JD Vance abandons Ohio State's championship trophy during White House celebrations
Vice President JD Vance gave up the College Football Playoff Championship trophy in a game Monday on the South Lawn of the White House, an inappropriate turnover, and he laughed at the late stage he spread on social media.
When the awards ceremony ended in honor of the Ohio Champions Buckeyes, former Ohio Senator Mr. Vance graduated from Ohio State University, he tried to lift the trophy that was on stage.
Treveyon Henderson, a Buckeye, ran around and stepped in to help, and Mr. Vance grabbed the top of the trophy as he lifted the base. When the men hung it on the table, the trophy was divided into two points, and Mr. Vance fell off the base and landed on the ground. Mr. Henderson and another player managed to stick to the top of the trophy.
According to the College Football Playoff website, the trophy consists of separate components – a 12-inch bronze base and a 26-half-inch trophy made of 24 carats of gold, bronze and stainless steel.
Ohio State University's athletic department jointly said on social media that the Buckeyes beat Notre Dame to win the championship three days after.
After the base fell, some in the crowd gasped while others laughed or applauded. Mr. Vance joked about the incident on social media.
“I don't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy, so I decided to break it,” Vance said.
This is not the first championship trophy disaster.
The top of the trophy popped up when she hanged it over her head after tennis star Maria Sharapova won the U.S. Open in 2006. (Announcer Dick Enberg called it her first unmandatory error of the night.)
In 2011, when football club Real Madrid celebrated its cup that beat Barcelona, a player dropped the trophy from the upper floor of an open double-decker bus that ran to the cup and crushed it to pieces.
Two years ago, at a ceremony after the Hungarian Grand Prix, British racing driver Lando Norris slammed a bottle of sparkling wine on the table on the stage, sending the race champion's trophy, Max Verstappen to the ground.
