The long-standing practice of peanut vendors at Dodgers Stadium is now dangerous Act.
Anyone who has seen a Los Angeles Dodgers match meets Roger Owens, a stadium classic known to customers in the theater's peanut bag throwing routine. It may have been.
Showmanship fanfare is now enthusiastic after 79-year-old Owens was told to abandon his signature nut delivery while walking down the park aisle during the game.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Owens was informed by his boss's Levy Restaurant that Peanuts Toss was conceding at Dodgers Stadium that it was safe. rice field. Danger for fans.
"I'm very sad about this," Owens told the Times. "They (the audience) have time to see it coming. It's not the bullets that go straight. I want to make sure the thrower catches the peanut bag."
Like Dodgers, Owens became a stadium attraction during the game. Peanut vendors are featured in TV shows and movies.
Owens said he wasn't going to fight the toss ban and was always responsible for his routine with the goal of ensuring that fans received snack products.
TMZ reported that thepeanut throw ban was most likely enacted to prevent spectators from becoming beans by mistaken throws. It's also not the first time Owens has faced a ban, TMZ said. Peanut vendors faced similar bans in 1976 and 1985, but these decisions were later withdrawn in response to fan backlash.
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