Football trophy still has positive concept

While the new Cy-Hawk trophy unveiled at the Iowa State Fair appears to have little to do with football (and since has been targeted for replacement), it still has a positive concept.

Since it already has been made, perhaps a good use of it would be to annually require the losing team to take it home and display it, and even require the losing team to donate 100-300 hours of community service to a family-oriented Iowa project. They could do Habitat for Humanity or work in a community garden to help feed the people of Iowa or any of a myriad similar things.

That would be, as sponsors had said, “aspiring to do something above a football trophy. It would celebrate Iowans and the characteristics of Iowans.”

It turns a negative into a positive and is a win-win concept for all of Iowa. And the actual game winners would still receive the newest, more traditional football trophy to take home, the one still to be designed.

LaSonda Sue Sipe-Moreno

Quasqueton