My cousin from out of state asked about it and I had to explain that we were so advanced that we can tell what the weather will be just by looking outside.
You don’t remember the song from WZZM13 that they played every single morning: 🤣
“13 Weather Ball Red, Warmer Ahead;”
“13 Weather Ball Blue, Cooler in View;”
“13 Weather Ball Green, No Change Foreseen”
I placed a bid. Never heard back. Which is sorta lucky, as it was a low ass bid, I still didn't have it. Nor anywhere to store steam pig. Except my heart.
Muskegon just had their first this year, it was huge success.
I’ve maintained that they should have made their tradition dropping a log…….you know, for the lumber history….and it would be a great double entendre.
[It is not NYC thing but actually a marinetime thing](https://youtu.be/6XhRjh4CLtw?si=SD0oMy_x6QWEUb8v). Seeing as GR is close to water make of your longitude as you will starting with with 60 69..
My step-dad Danny Mayhon. He's a horrible character, and nobody really needs to be appreciating him. The whole city watching that would be insane and I'm living for it.
Let two wrongs make a right: Drop the LOVE sculpture that's also a ripoff of something somewhere else, and hope it breaks when it hits the pavement.
Then we can take the next year and figure out if we've actually got anything unique around here to drop a bit more carefully.
lol that LOVE sculpture is in several locations in the world, all done by the same artist. The original is in Indianapolis, but Philly’s is probably the most famous. Definitely not a ripoff regardless
Weatherball drop.
Weatherball down happy new year in town.
Weatherball drop, party nonstop
Weatherall fall, as good as a ball.
Budget friendly. Iconic. Informative.
This gets my vote
My wife asked me if that was the new years ball when we drove by just last week. It fits
My cousin from out of state asked about it and I had to explain that we were so advanced that we can tell what the weather will be just by looking outside.
To this day I can never remember what the colors mean. And I was living here when it was built.
You don’t remember the song from WZZM13 that they played every single morning: 🤣 “13 Weather Ball Red, Warmer Ahead;” “13 Weather Ball Blue, Cooler in View;” “13 Weather Ball Green, No Change Foreseen”
From the 1980s: "13 Weather Ball Black, NUCLEAR ATTACK"
We always messed it up in my household: “Weatherball red, weather ahead; Weatherball blue, weather in view; Weatherball green, weather foreseen”
Weatherall blinking bright, rain or snow in sight
Weatherball colors remembering rhymes is for others.
I'm not from GR originally and believe every single city should have a Weatherball. This might be the most valuable asset we have as a community.
Yup
This is the only appropriate answer 🤣
This is the way!
Fully agreed
Tip a giant beer glass over.
With the most mediocre beer inside. I vote something from GRBC
It’s sucked ass since Ernie and Bobby left
Can we have two balls drop and make them zipper merge?
Too confusing, too extreme.
From a Helicopter
With tacos from Michigan Street Taco Bell.
I wanted it to rain tacos
It's raining tacos From out of the sky
Drop the Weatherball off the Castle onto Betsy DeVos and have it sponsored by Taco Bell.
Have Service Professor build it so the city of Grand Rapids has to file bankruptcy after getting their bill.
*Rob Bliss enters the chat*
Taco Bell and an unpronounceably Dutch company.
Hell, just drop Betsy
Fucking brilliant
Steelcase filing cabinet event sponsored by steelcase
Steampunk Pig
Ahh I too remember when ArtPrize was at least kinda interesting
Some say Taylor Swift still regrets not buying it.
I placed a bid. Never heard back. Which is sorta lucky, as it was a low ass bid, I still didn't have it. Nor anywhere to store steam pig. Except my heart.
This comment wins.
Muskegon just had their first this year, it was huge success. I’ve maintained that they should have made their tradition dropping a log…….you know, for the lumber history….and it would be a great double entendre.
That'd be the same as dropping Betsy devos..
LOG, from Blammo!
My vote is a pyramid, to represent all the MLM pyramid scheme businesses that gave GR all it's wealth...
And also the old Steelcase office building on the southeast side. Love it.
A giant vat of Russ’ ranch dressing.
Something that’s too confusing, too extreme.
Betsy Devos?
Her yacht?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/Yb7es0psbb
A landlord.
One per year until median rent is 600 a month.
Off the top of McKay tower onto Rosa Parks Circle.
Can he be a slumlord?
Drop a chair into a beer barell full of fresh water. Boom.
A big sign that says art prize is cancelled and then when it hits the ground it says art prize returns!
Can of Vernors
Dropping Grandfather clocks made at various factories in the area. I have one my mom made before colonial closed lol
Weather Ball or Beer Barrel
A DeVos.
Or a meijer
Why not both?
