ever been curious about the story behind the trophies. What do these trophies mean in different sports?
The Vince Lombardi Trophy
This first NFL trophy went to the Super Bowl's winner with the earliest NHL jersey in 1967. Tiffany and Company also created this trophy.

The trophy took on Lombardi's name after the legendary head coach of the Green Bay Packers sudden death in 1970. It's just less than two feet tall and depicts a regulation-sizedPACKERS JERSEY The trophy is made of sterling-silver and weighs just less than seven pounds. The Lombardi Trophy is said to have a value of $25,000.
The Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy
The NBA's championship trophy made its debut in 1978. It was originally called the Walter A.

Brown Trophy, after former Celtics owner whose name had been on the league's previous championship trophy. In 1984, the league renamed the trophy to honor outgoing NBAPACKERS JERSEY commissioner Larry O'Brien. The trophy is around two feet high and depicts a basketball going into a net.

The Tiffany designed trophy is made of sterling silver coated in 24 carat gold and weighs over 14 pounds. According to the NBA, each trophy is worth $13,500.
The Stanley Cup
The NHL's Stanley Cup is named after Frederick Arthur PACKERS JERSEYStanley, the 16th Earl of Derby who was the Governor General of Canada from 1888 to 1893.

In 1892 he decided that Canada's hockey teams needed to wear the specific
and vie for a trophy. So he gave 10 guineas to purchase a silver bowl made in Sheffield, England.
The trophy was originally called the Dominion PACKERS JERSEY Challenge Cup, but Stanley's name quickly attached itself to the bowl.

What might be surprising to fans is that the cup wasn't very big. The bowl Stanley purchased was only seven inches tall and 11 inches in diameter. The trophy went to the top hockey team in Canada, but in 1910 it began bouncing around from one professional hockey league to another. In 1926 the young NHLPACKERS JERSEYhad adopted the trophy on an informal basis by 1947 it became the official spoils of a championship.
The MLB first gave out this trophy in 1967. The St. Louis Cardinals won the first Commissioner's Trophy by beating the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. Ever since then, the winners of the PACKERS JERSEYWorld Series have received one of these monuments. The design has undergone a few minor changes over the years, but this one probably has more symbolism than most trophies. The ebony base has 30 miniature pennants; each represents one of the 30 clubs. The flags encircle a giant silver baseball with 24-carat vermeil stitches that is engraved with latitude and longitude lines symbolizing the world. The 30-inch trophy weighs nearly 30 pounds and is worth an estimated $15,000.