Foam hand

A senior in high school, Steve's photo was taken by (and published in) the local newspaper, The Ottumwa Courier, on March 18, 1971.

[1] In 1976, Geral Fauss, a teacher at Cy-Fair High School in Cypress, Texas, created foam fingers to show support for the team at the high school where he taught, to raise funds for the industrial arts club, and as a project that his industrial arts class could produce themselves.

His first prototype foam finger was made out of plywood and had a painting of a "number one" done in the school's colors.

Besides being sold at all manner of sporting events and venues as souvenirs, foam fingers are used as fund-raisers for schools and booster clubs as well as corporate promotions.

However, in early 2009, a product that more closely replicates the dimensional form of a human hand (like Hulk Hands with an extended finger) was introduced and marketed under the trade name Radhand until 2010 when it was renamed UltimateHand, produced by a new company called BrettHand.