Pick your favorite please:
Just curious. I know I am forgetting some traditions so feel free to help out.
I love the hockey handshake line.
I agree. It’s great and I don’t recall ever seeing any other sport do it.
Pro soccer has the two teams walking out to the pitch and each player is holding the hand of a young boy or girl.
Does pro hockey still pick the three stars of the game after it’s been played?
In some ballparks home run balls are tossed back onto the field if the opponent’s batter hit it.
Throwing hats on the ice after a hockey player scores three times.
Also, chuck-a-puck between periods at youth hockey games. For a dollar, you get to throw a puck on the ice and the one who threw the puck closest to the center wins a prize.
Senior night for HS and college sports.
I’m fascinated by the fancy hair bows that college softball players wear, at least when I see the College World Series on TV.
At the beginning of pre-season camp for the Green Bay Packers, kids line up their little bikes at Lambeau Field with the hopes that one of the big players will ride it across the street to training camp.
My top ten - not in order
hockey handshake
hockey beards and hockey hair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmucWOLnAb4
hat trick - hats on the ice
drinking milk after the Indy 500
the ‘curtain call’ after a baseball player hits a home run
‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ especially when it was Harry Caray singing
the Masters green jacket
singing ‘Sweet Caroline’
‘One Shining Moment’ - the Luther Vandross version
honor your favorite teacher night for high school sports
When a wrestler retires he leaves his shoes on the mat after his final match.
The Indy 500 reference reminded me of the Brickyard 400 tradition of the winning driver and the entire race crew kissing the bricks on the race track.
Fancy hats and white shoes the 1st Saturday in May in Kentucky (mint juleps, optional).
A stars on ice kind or show in Winter Olympics when top x finishers in ice skating events perform for the crowd, not for the judges.
What? No one mentioned the Gatorade dunk? 
My son and grandson’s Little League has a nice tradition on opening day. Every team at each age level meets at a school. The high school band plays music, and leads everyone in a march about a half-mile to the Little League field. Police block traffic and parents and spectators line the streets and cheer and wave. I’ve both marched in the parade as a coach, and clapped from the street when they passed by.
One of the nicest parts of the ceremony is each 12-year old player and his mom’s names are called, and they meet at the pitchers mound. The player gives his mom a rose and a gift. A simple gesture yet it signals the ending is near for their youth baseball career, and acknowledges the role that moms play in nurturing their children. It’s a happy moment yet it’s also a sad moment too.
In Detroit the hockey fans throw octopi on the ice. You can’t top that.
^^ Unless it’s the Florida Panthers fans throwing rats onto the ice.
http://proicehockey.about.com/od/history/fl/The-Story-Behind-The-Florida-Panthers-Rat-Trick.htm
Yes.
Last year, when Edwin Encarnacion hit three home runs in one game, the Jays’ fans threw hats onto the field. It was great!
Rally caps. (For those who don’t know, you turn your baseball style hat inside out to inspire a rally.)
That the members of the winning team in hockey each get to spend several days with the Stanley Cup during the off-season, taking it to their home town or wherever they want.
Tipping your baseball cap to the fans to acknowledge their cheers.
Soccer players scoring a goal and then racing to the end line where they slide and act like kids. Then they are mobbed by teammates. When my son played HS soccer I liked watching him race to a teammate and they both jumped in the air together and chest bumped after scoring a goal.