Remembering THAT Leafs moment: Waffles
5 years ago
How far we’ve come. While the Leafs have now become the team of choice in Toronto, it wasn’t that long ago where we had fans throwing all sorts of things on the ice.
In the 2010-11 season, for whatever reason, the projectile of choice became something your grandmother (or at least my grandmother) didn’t believe: waffles. The supposed reason was to symbolize the team “waffling” on the ice, or in other words, having an extremely uninspiring performance. It became commonplace for waffles to hit the ice at Leafs games, six years before Millie Bobby Brown would make Eggos cool again on the set of stranger things.
Here’s one such incident from December 2010, which was at least the second time in a little over a week that the incident happened.
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If you look closely, you’ll find Ron Hainsey on the ice here as a member of the Atlanta Thrashers, an NHL team that no longer exists.
In this article, we get an explanation from the waffle thrower in this video above.
No one’s really sure why waffles are the chosen symbol of Leaf fan frustration, but waffle-thrower Joe Robb says his emotions got the best of him.Mr. Robb was removed from the Air Canada Centre during Monday night’s game against the Atlanta Thrashers after he threw a box of Kellogg’s brand Eggo waffles over the boards, halting play. He was subsequently charged with mischief.“I didn’t intend for it to hurt nobody and maybe I shouldn’t have done it while the play was going on,” the 31-year-old Oakville resident told The Globe and Mail Wednesday. “I totally love the Leafs and that’s pretty much my hobby, to watch the team play.”
Well, maybe one day Nazem Kadri will be able to eat waffles out of the cup.
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