World Cup 2006 Blog

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Cover Your Ears! Vuvuzela World Record Attempt Tonight Posted: 23 Jul 2009 09:43 AM PDT The Confederations Cup is over. And the 2010 World Cup is still 11 months away. But the vuvuzela stories just keep on coming. First there was Austria banning the little plastic horns for some very unconvincing safety reasons, and now an army of vuvuzela blowers will be making a world record attempt. The vuvuzelatasic world record attempt will take place tonight at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, where South African teams Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs will play to decide who faces Man City in the final of the Vodacom Challenge. The good people from Guinness World Records (who somehow combine drinking with accurate fact checking) will be there to adjudicate while as many fans as possible for a 30 second duration. It’s not clear what the final total of simultaneous hornblowers will be, but apparently the first 20,000 through the gate will receive a free instrument (corporate sponsored of course). So the number should be 20,000, plus whoever brings their own. If you’re part of the crowd that wishes death to the vuvuzela, you’ll want to get as far from Port Elizabeth as humanly possible this evening. But if, like me, you think the little plastic horn is basically harmless and can actually sound very pleasant in the right hands… then you should probably still flee in terror. Because there’s now way 20,00+ vuvuzelas blowing for 30 consecutive seconds is going to sound good.

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