The foamy rubber tubes NBA and NCAA teams disseminate among fans in the stands under respective baskets at each end of the floor--with the expectation that beating two crazy-colored "noodles" together in cacophonous non-unison will distract a highly skilled player from making a free throw.
Idiotsticks aflail, the hometown crowd jeered then roared when the opponent's top player choked a one-plus-one.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)