The Best Sports Trophies You Can Win
Sports heroes deserve distinctive trophies, not puny paperweights.
Good sports trophies are a tangible representation of all that hard work, while bad sports trophies are confusing, ugly, or both.
The final seconds of a professional championship match are emotional precisely because everyone knows the trophy presentation is coming next. It's a cathartic moment for fans and players alike.
Read on for three of the best professional sports trophies, and what you can learn from them when you're handing out trophies to your own club or organisation.
Premier League Trophy
This is the trophy with a golden crown. The World Cup trophy might be better known around the, well, world, but that trophy is a bit of a disappointment, albeit an 18-karat gold one. At a mere 14.5 inches tall, it feels too small for the moment.
The Premier League Trophy is 30 inches tall, more than twice the height. The crown adorning the top is both elegant and outlandish, as all the best trophies should be.
The ribbons on the handles offer a lesson in the importance of a personal touch, as they change colours each year to represent the team colours of the current champion.
Whether amateur or professional, the best football trophies will look a bit different to every team that wins them, and not just because of the names engraved on the base.
Wimbledon
This is a case where the trophies have been great for a while, even if other things needed adjusting.
2007 was the first year that the Wimbledon women's champion took home the same amount of prize money as her male counterpart.
It's hard to justify that kind of discrepancy, but when it comes to hardware, women have arguably been getting the better end of the deal, because they don't get a mere trophy; they get a sterling silver platter known as the Venus Rosewater Dish.
The ornate salver's mythological design is iconic, and on the men's side, the Gentleman's Singles Trophy is more traditional but still an example of a classic done right.
Equal pay and equal recognition are important, but that doesn't mean the awards must be identical.
Wimbledon has one of the best trophies in sports, but not quite the best. That honour belongs to a more frigid sport.
The Stanley Cup: The King of Sports Trophies
The best trophy in sports is sometimes also known as the hardest trophy to win.
No championship is easy to obtain, but the Stanley Cup requires players to put themselves through more games against more teams.
Oh yeah, and fighting is still legal in the National Hockey League, which just adds to the physical toll that a player's body must go through before they can raise Lord Stanley's nearly 3-foot-tall cup and take a victory lap around the ice.
The captain raises the trophy first, and in 2018, that honour went to Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals. At 32, Ovechkin had to wait a while to lay claim to the trophy, and the Capitals' franchise as a whole had to wait an even longer 43 years.
It's no wonder the victorious players do things like drink alcohol and eat cereal out of the cup. More than any other trophy, the Stanley Cup acts as a reminder that winning should be fun.
Honouring Your Home Team
Looking to honour your office, school, or team with sports trophies or other types of awards? We can help with that.
Such recognition can boost morale. It can also make everyone else who didn't win work a little harder to get to the top next time.
Contact us today to get started on a plan to recognize the champions in your daily life.
