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Once again Twitter comes to the rescue. One sensitive blogger compares the sound to a goat in heat. Vuvuzelas certainly do create a large sound and have generated huge controversy during the World Cup, hosted by South Africa. There is even a website called BANvuvuzelas.
But FIFA, organizer of the World Cup, has refused to shelve the instrumentthat has become popular over the past three decades. The FIFA website says the horns were based on the kudu horn, blown to summon African villagers to meetings. The Chinese are making a fortune from the manufacture of these plastic trumpets; they provide 90 per cent of the ones sold in South Africa during the World Cup matches. Ninghai Jiying Plastics Manufacturing Co. In Britain, David Broughton, who works in the electrical distribution business, is the man or rotter, depending how you see him, who introduced vuvuzelas to the U.
Even Prince William attempted to play one when he was at a football training session for children in Botswana. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. You can try looking at places that sell CFL stuff. CFL fans have been using those for as long as I can remember. The dude who used to cut my hair said that he hated watching CFL specfically because of those horns. It's not a kazoo and it's different from the CFL horn I am pretty sure lol at the picture also. Got an iphone?
Some sports writers are asking that they be banned as you cannot hear the fans when happy or sad. One writer said it was ruining the atmosphere of the games, in a British newspaper, and I tend to agree with him. I'd be outta there real quick if I had to listen to the constant buzzing. They really are awful. It was actually Fox Sports who wanted them banned. It's funny I've never seen these in Toronto. They were huge in Montreal at Expos games back in the day.
The world cup head officials had a meeting sunday and addressing the horns.
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