Ohio State visited the White House on Monday to commemorate its national championship victory last season, and after President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and coach Ryan Day all publicly praised the Buckeyes on the South Lawn, Vance went to hoist the national championship trophy.
But he dropped it.
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Well, he dropped half of it.
As Vance tried to lift the trophy off a table onstage, the base separated from the top and fell to the ground. Buckeyes star running back TreVeyon Henderson was helping support the top as Vance went to lift the full trophy and managed to catch and secure it.
Vance, an Ohio State alum and a former senator from Ohio, joked about the drop on X after.
“I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it,” Vance said.
I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it https://t.co/rS3Vw3BdO6
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 14, 2025
The College Football Playoff national championship trophy is described as “two integral but separate pieces” on the CFP website. The top, made from 24-karat gold, bronze and stainless steel, is 26 1/2 inches long, with the design rising to form a football. The 12-inch base is bronze with a black patina finish.
“The trophy was created to be raised in celebration of the highest level of team achievement in college football,” the website says.
Fortunately for Vance, he is not the first person to have a trophy mishap. Here is a look at some other trophy calamities.
Florida’s BCS title trophy smashed by recruit
Florida coach Urban Meyer hoists the BCS title trophy in Miami, Fla., on Jan. 8, 2009. (Photo: Joe Rimkus Jr. / Getty Images)
In 2008, a prospective high school tight end from Tampa destroyed Florida’s $35,000 BCS championship trophy, named The Coaches’ Trophy. The prospect’s tour of campus went through the school’s football facilities, where he saw former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s Heisman Trophy. He leaned to take a photo with it, accidentally knocking the nearby title trophy to its death.
That prospect? Orson Charles — who played four NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns from 2012 to 2018, and instead committed to Georgia even after the Gators staff joked Charles had no other option than to commit to Florida after the incident.
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Staying in Gainesville …
An honorable mention in Gators’ trophy-smashing history goes to former men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan, who in October 2006 fooled the Midnight Madness crowd — those who came to kick off the team’s first official and public practice after their 2006 national championship season — by dropping a replica crystal trophy. The message? New team, new season.
Florida went on to win the back-to-back title in 2007, securing another very real championship memento.
Alabama’s BCS title trophy shattered by father of long snapper
Nick Saban holds the championship trophy from the BCS title game on Jan. 9, 2012 in New Orleans, La. (Photo: Tom Hauck / Getty Images)
In 2012, Nick Saban and his then-Alabama team had their 2011 BCS title trophy shattered by a player’s father who was admiring it on A-Day, Alabama’s annual spring game. Carleton Tinker, father of then-long snapper Carson Tinker, told ESPN at the time he was “not really sure” how it happened.
Carleton said he watched several Alabama recruits pick up the trophy to see what it felt like. So he did, too.
“I didn’t walk away with it,” Tinker said then. “I set it back down on the stand and turned to walk away, and had my back away from the trophy when I heard it tumble.”
Carleton offered to work off the $30,000 of destruction within the athletic department on weekends. Alabama declined and quickly thereafter ordered a replacement.
Canadian Hockey League championship trophy comes apart
The Spokane Chiefs hoist the shattered Memorial Cup on May 25, 2008. (Photo: Claus Andersen / Getty Images)
The Spokane Chiefs, representing the Western Hockey League, won the Canadian Hockey League’s Memorial Cup in May 2008, which promptly broke after the team captain Chris Bruton tried to hand it off to a teammate Trevor Glass.
The Chiefs defeated the Kitchener Rangers 4-1 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, Ontario, to earn their soon-to-be two-part trophy.
Copa del Rey trophy goes for a ride under team bus
Real Madrid’s team celebrates in Madrid on April 20, 2011. (Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP via Getty Images)
In 2011, the Copa del Rey trophy was run over by a bus after Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos dropped it from the upper level of the double-decker bus. The cup — which came home with Real Madrid after a 1-0 win over archrival Barcelona thanks to an extra-time goal by Cristiano Ronaldo — was perched on Ramos’ head and slipped from his hands after he appeared to try to jump up and down with teammates.
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Hungarian Grand Prix trophy meets untimely demise
The broken winners trophy of the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary on July 23, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo: Qian Jun/MB Media / Getty Images)
After the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2023, Lando Norris slammed a bottle of champagne on a table on the Formula One Podium, knocking winner Max Verstappen’s handmade porcelain trophy to the ground in pieces.
Norris would later apologize for the mishap that destroyed the award, which took nearly six months to make, but he initially brushed off the accident.
“Max just placed it too close to the edge. It fell over I guess. Not my problem, it’s his,” Norris said when first asked.
However, the Briton was more contrite when the question was posed again before the next race in Belgium.
“I know how much it means to the Hungarians and part of their culture … and I did apologize to Max,” Norris said. “I know I made a couple of jokes about which maybe I shouldn’t but I do feel bad for (him).”
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