A look inside BYU football’s ice cream diplomacy, with Elder Gong as a guest ambassador

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If you didn’t know Elder Gerrit W. Gong is a lefty, you do now.

On Saturday, Elder Gong was a guest ambassador for ice cream diplomacy, a recent addition to BYU football home games that begins with 90 seconds of handoffs. The apostle was part of a crew that handed out more than 4,000 half pints of ice cream to UCF fans at LaVell Edwards Stadium.

Elder Gong turned into a passer because there were leftovers. He was every bit as accurate as BYU’s most famous left-hander, Steve Young, lobbing the 8-ounce containers to Cougar fans who raised their hands.

The story of ice cream diplomacy begins back in 2018, when university officials reviewed the experienc