moving side to side instead of flailing arms during face offs?

[jaybert]

Was just reading an article on the NBA and free-throw shooting and came across this gem:

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As it turns out, Thunderstix and wiggling balloons have little effect because the brain simply blocks out random motion, like white noise on a television screen. According to this Slate.com article, fans behind the baseline would be better off moving side-to-side in unison.
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It'd be pretty damn cool if we could have people in the odd rows wear white, and the even rows to wear red and sway around when the other team is facing off in our direction.  Of course the chance of us actually doing that is next to none....but still a nice idea

[Trotsky]

A simpler derivative idea: when a Cornell player lines up a shot on the diagonal between the goalie and sections A, B, C, what if everybody slowly moved left, in the same manner and cadence of the Alma Mater?  I would think the regularly shifting background would be weird, if the shot was high (on a low shot, the background is the boards and the crowd is irrelevant).

I'm sure any decent goalie is programmed to lock in exclusively on the foreground, but a methodical movement, unexpected, on the periphery, might be distracting, whereas the Brownian motion of an unorchestrated movement is automatically filtered.

[Free11Skier]

[Q]It'd be pretty damn cool if we could have people in the odd rows wear white, and the even rows to wear red[/Q]

It'd be pretty damn cool if we could get people to wear red period.:-)