Fans toss 52,000 stuffed animals on the ice during a Hershey Bears minor league hockey game to celebrate the team scoring. The toys are collected and donated to charity.
Fans toss 52,000 stuffed animals on the ice during a Hershey Bears minor league hockey game to celebrate the team scoring. The toys are collected and donated to charity.
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One of my favorite sporting traditions.
Love it. I know they give hat-trick hats to the kids too. Hockey has traditions that the NFL would never allow.
/Chaotic Good/
Thank god it wasn’t a shutout.
Ends too soon! I wanted to see the ice covered a foot deep in stuff animals
Tossing one actual badger out there would be a great joke. 🦡
WOOHOO YEA BABY *soft toys land silently*
People in the front rows getting rained on by animals that didn’t reach the ice.
What it would be like to be a kid in the front row, just getting buried by an avalanche of underthrown stuffed animals. Absolutely awesome.
Not that it matters but the record is 67,309 teddy bears. Happened in January also by the Hershey Bears
That’s stuffie mistreatment. Straight to jail
As a Charlotte checkers fan, I’m sick of Hershey beating the hell out of us, but it seems like they are a very well run organization that supports the hell out of their community. Good on them
I love this! Fun for fans. Great for kids/charity.
“And here coooooomes the teddy bears”
Let’s Go Bears!
I agree that this is a beautiful thing.
…and the non profit operations manager in me images the immense amount of work necessary, to transport, sort, and attempt to distribute these stuffed animals. There is no way a single organization has the client base (this is a good thing) to make this happen which means you are coordinating with tens of other non profits for a variety of uses from children’s hospitals, toys for tots orgs, shelters, ect.
How do we get people to wad up and chuck 20s onto the ice? They are the best at helping people out of whatever shitty situation they fell into.
Ok, the grinch will be quiet now. People are beautiful and it should be celebrated.
And here comes the pretzels! I mean bears.
Calder Cup Champion Hershey Bears. Fixed the title for ya
and here come the pretzels
Would love to see a still camera video of the stuffed eruption
I like that one player taking a knee in the middle of it, looking around and saying ” I ain’t even mad “
I took my daughter to a Firebirds game the other week when they had theirs. She had fun, but then had tears.
“I hope the stuffies didn’t get hurt.”
People in the front rows having to put in a shift to get them on the ice
ECW! ECW! ECW!
What happens if the opposing goalie has a shutout
This looks like so much fun.
That’s awesome
Bears games are honestly some of the most fun I’ve ever had at sporting events.
Not a big hockey fan, but I’m a Hershey Bears fan now. Friggen awesome!
One of the best traditions in sports
I love the thought of watching professional hockey then just getting pelted with a shit ton of teddy bears
Looks like fun.
This is awesome. Nice work
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Legit question what happens if the goalie is on fire and blocks them all? Do you still throw bears?
Did every fan throw 5 stuffed animals?
Have they ever been shutout on Teddy Bear toss night?
The cameraman is awful
what charities make use of 52,000 stuffed animals?
Wouldn’t want to be the team that shuts them out on bear toss night