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Coins at Football Matches
From: George Robert Blakley III <blakley@us.ibm.com>
When I was growing up in Buffalo, I used to go watch the Sabres play hockey. They weren't very good then, but they sure had mean fans. When a particularly despised opponent (e.g. the Boston Bruins) would come to town, fans would take coins from their pockets, heat them up by holding them in their hands for a minute or two, and throw them into the rink. Since the players wore lots of pads, helmets, etc..., it wasn't likely that a coin was going to injure a player by impact, but that wasn't the point. The point was much more subtle -- a warm coin will sink into ice a bit, at which point it becomes a significant impediment to the progress of an ice skate. Sometimes it took 30 or 40 minutes to get the pennies out of the ice and Zamboni the surface.
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When I was growing up in Buffalo, I used to go watch the Sabres play hockey. They weren't very good then, but they sure had mean fans. When a particularly despised opponent (e.g. the Boston Bruins) would come to town, fans would take coins from their pockets, heat them up by holding them in their hands for a minute or two, and throw them into the rink. Since the players wore lots of pads, helmets, etc..., it wasn't likely that a coin was going to injure a player by impact, but that wasn't the point. The point was much more subtle -- a warm coin will sink into ice a bit, at which point it becomes a significant impediment to the progress of an ice skate. Sometimes it took 30 or 40 minutes to get the pennies out of the ice and Zamboni the surface.
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