Dear Editor,
A recent article in the Daily Universe has brought up a concern about what is an appropriate means of celebration at the BYU football games. Apparently hurling razor sharp tortillas with the acceleration of at least 9.8m/s2 is not looked well upon by the administration and by some of the students. In the future Los Tortilleros might get carried away and join up with the Salsa club, and then we'd have a real mess at the football games.
Heaven forbid should anyone think of hurling grapefruits whenever a BYU player crosses the goal line. However, in light of the recent BYU loss due to the apparent lack of airborne tortillas, it is evident that the football team needs to be showered from on high by some sort of energy exciting food product in order to play successfully.
We suggest that the BYU fans use the product General Mills has created for just that purpose - Cheerios. Cheerios has many advantages over tortillas.
First, they have large rounded safety edges.
Second, they are lightweight. No one would get a bruise should a Cheerio be hurled in his direction.
Third, Cheerios are small and would easily be crushed to powder should any make their way onto the playing field.
Fourth, as far as smuggling is concerned -- a handful of Cheerios in a fan's pocket would surely go undetected.
Finally, Cheerios have the same ability to be recycled as tortillas but in a more practical way. At the end of each game, those in charge of cleaning the stadium could put the Cheerios in Ziplock bags and give the bags of Cheerios to Primary children. We know the Primary children would eat them because we've seen them do it in sacrament meeting many times.
Our suggestion, therefore, is that we do away with tortillas and go to the more BYU friendly means of celebrating touchdowns - Cheerios.
Neal Peterson
Kansas City, Mo.
Travis Austin
Snowflake, Ariz.