When the winner of the Heisman Trophy was to be announced Saturday night on ESPN, the hefty bronze statue that was to be lifted in joy was not the original one first awarded in 1935.
That one is in an undisclosed, locked location, insured for $1 million. It no longer faces bright lights and reverent fans. Yet as recently as 2008, its handlers confessed that it had been secured somewhere in Battery Place in Lower Manhattan before it was moved to its permanent home at the nearby Sports Museum of America. But the museum shuttered quickly, and the trophy headed back into seclusion.