I wish Coach Saban had taken it when it was offered and immediately taken out a pocket knife and cut it wide open right there in front of them. Then toss it back and say, "Keep it, you earned it!"
That reminds me of something I once did. We had a teenager that was staying with us because of problems at home. This was a couple of years after Tennessee won the national championship, and he had a UT hat that he wore everywhere he went. I told him I would buy that hat from him so I could throw it in the garbage, and then I would get him a Bama hat instead. He agreed to a price, thinking he would take my money and then go get the hat out of the garbage and keep wearing it. Little did he know that my plan was to cut it up into little pieces before I put it in the garbage. That was the best $20 I ever spent on a hat.