The turnover chain is the best thing that’s happened to Miami football. For so many years the University of Miami football team has been lifeless and boring but a ridiculous oversized chain has brought the U back to national forefront.
During tonight’s huge Notre Dame-Miami game, the U busted out the turnver chain three times against a stingy Irish offense time has only turned the ball over seven time prior to tonight’s game.
TURNOVER CHAIN!!!! #UMvsND pic.twitter.com/c9JlLZn87d
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TURNOVER CHAIN TIME AGAIN!!! pic.twitter.com/S0t3vQ06KH
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PICK SIX !!! BRING OUT THE TURNOVER CHAIN AGAIN!!!! pic.twitter.com/1XIbCB8AYb
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The idea of the turnover chain originated two weeks before the season started when Miami cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph asked a local Miami jeweler, if he would make a rope chain players could wear after forcing a turnover.
The idea then proceeded to evolve into a large Cuban chain style necklace with a huge “U” emblem.
The initial thought was a rope chain that players would get to wear after forcing a turnover.
“Naw, man,” chimed in Wilfork, recently retired after a 13-year NFL career. “We got to do the Cuban link, AJ!”
The consensus among the three was a collective “Hell yeah!”
“In Miami, what are we famous for? We’re famous for the Cuban chains,” Machado says. “But we need to add a little something to it.
“So we did a big U charm — orange stones, green stones in there to flash it out.”
The chain is made up of a 36-inch, 2.5-kilogram, 10-karat gold chain, with 900 orange and green sapphire stones arranged in a “U” that is 6.5 inches wide.