National Pastime Radio: Vuvuzelas

June 21, 2010

From this week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me:

Carl Kasell: “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”

Peter Sagal: That was Carl imitating a sound everybody, or at least World Cup soccer fans, know all too well. What is it?

(Correct answer by the call-in contestant)

Sagal: …Just last week on this show we had to explain to you all what a vuvuzela was a cheap plastic horn beloved by South African soccer fans. Now every body knows what it is an wants one just to snap it in half. Players are blaming losses on the noise the vuvuzelas [make]. The BBC is offering a vuvuzela-free feed of the games.

Now, people say that it is the most annoying fan behavior possible, but fans from other countries — in true football fashion — are rising to that challenge. Greek fans have brought litl chalk boards they can scrape with their fingernails. Spanish fans are all cracking their knuckles. American fans have topped them all: we’ve brought in Joe Lieberman.

Did you hear that someone tried to bring in a vuvuzela to Yankee Stadium? He was stopped and thrown out. There you go: something too obnoxious even for Yankee fans.

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