An Ohio State fan created a mini-uproar earlier this week when he launched a Facebook page urging students to bring vuvuzelas to the Buckeyes’ November home game against Penn State. The Big Ten quickly reacted by announcing that -- thankfully -- the conference stadiums are a vuvuzela-free zone.
There was some buzz (Get it? See what I did there?) in the aftermath of the Big Ten’s announcement that the SEC would welcome the scourge of a vuvuzela plague with open arms.
Fortunately, that is not the case.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, associate commissioner of the SEC Charles Bloom has clarified that only traditional noisemakers -- i.e. Mississippi State cowbells -- will be allowed in the conference’s stadiums.
“Our policy allows for ‘traditional’ artificial noisemakers to be allowed in stadiums and played during specific times. Other forms of artificial noisemakers are not allowed. I do not believe a vuvuzela is tied traditionally into one of our institutions.”
In other words, the only blowing allowed at SEC games this fall will be the officiating and Les Miles’ end-of-game clock-management skills.
(Hope I didn’t type that last sentence out loud.)
