University of New Hampshire: Fish tossing
Seriously, what’s with hockey fans and the need to see sea creatures on ice? UNH fans throw a big-ass fish onto the ice after the team’s first goal in each home game. In the 1990s, it cost the team a penalty, but Dick Umile, head coach from 1990 to 2018, didn’t mind. “It’s the Maine weekend, and the cops won’t let the kid in with the fish,” Umile once told the school’s website. “I’m in the office before the game, and the students come to get me. So I go down there, get the fish from the cops, and we’re walking in with the fish in the bag. The kids say, ‘But coach, we’re going to get a penalty.’ I say, ‘Don’t worry about it. We’ll kill the penalty. Just throw the fish.'”