Zamboni drivers at hockey games are often cheered and photographed. ... At the Iceland rink, home to Zamboni memorabilia, fans can buy a T-shirt with Snoopy driving one of the machines.

A Zamboni machine was first used in an NHL game in 1954, and one scraped the ice at the Olympics for the first time at Squaw Valley in 1960. ... Snoopy drove one. Charlie Brown, as usual, ...