NPR’s Weekend Edition hosted A.J. Jacobs, an editor for Esquire and apparently a professional researcher, on it’s radio show Saturday morning to talk Stanley Cup history. Not winners and losers, but rather all the strange and wonderful (and sometimes gross) adventures the Stanley Cup has been on.
The Stanley Cup, the ultimate prize in men’s hockey, has been around since the late 1800s and was originally a fruitbowl, donated to the game by Lord Stanley. No one could have expected it to be considered the most recognizable trophy in professional sports more than a century later, and certainly no one anticipated the strange stops it would take on its journey.