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Originally Posted by Patrick Flynn
Okay your right. I should refine my post. You will be kicked out of any professional event for throwing anything on the ice or field that is not, an official sponsored event. A teddy bear toss, or puck toss really? There's no connection between these and our paper airplanes, those are official team events they clear the ice and say go and everyone throws.
The rat toss or octopi? Those are actually traditions that have been around for longer than FIRST and the venue has official staff to clean up after them and they happen during a set time not disrespectfully during the nation anthem, or Deans speech.
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Throwing foul balls and homeruns back onto the field aren't "official sponsored events," yet they happen. Heck, they can make you
internet famous or
appear on SportsCenter. Additionally, the "rat toss" is not exactly a time honored tradition, and is certainly not older than FIRST. It happened first during the 1996 play-offs, and then once again in 2012. Nor does either the rat toss or octopi happen at a set time. As for the
national athem...
The point here isn't really the finer details of throwing stuff at sports game (other than it apparently isn't consoned aside of these many scenarios
). It's that your post was absurd fearmongering, and you know it. It's one thing to be opposed to throwing paper airplanes. It's another to invent some minutely possible doomsday scenario to justify that belief, and then substantiate it with half truths.