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Great Divide Trophy

Post by bcats » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 pm

I am curious if anyone has an answer as to why the trophy seems to have a griz emblem on the bottom. If you have seen the video of when the trophy got tipped over while it was being pushed out for the Bobcat players you will notice the griz emblem on the bottom. Why is it there? It needs removed.


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Post by Prodigal Cat » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:14 pm

Its was just a sticker. Apparently its been on there for awhile but it took the incident for anyone to notice. I'd be pretty sure it isn't there anymore.


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Post by wbtfg » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:16 pm

Prodigal Cat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:14 pm
Its was just a sticker. Apparently its been on there for awhile but it took the incident for anyone to notice. I'd be pretty sure it isn't there anymore.
That begs the question.....can anyone here make an iron brand cat head?


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by bcats » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:18 pm

wbtfg wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:16 pm
Prodigal Cat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:14 pm
Its was just a sticker. Apparently its been on there for awhile but it took the incident for anyone to notice. I'd be pretty sure it isn't there anymore.
That begs the question.....can anyone here make an iron brand cat head?
I was thinking the same thing! :lol:


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Post by Bocephus » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:35 pm

bcats wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:18 pm
wbtfg wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:16 pm
Prodigal Cat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:14 pm
Its was just a sticker. Apparently its been on there for awhile but it took the incident for anyone to notice. I'd be pretty sure it isn't there anymore.
That begs the question.....can anyone here make an iron brand cat head?
I was thinking the same thing! :lol:
Probably anybody from Melstone.



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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by Joe Bobcat » Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:25 pm

bcats wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 pm
I am curious if anyone has an answer as to why the trophy seems to have a griz emblem on the bottom. If you have seen the video of when the trophy got tipped over while it was being pushed out for the Bobcat players you will notice the griz emblem on the bottom. Why is it there? It needs removed.
It was just a bush league action showing that program's sense of entitlement and lack of class.
The football gods took it upon themselves to expose it.


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Post by RICO CAT » Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:45 pm

Wasn’t it discovered someone had written “griz” on the bottom of the Sonny Holland Statue prior to it being mounted on its pedestal? Glad corrective action was taken.


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Post by AFCAT » Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:22 pm

There was some guy with an excavator flying a gris flag that was either working on the Bobcat stadium parking lot or the new indoor. The gris fans thought it was hilarious, but my take is that the guy could never find a job doing construction work at DumB, so he had to come to MSU instead. Now, that's hilarious.


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by tdub » Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:27 pm

Joe Bobcat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:25 pm
bcats wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 pm
I am curious if anyone has an answer as to why the trophy seems to have a griz emblem on the bottom. If you have seen the video of when the trophy got tipped over while it was being pushed out for the Bobcat players you will notice the griz emblem on the bottom. Why is it there? It needs removed.
It was just a bush league action showing that program's sense of entitlement and lack of class.
The football gods took it upon themselves to expose it.
It’s actually hilarious. That is great rivalry stuff. Completely innocent and fun. We’d all be laughing it up if it was a Bobcat sticker that was in Missoula all last year. Which I’m guessing one is already there in the old one’s place.


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by damnyoutuesday » Wed Nov 27, 2024 8:08 pm

tdub wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:27 pm
Joe Bobcat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:25 pm
bcats wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 pm
I am curious if anyone has an answer as to why the trophy seems to have a griz emblem on the bottom. If you have seen the video of when the trophy got tipped over while it was being pushed out for the Bobcat players you will notice the griz emblem on the bottom. Why is it there? It needs removed.
It was just a bush league action showing that program's sense of entitlement and lack of class.
The football gods took it upon themselves to expose it.
It’s actually hilarious. That is great rivalry stuff. Completely innocent and fun. We’d all be laughing it up if it was a Bobcat sticker that was in Missoula all last year. Which I’m guessing one is already there in the old one’s place.
That could be a fun little new tradition. You win, you put your sticker on the bottom



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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by GoldstoneCat » Wed Nov 27, 2024 9:39 pm

tdub wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:27 pm
Joe Bobcat wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:25 pm
bcats wrote:
Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:10 pm
I am curious if anyone has an answer as to why the trophy seems to have a griz emblem on the bottom. If you have seen the video of when the trophy got tipped over while it was being pushed out for the Bobcat players you will notice the griz emblem on the bottom. Why is it there? It needs removed.
It was just a bush league action showing that program's sense of entitlement and lack of class.
The football gods took it upon themselves to expose it.
It’s actually hilarious. That is great rivalry stuff. Completely innocent and fun. We’d all be laughing it up if it was a Bobcat sticker that was in Missoula all last year. Which I’m guessing one is already there in the old one’s place.
I agree. The kind of thing you should do in a rivalry.



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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by tetoncat » Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:56 am

Cool that they have the name plates out to 2100.


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by Catsrgrood » Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:39 am

tetoncat wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:56 am
Cool that they have the name plates out to 2100.
That’s the premise of the trophy, it will go back and forth to the winner for 100 years and whoever has won it more at that time gets it for good, I believe.



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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by wbtfg » Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:52 am

I don’t remember if I’ve told this story, but I was working at msu when the sculptor delivered the trophy to msu in 2001. I think I was one of the first 2 or 3 people to see the finished product.

We were still in the streak and I never would have guessed that we would possess the trophy for 12 of the first 24 years.

Crazy to think how far we’ve come.


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by BleedingBLue » Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:41 am

wbtfg wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:52 am
I don’t remember if I’ve told this story, but I was working at msu when the sculptor delivered the trophy to msu in 2001. I think I was one of the first 2 or 3 people to see the finished product.

We were still in the streak and I never would have guessed that we would possess the trophy for 12 of the first 24 years.

Crazy to think how far we’ve come.
Was the sculptor an elementary school kid working with play doh?



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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by tetoncat » Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:47 am

BleedingBLue wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:41 am
wbtfg wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:52 am
I don’t remember if I’ve told this story, but I was working at msu when the sculptor delivered the trophy to msu in 2001. I think I was one of the first 2 or 3 people to see the finished product.

We were still in the streak and I never would have guessed that we would possess the trophy for 12 of the first 24 years.

Crazy to think how far we’ve come.
Was the sculptor an elementary school kid working with play doh?
There is more detail up close. Vat and Griz heads, claws. Weight should be 406 instead of 306. Need to add a plate on bottom


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Re: Great Divide Trophy

Post by 94VegasCat » Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:50 am

tetoncat wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:47 am
BleedingBLue wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 11:41 am
wbtfg wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2024 10:52 am
I don’t remember if I’ve told this story, but I was working at msu when the sculptor delivered the trophy to msu in 2001. I think I was one of the first 2 or 3 people to see the finished product.

We were still in the streak and I never would have guessed that we would possess the trophy for 12 of the first 24 years.

Crazy to think how far we’ve come.
Was the sculptor an elementary school kid working with play doh?
There is more detail up close. Vat and Griz heads, claws. Weight should be 406 instead of 306. Need to add a plate on bottom
I have never understood why it doesn’t weigh 406lbs. Sure it’d be HEAVY but it would be relative.


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