sentences:  Handles were welded onto the bells to ease ringing, and cowbells are now manufactured and sold specifically as athletic noisemakers.Clanging cowbells rung by many of the State fans is a part of the tradition of MSU football games, despite the SEC banning "artificial noise-makers" at conference games–a rule aimed at Mississippi State–from 1974 to 2010.That rule was finally lifted at the beginning of the 2010 season, initially on a trial basis, with cowbells only permitted to ring during halftime, timeouts, and after touchdowns.