# When someone scores a hat trick in soccer, do the fans throw their hats? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 11, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847 "2014-04-11T03:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/21 "2014-04-12T05:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Given that the headgear in question would almost certainly be lost, did anyone ever, outside of movies, actually throw their hat in the air at a sports match? Sidney Crosby scores a hat trick on [hat night.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5EZ9E2kfw) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/22 "2014-04-12T17:07:35Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Given that the headgear in question would almost certainly be lost, did anyone ever, outside of movies, actually throw their hat in the air at a sports match? Yes, they actually do\*. It’s tradition. (Like I said, different organizations do different things with the hats. Here the Penguins have an affiliate with a local Boy Scout program called “Hat Tricks for Humanity”, where they take them and give them to charity) -Here’s one from [Alexander Ovechkin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYmhOhnUoLc) (watch out, it’s kinda loud) -[Zdeno Chara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDWUouVB54)’s first hat trick. [Sidney Crosby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAefFiVk3TU) gets a “natural” hat trick (three goals uninterrupted by anyone else scoring) [Taylor Hall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IlNvbplPPU)’s first. Hat tricks aren’t exactly rare, but they are uncommon. If you want to throw a hat, I suggest buying a cheap, generic one and keeping it with you at games. \*And yes, people have been known to throw [other things](http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1523837-craziest-items-thrown-on-the-ice-during-an-nhl-game). (I believe someone once threw a sex toy) Hockey fans are crazy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/23 "2014-04-12T18:45:40Z")
That reminds me of that goalie (in football) who had a video leak out showing him taking it up the ass, his girlfriend fucking him with a strap-on. During games that season, the guy was bombarded with dildos. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/24 "2014-04-12T19:09:20Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > That reminds me of that goalie (in football) who had a video leak out showing him taking it up the ass, his girlfriend fucking him with a strap-on. During games that season, the guy was bombarded with dildos. [Possible photographic evidence.](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/40.jpg) Yeah, the lack of customary headwear-chucking notwithstanding, it’s not like soccer fans are above throwing stuff onto pitches, as a general idea (ranging from mundane stuff like [toilet paper](http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4fba67e6ecad04fb73000000/rowdy-french-soccer-fans-threw-flares-on-the-field-during-a-game.jpg) or [shoes](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/270.jpg), to slightly less so, like [pig’s heads](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/10.jpg) or [live pigs](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/50.jpg)). ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/25 "2014-04-12T19:25:06Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > Most people in football stadiums don’t wear hats to begin with. Hockey arenas tend to be a lot colder. Perhaps you are unaware that most of the world’s professional leagues play in the winter and spring. You might also be unaware that it can get quite cold in many parts of Europe in the winter, even in England, from time to time. It gets very cold indeed in some countries with active, strong (as least relatively strong) professional leagues, such as Russia. So, yes, you can see plenty of examples of hat wearing if you watch professional soccer in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/26 "2014-04-13T00:28:13Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > [Possible photographic evidence.](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/40.jpg) > > Yeah, the lack of customary headwear-chucking notwithstanding, it’s not like soccer fans are above throwing stuff onto pitches, as a general idea (ranging from mundane stuff like [toilet paper](http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4fba67e6ecad04fb73000000/rowdy-french-soccer-fans-threw-flares-on-the-field-during-a-game.jpg) or [shoes](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/270.jpg), to slightly less so, like [pig’s heads](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/10.jpg) or [live pigs](http://www.ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/news/2010/thrown-football-pitch/50.jpg)). Well, in Detroit they throw octopi on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/27 "2014-04-13T05:22:58Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, in Detroit they throw octopi on a regular basis. The Florida Panthers fans throw rubber rats(after a player killed a rat with his stick in the locker room during the 1996 playoffs) ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/28 "2014-04-13T19:54:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I don’t believe it’s even possible for an entire team to score 3 goals in one game in a soccer (football) match, let alone one player. I’m being snarky, of course, and I don’t know how to Google it, but there’s probably been only like 6 soccer players in the history of the world who have scored three goals in one professional game. > > Prove me wrong. Leo Messi scored 8 hat-tricks in one season. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/29 "2014-04-13T23:41:30Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Perhaps you are unaware that most of the world’s professional leagues play in the winter and spring. You might also be unaware that it can get quite cold in many parts of Europe in the winter, even in England, from time to time. It gets very cold indeed in some countries with active, strong (as least relatively strong) professional leagues, such as Russia. > > So, yes, you can see plenty of examples of hat wearing if you watch professional soccer in Europe. Thanks for treating me like a complete fucking moron. Perhaps \*you \*are unaware that when people say things like ‘tend to be a lot colder’ this should not be taken as an absolute statement that hockey arena’s are always colder. In addition, perhaps you are unaware that most football leagues in place that get cold (but not England) take a short break during the winter, _because it gets too cold to play_. You may also be unaware that if there’s snow on the ground, games get cancelled. So, yes, although there have been examples of people wearing hats to stadiums, they’re still less common than they would be in hockey arena’s, which TEND to be colder. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847/30 "2014-04-14T01:44:20Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > So, yes, although there have been examples of people wearing hats to stadiums, they’re still less common than they would be in hockey arena’s, which TEND to be colder. Hockey arenas aren’t very cold for the fans. At least modern ones aren’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-scores-a-hat-trick-in-soccer-do-the-fans-throw-their-hats/685847.md?page=1)