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When the Yankees banned iPads early this season, it was an eyebrow-raising decision that confused most people. Their decision to ban vuvuzelas this week is probably one that won't attract such scorn. The vuvuzela, for those who remain somehow uninformed, is the incredibly loud plastic horn being blown non-stop during the World Cup in South Africa that seems to be annoying pretty much everyone except the people blowing the horns. FIFA has elected to allow fans to blow the horns during the World Cup despite complaints from fans, players and TV viewers, citing the fact that the games are in Africa and the vuvuzela is part of African soccer culture. It's not part of Bronx baseball culture, though, and the New York Post story linked above has stories of the horns already being confiscated from fans in the bleachers.
There will likely be a swath of vuvuzela bans in the States in wake of the complaints coming from the World Cup. Is that overkill since most teams already allow cow bells, Thunder Stix, and drunken fans with vocal chords into stadiums? The difference here is that none of those other in-game annoyances cross the 120-decibel threshold of ear pain that the plastic horns create.
The prices at the new Yankee Stadium are already insane, so it seems fair that fans shouldn't have to pay extra in terms of permanent hearing loss.
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