Talk:Vince Lombardi Trophy

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Is ther a no throphy for the years (1920-1965) ?

Not a Vince Lombardi Trophy. I assume there was an NFL Championship trophy, though a quick scan revealed no article about it on Wikipedia. Danthemankhan 05:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

There isn't a separate article. The pre-AFL-NFL Merger trophy was called the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy; that name in Wikipedia redirects to List of NFL champions, which is limited to pre-merger championships. Alas, there isn't much about it online other than the Wikipedia article and an article about it on the Green Bay Packers website (a reference for the Wikipedia article).

Like the Stanley Cup, the original Thorp Trophy was passed from team to team; a smaller replica was made for each team to keep. Alas, after the Minnesota Vikings won it for the last time in 1969--ironic since their owners originally helped Lamar Hunt found the American Football League before the NFL wooed them away with an expansion franchise, only to lose the last pre-merger Super Bowl to Hunt's Kansas City Chiefs--the original was lost. When NFL Films needed pictures of the Thorp Trophy for a 2007 documentary, they used the Packers' 1936 & 1939 replicas in their Hall of Fame. That led to the irony that the main online reference for the Thorp Trophy is the website of the team for whose coach its main replacement (the Lombardi Trophy) was named. (It wasn't until many years later that the George Halas Trophy was created for the NFC champion.) --RBBrittain (talk) 17:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

"and takes approximately four months and 72 man-hours to create"

How does that work? 72 hours is only nine work days? --Sajjen 22:40, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Understand that this is a large silver trophy. The silver must be melted several times, both to refine it to sterling grade (92.5% silver, 7.5% alloy--mostly copper) and to actually cast it; the cooling time doesn't count as man-hours since no one is working on it. The final casting, in particular, must be cooled carefully to prevent cracks in the trophy; that's probably a large part of the total time. Most of the 72 man-hours are likely for the artisans who polish and engrave the final trophy. --RBBrittain (talk) 17:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Former Receivers of the Trophy

Was there a reason to add a "Former Receivers of the Trophy" table which basically is redundant and repeats the content already on the List of Super Bowl champions. Such data should really go on that page. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 07:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)