First, calm down. I'm working on my comic and that will be up sometime tonight.
Second, isn't it about time we make an official rivalry trophy with our fellow engineering rivals. Im all for the commonwealth cup and black diamond still existing in the background, but all recent hokie memories will recognize that Georgia tech has become one of our official hate rivals. The games are always close even when they shouldn't be and the game for the most of our ACC tenure has impacted the coastal division winner.
I find UNC/Duke/Pitt (Miami is it's own level of hate that cannot be contained in a trophy) obnoxious but no other coastal loss drives me up the wall like Georgia Tech. I drew an example of what a rivalry trophy could be last season and I'm curious to see what others have created/come up with.
It wouldn't be hard to get our 3D printer labs on campus to print something and bring it to Fuente/Babcock (better than that UConn-UCF BS)
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Love it!
Yep! I think we can get down with this
Well done mate! If someone could make a gif of Beamer smiling and swinging the trophy in his arms back and forth I may just die 💀
I like this. We could run it through TSL/Reddit/ and whatever fucky website GT fans use to discuss their miserable football team - to get a bunch of support, and make our own "official" trophy. Like the $5 bits of broken chair trophy! I love it, man. Good idea.
I have not had enough coffee, I read that as TRL and my brain went to:
"Carson Daly here with your top 20 rivalries of the week..."
Then if went to commercial.
"This week, on ACC's THE CHALLENGE!"
God I miss old MTV
Great minds think alike. I think I posted this exact idea 4 years ago or more here on TKP!
Here's the problem. The company that now owns TecmoBowl IP rights is not interested in licensing the name out freely. They want to be paid a ridiculous 250k per year. How do I know? Because I contacted them and tried to get it.
So I was thinking a trophy with a 8-bit football figure would be cool. Just need someone to design a 3D 8-bit football player in the Tecmobowl style.
250k a year? Jesus.
They were not friendly. I even had my buddy that is good with Yakuza connects introduce me. All they saw were dollar signs when I mentioned American football.
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I appreciate the bits and pieces of a view into your life we get here and there every now and then
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lmao
prince harry adjacent
That's why I added the "H". Is that not enough to get around the copyright? Or too much likeness I presume lol
well......technically, that is why I added the "H" when I came up with the name TECHmo Bowl many years ago, but to answer the question no it's not enough. Also usage of the SNES cartridge is a larger issue with Nintendo.
EDIT:
Here is my old post back in 2013 with basically the same idea for a cartridge trophy. I originated the name in the early, early, early days of TKP based off a gif Joe posted.
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2013/september/23/techmo-bowl-2013
Great minds though. Love it!
Also usage of the SNES cartridge
Give me your gamer card, sir.
YIKES! shit that is a bad slip up. I'll leave it up for general ridicule as punishment. +1
OMG a post that only has two comments after 5 years. WOW. What a strange time it was back then...
But was one of the comments about either mayonnaise or utensils?
The design patent to the NES cartridge would be expired by now. Anyone should be able to use the design. One cannot get a copyright or trademark to the cartridge itself. (Although an artistic rendering of a NES cartridge could get copyright protection, but that would be super limited in scope and nearly impossible to infringe.)
TECMO BOWL trademark still exists and is active. Having a TECHMOBOWL would be a liability mess without a license. $250K a year would be an insane amount. An advertising deal would be a possible alternative, if there was mutual agreement for one.
(None of this is be construed as legal advice, but I hope on a forum that no one would think it is.)
Can we ask Bo Jackson for his endorsement?
plaid material IMO
Bo knows 8-bit video games...seriously he does, he grew up during that time
He's also the best player in the game
All that goes through my head is the family guy clip https://youtu.be/98tX2Y9X_yA
I believe there is a minecraft-to-3d printer plugin out there, right?
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Good catch, fixed
I feel like you are my personal Bedford handbook on TKP. FixItFelix
We PhD scientists are known pedants. Not sure which begat which, though.
This just reminded me that we need to be on T watch tonight and tomorrow. Everyone on campus keep your eyes peeled.
I've been saying we need a Golden Sliderule Trophy for many years. Would look better than a Tecmo Bowl trophy, IM(ns)HO.
Somebody with better photochop skills would have to make a trophy, though.
What about Dial Caliper?
The Golden Dial Caliper Trophy doesn't have the same ring to it.
How dare you
I dare very well.
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I mean they stole a "t" one year for christ sake...make the trophy a giant effing T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/virginia-tech-georgia-...
You may actually be a genius.
A giant T, the winning team paints in their school colors.
Plot twist: you don't get to actually win the giant T, but have to successfully steal it from the trophy case of the rival...
