All Those Balloons

[JoeCallahan]

I'm sure most of you saw all the balloons that were hanging around during the championship.

Unfortunately there was a giant white one right in front of my team's view of the red upper goal and another one in front of blue's score on the board, so we didn't get to see the whole of the matches on the field anyway.

Now since we unfortunately had to leave early, I have to ask a pretty stupid question.

My friends and I noticed (with binoculars) that on the sides of the balloons were wires going from the string holding it on to a small black strip on the side of the balloon. We also noticed a small antenae-type-thing near the connection between the sting and the bottom of the balloon. Our guess was that they planned to blow up the balloons.

My question now, since I didn't get to see, is did they? I had heard they filled them with smoke and confetti, (my friend said he had seen one blow up earlier that day and when light shone directly on the balloon you could see stuff in the bottom) but I haven't gotten any first-person accounts of what happened.

(Note: Whether or not they blew up, we only assumed that's what they were going to do and really had nothing to go on other than the strange wires/antenae on the side of the balloons.)

I was just thinking if they did, that's a sight I'd be sad I missed =P