This makes the Air Force Academy’s B-2 Nacho Bomber look like child’s play.
PublishedMarch 2, 2026 8:40 PM EST•UpdatedMarch 2, 2026 8:40 PM EST
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Since the dawn of time, or at least since people started watching live sports, mankind has been eating food out of sport-appropriate paraphernalia.
We all know about baseball games serving chicken tenders and ice cream out of team-branded batting helmets, and even the Romans used to eat out of gladiator helmets at The Colosseum (don’t fact-check me on that last one).
The Detroit Red Wings decided to up the ante, and introduced a chicken finger basket that makes the Air Force Academy’s B-2 Nacho Bomber look like child’s play by comparison.
A chicken tender Zamboni bucket rocks so hard.
Is it going to cost an arm and a leg? Yes.
Is it worth the price tag? You bet your ass it is!
Apparently, this isn’t the first time the Red Wings have tried to put food items in a Zamboni, either.
Back in 2023, Detroit gave out commemorative Zamboni gravy boats for Thanksgiving.
As far as I’m concerned, a Zamboni is one of the coolest things to eat food out of.
It certainly blows the commemorative batting helmet out of the water, too. It’s right up there with drinking a beer out of a plastic baseball bat.
Unfortunately for the Red Wings, they have a bit of a checkered past when it comes to Zambonis.
In 2022, Detroit fired longtime Zamboni driver and octopus wrangler, Al Sobotka, for reportedly peeing in a drain at Little Ceasars Arena.
Sobotka fired back a few years later and said he was just fired for being old, claiming his unfortunately timed leak was a cover-up for age discrimination.
With all that bad blood between the hometown team and their old Zamboni driver, I’m surprised to see them going with a themed giveaway that could conjure up such unpleasant memories.
Either way, I love the idea of a Zamboni food basket, and I think more teams should and will start to catch on to the craze.