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Roll Tide: Alabama's broken 2011 trophy sells for $105G

When Carleton Tinker, the proud father of University of Alabama long snapper Carson Tinker, accidentally knocked over the Crimson Tide's national championship trophy, who knew he was actually tripling its value?The Waterford crystal, football-shaped trophy, awarded for winning the 2011 college football title, was valued at $30,000, and insurance covered it. But someone scooped up the broken shards, placed them in a bowl and the school auctioned them off a year later at its annual celebrity golf tournament auction on Sunday, fetching a staggering $105,000, according to a tweet from TideSports.com's Cecil Hunt .Last year, after Tinker accidentally knocked the trophy off its base at the storied school's practice facility, he told ESPN.com he was at a loss as to how it happened. New recruits were picking up the eight-pound award, no doubt wondering what it might be like to help the school win more of them"I'm not really sure how the thing fell off," Tinker said. "I didn't walk away with it...

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