5 The Stanley Cup - forget about putting it on the mantelpiece

Supersize me baby, because this is one of the big daddies of trophies, symbolizing ice hockey supremacy in North America. A lot of us have trouble seeing the puck, but you can't miss the 15kg Stanley Cup.

It started off at about 18cm high and now it's just about tall enough to start going to school at 90cm.

The reason: winning coaches, players, management and club staff all get their names engraved on it. Naturally, there are more than a few engraving errors and who is to say that they have found them all.

Players from the champion club need a minimum of 41 games in the season to get their name on the trophy, while the canteen manager must churn out at least 10,000 hot dogs with mustard to make the cut (okay, I made the second bit up).

At this rate, the Stanley Cup might block out the sun around the turn of the next century although the cup has endured at least one operation to stunt its growth.

Footnote: One bloke has had his name misspelled on it five times.