I like the idea of fish, gophers, hats, sieves, brooms, etc. being thrown on
the ice, within reason, of course.  Fun, harmless, clean, traditional.  Aaron
Lindman's original post made it sound like the UND ice was covered like the
Florida Panther's rat thing.  It wasn't _that_ bad, although throwing garbage
(in particular pop cups, spilling liquid on the ice) is downright wrong.
 
My second problem with the my fellow UND fans' ice-litter is when stuff is
thrown at the opposing team during handshakes.  It didn't happen this year,
but I think this happened after the Gophers' series last year.
 
Yeah, Aaron, I agree that it was a little cruel to throw the live gopher out
there.  He was stunned and didn't move for 10 seconds, then his limbs slowly
came to life and he looked all right, although probably a little disoriented.
 
Kirk
 
 
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Aaron Lindman wrote:
 
>         My first gripe is the fact that a "live" animal either a gopher
> or rat was thrown on the ice after the sioux scored their first goal.
> That was accompanied by many other stuffed gophers and a few actual
> frozen gophers. After the second goal, more stuff was thrown (pop cans,
> etc)... What kind of obsession do Sioux fans have with throwing stuff on
> the ice? This has happened for years. My first year, over 50 powerade
> plastic bottles littered the ice after several games as well as many
> other soda cups and other various refreshment holders. Yeah, a warning is
> given, heck, even two like on Sunday against Minnesota, but is anything
> ever done? No, its not. Maybe I am just blind, but does this happen
> everywhere? After BU wins/scores or Michigan wins/scores or any other
> team for that matter, is the ice littered with garbage, dead animals,
> live animals?? I think that is pretty tasteless.
 
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