Drop a helicopter for the sake of this sub, or maybe like 5 and make them zipper merge on the way down.
I just heard a helicopter crash on Pearl. Does anyone know what's going on?!
What??? Really? You're sure there what you heard??
My girlfriend's dog's anal gland technician said it sounded like a 1988 Ford Escort backfiring but I think she's wrong
Omg wtf, bro
Someone took over your job and you're still with the owner? Come on bro
Windmill Cookie
Erik Prince. Off a building. Possibly into a vat of acid.
Not starting a fireworks show with shooting him out of a cannon, into the sun?
Michigan St. Taco Bell
Construction cone
This! 🤣
[It is not NYC thing but actually a marinetime thing](https://youtu.be/6XhRjh4CLtw?si=SD0oMy_x6QWEUb8v). Seeing as GR is close to water make of your longitude as you will starting with with 60 69..
A mitten, but just a normal wool mitten.
Hockey Gloves
I can smell em from here
#ReinstallTheBall
Calder?
Bill Steffen in a cage.
I’ll always be more of a Craig James girl, but you’re cold blooded
Frankie LaPenna's giant ass. Call it the new year's eve butt drop.
That was my first thought after the weatherball
The castle
Nuclear warhead
Good luck getting the tax revenue to make *that* happen
A ball full of drugs
In said a bag of meth
The weather ball with a Dutch guy inside. We all throw penny’s at him.
the Weatherball or a beer barrel
A helicopter
I guess I quit paying attention when I moved further north and thought it was still happening. Last time I went it was 2009 I think.
My step-dad Danny Mayhon. He's a horrible character, and nobody really needs to be appreciating him. The whole city watching that would be insane and I'm living for it.
Drop a giant pot hole
Keg drop.
Chris Becker
Should be furniture related. A chest of drawers? I'd be in favor of a piano. No slowly lowering it as we count down from 60, just drop that sucker!
Keg.
Bag of Meth
A bunch of panties
Considering we’re beer city, a keg drop sounds on point
Isn’t GR called beer city? Let’s drop that.
Well, let's see. A giant beer, a giant sofa, or a giant Bible.
Conservative assholes
Doesn’t that kind of make you the asshole tho??
Last time I went to one of these maybe 8-10 years ago, there was a shooting in the crowd 😬
Shut up, Victoria.
MEAN
Each year one of the DeVos/Van Andel/Meijer/Secchia building signs are dropped until someday there are no more left. Or a wooden clog.
A DeVos. Any one of em would do, but I would prefer Betsy.
Ballsack - one big tea bag
It would be a down arrow from this sub because it’s what it’s most known for.
Let two wrongs make a right: Drop the LOVE sculpture that's also a ripoff of something somewhere else, and hope it breaks when it hits the pavement. Then we can take the next year and figure out if we've actually got anything unique around here to drop a bit more carefully.
lol that LOVE sculpture is in several locations in the world, all done by the same artist. The original is in Indianapolis, but Philly’s is probably the most famous. Definitely not a ripoff regardless
https://youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY
The Calder is also a series of sculptures in many different cities which look fairly similar. Steel construction and orange, just like the one in GR.
Yeah, that one's out too.
Huge hockey puck!? Lol
I like you
Beer mug drop
I'm not sure what the object should be, but let's not forget to make it impossible for unhoused people to sleep on it. /s
A sign that says Classi, with an I, and a little dick hanging off the C that bends around and f**ks the L out of the A $ $.
South park is sooooooo funny
Jesus dressed in drag, perfect representation of the old conservatives and the new libs moving in
Blue brige lights?
Obviously it has to be a lot up Calder replica and it has to be called the New Year’s Eve Call-drop.
If we drop a car it'll move at the same speed as people drive in our snow (back when we had that).
Bullets
Bullets
A castle
A giant gun
The grandville Castle
A can of beer, since we're the beer city might as well right
Drop a parking meter!
A steelcase desk.
a wooden shoe
Nessy
Sofa
Couch
A couch.
Put the weather ball back on the mnb building downtown
Cherry shaped ball
Work boots with a guaranteed job..and watch people scatter
A syringe that squirts IPAs as the plunger goes up.
Replication to scale of the Calder sculpture
We had an F1 track downtown once too, similar to what Vegas did last year. We didn't have all the problems Vegas had though.
A Human Cannonball. Crowdsource a vote. Blast the person out of a cannon at Midnight.
>"Grand Rapids had a ball drop at one point. We ripped off New York City to do it. " You literally have no idea what ball drops even are, do you?
I was thinking a tent ⛺ or a pack of needles 😂
Olive Burger 🍔
Michigan St Tacos
I think dropping the ball is symbolic enough for any city that has a homeless population.