University of New Hampshire hockey fans have a very strange tradition of throwing a dead fish onto the ice after the team’s first goal.
The Wildcat’s website explains it best:
According to Bob Norton, a former UNH assistant coach, the fish-tossing tradition began in the early 1970s. “It goes back to when we were playing a Division II team, and our program had gone way past theirs. I remember (the UNH fans) threw out this little dinky thing and they called it a Division II fish. I guess they were trying to tell them they weren’t worthy of a first-rate fish.”
This tradition caught on as a local fraternity made it a ritual to throw out the fish after UNH’s first goal. The fish was used to resemble the visiting team, “fishing the puck out of the net.”
Over the weekend, a UNH fan was entrusted with the responsibility of throwing the fish, and he appeared to encounter some trouble with the task. The fish was so large that the kid struggled to get it over the plexiglass, and he failed not once, not twice, but many times. He even dropped the fish, sending everyone seated near him running.
The boy eventually managed to get the fish on the ice, but probably walked away a little embarrassed, and smelling fishy.
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