I think this was posted before by someone else as well. I liked the idea at first but then I thought... wait a minute, if it's a "T" trophy then it's an annual celebration of their successful theft of our "T" which is no bueno. If we stole their "t" as well then yeah, sure then I can get behind this.
Instead of just a T, make it "TECH"
FACT: I am a genius!
Which reminds me, is anyone guarding the signs around Lane?
When I saw this topic, this was exactly my thought. Maybe it will save having to guard all the major signs on campus from having the T stolen if the game is fought over a giant T. Unfortunately, from the Georgia Tech side, this is something they try to do to all their opponents so I am not sure they would want to give that up just for a single trophy.
Perhaps a fitting trophy would be a poop emoji in a GT jersey, and us stepping in it.
Is the piece of poop in a bed?
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I hope they arrest whoever tries it again and throw the book at them.
Is this /s?
I know it's theft but damn, that's a great, relatively harmless college prank. I begrudgingly have to hand it to GT, very well played. Let the kids have their fun. I just wish VT would start lifting a "T" from them as well.
That would be difficult, to say the least. They do it so often to themselves that all the Ts on their campus are on lockdown.
Yeah, "Stealing the T" is a Georgia Tech tradition, so I have mixed feelings about making the rivalry trophy out of one of their traditions. BUT we're also the only two Tech schools in the ACC.
We could make it the "Greatest T in the ACC" trophy.
It could also be a giant Teacup (with the same trophy name)
make the trophy a big "W"
"You can have the 'T', so long as we get the 'W'"
That's a cool idea, but the internet's in me tell me that there will be an athlete that tea bags themselves into that cup...
Also this one is also hilarious...
I thought you were referring to the post above you.
The trophy should be a knee brace in honor of our D-line who has to sacrifice their legs to play them.
This is what I came here to post. All the legs for you!
The 8 Bit football player in the Heisman pose with just "TECH" on the jersey and a copper color (mix of orange and yellow) would be great.
Someone with some decent 3D printing chops could make this happen.
Why not go with a Georgia Tech Jersey, with the name crossed out in Blank Pen, with "Glennon" hand written on the back?
I like this. I really like this.
Annnnd my profile cover has been updated for this week. Thank you sir
Ditto. Swat 'em all!
what about the "Yes I love Technology" bowl? with a gold Kip Trophy?
Slightly OT, but when we beat Miami this year, I vote we get to take their Turnover Chain and then throw it into the fires of Mount Doom. The gnarled metal remains shall be our trophy and they will be required to retire the Turnover Chain for eternity.
We can never let them come back.
I know what it is you saw, for it is also in my mind.
keep it secret
keep it safe
I love this idea and want it to happen, but as Fernley points out above, actually enshrining the TechmoBowl moniker isn't going to happen for stupid legal reasons. And that's okay. I actually like the idea of a colloquial name for the rivalry. So much of college football is corporate marketing now, having something organic that the Mothership can't even mention on the air is cool.
However, I do think we need a trophy. Someone mentioned a slide rule, not sure how tongue in cheek that's supposed to be, but I love the idea of embracing the shared engineering pedigree/nerdiness of the two schools. I think a golden T square would be an awesome trophy.
Like this, but golden.
Get it? A T square for the True Tech. It's quirky enough to be in line with some of the more eccentric college football trophies. Plus it kind of pays homage to the whole stealing of the T thing.
Bronze Rotor
I'm also bias to the mechanical engineering department, so let's go with both teams trying to lift an Intellipak after a big win.
At this point, we might as well go with a robot
Story on RoMeLa here
Goddamned millenials. Need a trophy for everything. Back in my day, the only trophies you got for playing ball were bruises and scars. /s
This deserves leg after leg after leg after leg after leg...
We need more trophies because drinking from one is refreshing:
That better be craft beer in there
It's a Rail
My liver just twitched.
Whoever last won the game gets to be referred to as "Tech". Hopefully Virginia Tech can beat Tech this year.
Welcome to life in my family. The last two years have suuuuuuucked.
Loser is referred to as either Vah Tech or Gah Tech for the rest of the year.
I was about to comment that this trophy should be heavy on engineering - like a solar powered trophy that could autonomously fly itself from Atlanta to Blacksburg (maybe back, unlikely) when it changed hands, or at least a trophy that had a bunch of gears and whatnot to represent the engineering aspect of our rivalry.
But then I clicked on your link and had no more suggestions.
Can you rope in the 2007 missing jersey game into the Tech challenge trophy? Winner of the Tech bowl gets to provide alternate (within reason) jerseys for the opposing team (maybe 4 players) the following year.
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