Smith has Heisman Trophy shipped instead of taking it on plane

HellonWheels · Dec 12, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Troy Smith's Heisman Trophy was shipped home because airport security would not allow the Ohio State quarterback to take it on the plane Tuesday.

Smith wore a black leather jacket with the Heisman insignia on back when he arrived at the airport from New York, where he was presented college football's most coveted trophy.

Eddie George, the last Buckeye to win the Heisman in 1995, had his trophy get stuck in an airport X-ray machine, losing the tip of its right index finger and bending the middle finger.

"We decided to have it shipped. That's much easier. How times have changed. Eddie carried it on the plane and put it in the seat next to him," sports information director Steve Snapp said.

Smith said he didn't mind.

"No, because Eddie's finger got bent," Smith said. "I don't want that to happen to mine."

HPark1 · Dec 12, 2006

*yawn*

Whoson1st · Dec 12, 2006

HPark1 said:
*yawn*

:lolBIG:

buddyboy · Dec 12, 2006

had his trophy get stuck in an airport X-ray machine

oh brother, I don't know who should get slapped first, Eddie George for putting it in the x-ray machine or the security guard for asking him to do it.

any stories out there of the Stanley Cup not allowed on a plane?

Close your eyes and picture the Heisman Trophy. The form is easy to conjure, a graceful, fluid pose that is football past and football present in one dignified figure....The story of the Heisman Trophy is an american epic

As John Heisman himself once said, the Heisman Trophy "is meant to exemplify the grandeur of a thousand men."

Unless of course you try to jam it through the x-ray machine at the airport or have some cracked up hooker take a piss on it.