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WATCH: Wisconsin QB Graham Mertz’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl Trophy redemption

In the latest rendition of the broken Duke’s Mayo Bowl Trophy saga released by Wisconsin football, Badgers’ quarterback Graham Mertz comi…

In the latest rendition of the broken Duke’s Mayo Bowl Trophy saga released by Wisconsin football, the Badgers staff tries to keep QB Graham Mertz away from the new hardware.

Related: WATCH: Graham Mertz reveals the real story behind the broken Duke’s Mayo Bowl trophy

This latest video is following the infamous accident that occurred in the team celebration after the Badgers’ 42-28 victory over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, where Graham Mertz inadvertently broke the trophy while dancing with it in the locker room. Videos of the incident quickly went viral and were even featured on SportsCenter.

In this newest video, Mertz is told by the Wisconsin Director of Football Program Operations, Pete Weiden, to not to touch the replacement trophy, but he decides to pick it up after Weiden leaves the room to answer a call. This video has a much happier ending than in December, with Mertz hoisting up the trophy, faking dropping it, and redeeming himself by setting it safely in the trophy case:

WATCH: Graham Mertz reveals the real story behind the broken Duke’s Mayo Bowl trophy

Wisconsin football quarterback Graham Mertz discussed the true story about the breaking of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl trophy last night…

It’s starting to sound more and more like I was right about the events that famously followed the 2020 Duke’s Mayo Bowl.

Follow along and stay with me here.

Back on December 30, the Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 42-28 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. After the game, as you know if you were anywhere near the internet that day, quarterback Graham Mertz dropped and shattered the trophy when the team was dancing in the locker room.

The replacement for the shattered glass football? A bottle of the sponsor’s mayonnaise duct-taped to the top of the trophy stand.

This story made waves on all national outlets following the game, as who doesn’t like an old-fashioned trophy breaking during a middle-of-the-pack Bowl Game.

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Well, on a FOX College Football live stream during the National Championship last night Mertz discussed the trophy breaking and gave the honest truth about what happened.

“Honest truth of what happened,” Mertz said. “After the game, the Duke’s Mayo people told us the trophy is cracked, it came from England so we are going to send a new one.”

So the trophy was already deemed replacable, the game was at noon on a Wednesday, Duke’s Mayo isn’t necessarily the most famous brand and something was needed to put the Bowl Game and the brand on a national stage.

After the game I appeared on LockedOnBadgers with site editor Asher Low and laid out my theory about the trophy breaking saga.

I’m just going to finish with this: as time has passed the stories are becoming more and more linked.

 

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