2 Changes I noticed at the Syracuse game

[PittPoker]

1)At the concession stands they finally let us keep the cap on the bottled water!! Yeah!!! For a few years the employees would open the water in front of you and keep the cap. They said it was because people were throwing it. That was a bizarre decision which I have never seen anywhere else in any other venue.

2)What happened to that "rocket" launcher that a few of the cheerleaders used to shoot the t-shirts into the crowd?? That's how I got one a couple of years ago. Now they just throw them and usually not very far.

 

[CentPaPittFan]

They used to do that at Heinz also regarding he bottle water...........stopped it a few years ago.
They said it was because it was easier to throw the WHOLE bottle with the cap on, not just the cap.

 

[Large Panther]

1)At the concession stands they finally let us keep the cap on the bottled water!! Yeah!!! For a few years the employees would open the water in front of you and keep the cap. They said it was because people were throwing it. That was a bizarre decision which I have never seen anywhere else in any other venue.

2)What happened to that "rocket" launcher that a few of the cheerleaders used to shoot the t-shirts into the crowd?? That's how I got one a couple of years ago. Now they just throw them and usually not very far.

Rocket Launcher was forced in to retirement by the nanny state that regulates that t-shirts can only be shot with an exit velocity of 12 mph and must be bubble-wrapped.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

Well, if the nanny state hadn't done it by regulation--given our litigious society--the "'slip and fall" "ambulance chasers" sleezy segment of the legal profession would have eventually produced the same result.

 

[Panther Holla]

1)At the concession stands they finally let us keep the cap on the bottled water!! Yeah!!! For a few years the employees would open the water in front of you and keep the cap. They said it was because people were throwing it. That was a bizarre decision which I have never seen anywhere else in any other venue.

2)What happened to that "rocket" launcher that a few of the cheerleaders used to shoot the t-shirts into the crowd?? That's how I got one a couple of years ago. Now they just throw them and usually not very far.

I keep a spare cap in my pocket for those times when the Nanny Staters remove them. Hate to risk spilling a $4 bottle of pop.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

2)What happened to that "rocket" launcher that a few of the cheerleaders used to shoot the t-shirts into the crowd?? That's how I got one a couple of years ago. Now they just throw them and usually not very far.

Roc has used the "launcher" at most of the games this season. I wasn't paying attention enough to it last night to see that he didn't, but if not that might have been the first time all season.