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Atlanta Braves foam tomahawks cause hour-long traffic delay

Mike Oz

There’s a worry in the Atlanta area that SunTrust Park, the new Atlanta Braves stadium that opens Friday, is going to be a nightmare for traffic. It will be, if the Braves can’t keep their foam tomahawks out of the highway!

On Wednesday morning, traffic near the stadium on I-75 South was delayed for almost an hour. Why? Because boxes of Braves foam tomahawks fell out of a truck and spilled onto the highway. “The debris blocked two left lanes for almost an hour,” was the official word from the Georgia Department of Transportation, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A Braves foam tomahawk, not spilled onto the highway. (Getty Images)
A Braves foam tomahawk, not spilled onto the highway. (Getty Images)

The unofficial, pessimistic word: It’s a sign of things to come when the Braves open their new $672 million stadium, about $400 million came from local taxpayers. You know, the same people who were stuck in traffic when those foam tomahawks spilled onto the highway.

Good news is, you can actually run over foam stadium souvenirs. You can’t exactly speed past a $400 million tax bill.

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Mike Oz is the editor of Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at mikeozstew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!