Chmelar himself is a VP of commercial sales at a construction supply company now and has a patent for "a concrete forming system called Riser Solutions that is used to construct tiered concrete." ...

When a 16-year-old Steve Chmelar created the original "No. 1 hand" as a way to support his high school basketball team at the Iowa state championships in 1971, he never expected to see one used in ...

n our culture, people must use their fingers carefully because some gestures might offend. Miley Cyrus would know. Cyrus’ use of a sports-fan foam finger during her racy performance at Sunday’s Video ...

Miley Cyrus at the MTV VMAs in 2013; Cyrus performing at the pre-Super Bowl show on February 7. Kevin Mazur/WireImage for MTV; @NFL/TikTok Miley Cyrus performed live in Tampa, Florida, for NFL's ...

We Americans are a touchy lot when it comes to our sense that we earned what we got. We love the mythos of the self-made striver, and have cultural freakouts when our president dares to declare that ...

The foam finger may be the only product famous not as an object of obsession but as a symbol of obsession. At the Super Bowl or a Pop Warner game, waving and thrusting in the stands, it amplifies ...

This story starts when Gerald Green was back in the sixth grade. He had his mother’s class ring on when he tried to dunk on a makeshift rim (what, you couldn’t dunk in sixth grade?). He went up but ...

Last week, the Phoenix Suns team shop began selling a rather unusual product: A foam hand with only four and a half fingers, in a tribute to swingman Gerald Green. And as the Suns took on the Lakers ...

After all the finger wagging in the wake of Miley Cyrus' Video Music Awards performance, one giant foam finger (and the man who created an early version of it many years ago) is getting some attention ...

Pop star Miley Cyrus performs during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards using Steve Chmelar's foam finger creation. WireImage When a 16-year-old Steve Chmelar created the original “No. 1 hand” as a way ...