CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Cyclones have modified the group identify to the Corn Dogs on X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter.
The identify change comes after the group set a document for donations in Saturday’s Teddy Bear Toss night time recreation, and a sure stuffed corn canine went viral on-line.
Here’s how Teddy Bear Toss works: Fans in attendance on the Heritage Bank Center convey a stuffed animal to donate. When the Cyclones rating its first purpose, everybody throws their stuffies on the ice.
The new document set was 13,319 stuffed animals collected, together with one very particular 5-foot tall corn canine.
So about that corn canine: Usually folks throw their stuffed animals instantly on the ice with as sturdy of a heave as they’ll make. In the curious case of the corn canine, it was handed across the 2nd-biggest crowd in Cyclones historical past (14,258 followers) earlier than lastly making its method on the ice. It even re-emerged within the crowd after the Teddy Bear Toss was cleaned up.
It’s not completely recognized what was so particular about this corn canine, aside from its peak and spiffy purple bow tie, however it introduced all the crowd collectively, sharing within the pleasure of donating a document quantity of stuffed animals. It does seem that as a substitute of its supposed donation vacation spot, the corn canine motion was so sturdy, that the Cyclones stored it, and have put it to work around the ice, as shown on the team’s Instagram stories Monday morning.
The ‘Clones did lose to Toledo, 4-3, however the corn canine gained our hearts.
The group presently sits in ninth place within the Western Conference ECHL standings with the mid-way level within the season arising quickly. The group’s subsequent home recreation is January 19.
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