Vice President JD Vance dropped the School Soccer Playoff nationwide championship trophy throughout an occasion on the White Home South Garden on Monday, an ill-timed fumble that he laughed about later after it had unfold throughout social media.
Because the ceremony honoring the champion Ohio State Buckeyes got here to an finish, Mr. Vance — a former senator from Ohio who graduated from Ohio State — tried to raise the trophy, which was on a desk onstage.
TreVeyon Henderson, a Buckeyes working again, stepped in to assist, grabbing the highest of the trophy as Mr. Vance lifted the bottom. As the lads hoisted it off the desk, the trophy break up in two and Mr. Vance dropped the bottom, which fell to the bottom. Mr. Henderson and one other participant managed to carry onto the highest of the trophy.
According to the College Football Playoff website, the trophy consists of separate parts — a 12-inch bronze base, and a 26-and-a-half-inch trophy constructed from pure gold, bronze and chrome steel.
Collectively, the items weigh 50 kilos, the Ohio State Athletic Division said on social media in January, three days after the Buckeyes defeated Notre Dame to win the title.
After the bottom fell, some within the crowd gasped, whereas others laughed or clapped. Mr. Vance joked concerning the incident on social media.
“I didn’t need anybody after Ohio State to get the trophy so I made a decision to interrupt it,” Mr. Vance said.
It was hardly the primary championship trophy calamity.
In 2006, after the tennis star Maria Sharapova gained the U.S. Open, the highest of the trophy popped off when she hoisted it above her head. (The announcer Dick Enberg known as it her first unforced error of the evening.)
In 2011, because the soccer membership Actual Madrid celebrated its Copa del Rey victory over Barcelona, a participant dropped the trophy from the higher degree of an open double-decker bus, which ran over the cup and smashed it into pieces.
And two years in the past, at a ceremony after the Hungarian Grand Prix, the British racing driver Lando Norris slammed a bottle of glowing wine on a desk onstage, sending the trophy of the race winner, Max Verstappen, tumbling to the bottom.
