I was also disappointed at Jones Beach that they wouldn't let me bring my "Y" into the theater. After the Good Morning America performance all the other people holding letters gathered them up and tried to give them to the band. Um... "The guys from the record company said we were to give it to them!" Um...
But I had kept my "Y." After all if I had to get stuck with holding it on national tv then I was going to enjoy it, dammit. So I decided to bring it to the Jones Beach show, as the official Huey Lewis and the News concert-going "Y." But security was not having any of it, and after asking me why I wanted to bring it in (at least I think that's what they were asking – they might have just been pronouncing it) they enforced their unwritten "no 'Y'" policy against me and forbade it. Apparently they were concerned that one of its corners could poke someone in the eye.
Damn Huey then for not spelling his name with an "O," because I bet I could have brought that letter in...