With the way trophies like this become part of the celebration for the winning team each year in so many sports codes. I am surprised this type of accident doesn’t happen more often.
Very true, it has probably been dropped hundreds of times, and this split is just the end result of years of drops.
That’s the weird thing… This is a completely new piece of wood, the old one was so battered from all the celebrations over the years that they remade it with very similar wood, and took the metal pieces off and transferred them over.
I’ve not seen a high enough res picture, but it almost looks to me like it split clean, so either bad wood, or if it was from laminated pieces, a bad glue job.
Interesting! Would the wood be replaced regularly or would that have been the first time?