Meet the Sunset Park sculptor who creates fantasy football trophies
Fantasy football team owners will soon be gathering together in bars and in friends’ living rooms all over Brooklyn to conduct drafts to select players for their teams for the 2015 season. Unlike real NFL teams, the fantasy footballers don’t get the Vince Lombardi Trophy for winning the Super Bowl.
But they do get a handsome trophy. And for many of the leagues, the championship hardware is made right here in Brooklyn.
Sculptor Dave Mitri, who works out of his studio on 18th Street in Sunset Park, has handcrafted hundreds of championship trophies for fantasy sports leagues over the past few years and is expecting to do brisk business this season as well.
“Guys go crazy for these trophies. They become obsessed with winning them and beating their buddies, but in a good-natured way,” Mitri said.