Vuvuzelas Make Brief Appearance At Yankee Stadium

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If you've been watching the World Cup then you are well aware of the incessant buzzing noise that sounds most similar to a swarm of blood-thirsty mosquitoes just seconds away from feasting on your brains. If you don't achieve deafening drunkeness within the first half, you are in all likelihood hoping for the aforementioned scenario to occur. So just imagine how fun it would be if that noise were happening at Yankees games—because surely there's nothing like experiencing the sound of the vuvuzela in real life surround sound. Luckily, the NY Post is reporting we are way too smart to let that happen.

The paper reports that when Yankees fan Anthony Zachariadis blew one of the plastic horns at Tuesday night's game, the stadium's security team confiscated it immediately. Oddly, the security guards received some boos for the move, which means the masses might actually be for public use of vuvuzelas. These are likely the same people that made getting iced a thing.

The 27-year-old Zachariadis told the paper how he pulled off getting the horns in to the stadium, saying, "I hid them in my shorts to get into the stadium, and when I pulled out the horns, the whole place went nuts. Phillies fans would walk by and we would blow it in their ear." Yes, New York, this man is out there, armed with more "plastic bloody horns," as fake Hitler calls them.

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By Jen Carlson in News on June 17, 2010 10:32 AM

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r1b2

Just shove them up the blowers' asses.

Angelheaded Hipster

pompous douches who say 'imperialist prats' really exist? that blows my mind

Mordicai

I just popped my collar for yah, bra. Best hope I don't see you on the streets & ice you, bra!

henryhamilton

Sorry, but I just don't understand the mentality of a person who can blow on this thing for hours. It seems to me a 6 year old would grow bored in five minutes or so. I think. Therefore I am. Has become I annoy, therefore I am.

Jamie McDonald

Not to go all Thomas Friedman on y'all, but I feel like the vuvuzela encapsulates what the post-Western world is going to be like: loud, obnoxious, and African.

longacre

Probably not...Asians will subjugate Africa just like we did, they already started.

soxinthecity

All this time, I had assumed the vuvuzelas would make their 1st stateside appearance at an Angels game in Anaheim.

chuzzlewit

its all fun and games until someone gets one stuck in their uvula. or their vulva.

Kitty Graves

horny vulvas ftw

Meribor

Blow the vuvuzelas if you want, but blowing them in people's ears is not only rude, it can cause hearing damage. In some circumstances, blowing a loud horn in a stranger's ear can actually be considered assault. Classy move, Zachariadis. You're guaranteed to maintain the Yankees fans' reputation for being arrogant, belligerent asses.

ides_of_march

Plastic horns aren't biodegradable. Get the green police after the horn blowers.

Mordicai

America: "yeah, we mostly don't care about the World Cup & those of us who do mostly just started, but hey! Screw your cultural traditions, we find it annoying, because we're imperialist prats."

You know what I find annoying? All the shouting & people slapping their open palms together & stomping during a sporting even. So annoying! Slap slap slap, WOOOHHH YAAAAHHHH just shut up already. Oh wait, audience participation is part of the fun? Oh I get is, okay, how about you stop complaining that other people do it different then, huh?

IgnatiusPabulum

"Cultural tradition"? Yeah, vuvuzelas weren't even introduced at South African soccer games until the 1990s. That's like saying playing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" is an American cultural tradition at sporting events.

Mordicai

I mean, you're right though, it is just me & the FIFA president who think we shouldn't try to Westernize an African cup. What does he know, anyhow.

Mordicai

Uh, whatever, Who Lets the Dogs out is totally an American standard & I'd bleed red, white & blue for it. Along with We Will Rock You &...other...sports songs.

valeriob

I supposed you're on point with this-

Especially given the fact that you didn't bother to do any research of your own to find out that the vuvuzelas you are talking about were invented in 21st century and that they very little to do with African cultural tradition.

Thanks for keeping with imperialist prat standard.