Ah, yes.  The early days of the Big Red Freakout.  The cowbells were given
out twice in the early years.  I actually still have mine.  I recall leaving
the Field House after those games on Saturday night and my hearing had still
not returned to normal when I went to work Monday morning!!!

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Joe Makowiec <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At 9-15-2010 04:15 PM, Sara M. Fagan wrote:
>
>> I was checking out some pictures of SLU's freshman orientation on SLU's
>> website.  It appears that they give each freshman a cowbell.  I wonder if
>> they were told that the NCAA won't allowthem at hockey games.
>>
>
> As Far As I Know, the NCAA rule applies to giving away noisemakers *at
> games* as premiums.  Any rule about bringing noisemakers into the area is
> the decision of the individual arena management.
>
> Again AFAIK, this rule goes back some 30-odd years to when RPI gave out
> cowbells one year, and those horns which we now know and loathe as vuvuzelas
> another.  It apparently also applies to thunder sticks.  RPI gave those out
> a year or so back, although you could only get one at the gate.  Even so, it
> seems that a number of them had been draped over seat backs prior to people
> being admitted to the Field House.  (Mercifully, not a lot of people used
> them for their intended purpose.)
>
> Joe
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