[1] During the intermission of a Sioux Falls Stampede game on December 11, 2021, $5,000 in one-dollar bills was placed on a carpet in the middle of the ice hockey rink.
[5] Argus Leader reporter Annie Todd, who was present at the event,[6] posted video footage on Twitter, where it went viral.
"[2] Loren Paul, president of the South Dakota Education Association, said that "we shouldn’t be forcing teachers to crawl around on an ice rink to get the money they need to fund their classrooms.
"[9] Reynold Nesiba, a South Dakota senator who represents a portion of Sioux Falls and additionally works as a professor of economics at Augustana University, told The Washington Post that teachers "should never have to go through something like this to be able to get the resources they need to meet the basic educational needs of our students" and urged his followers on Twitter to donate to the Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation.
[10] After a widespread negative response to the event, CU Mortgage Direct and the Sioux Falls Stampede released a joint apology.