I like that guess!

[Dujon] NO, not a badge, because ...
YES! The words on the card are Heavy Metal. At the end of the game, I fling my baton out into the crowd, where it is caught by irach.

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I found it quite difficult answering all the "connected with X" questions without being misleading, since of course it can be connected with just about anything, if somebody writes a song about it. Relationships and (in one form or another) religion are frequent themes. The "small organisations" I referred to above would, of course, normally be called "bands" :)

Okay then.... The next one is ABSTRACT with STRONG ANIMAL CONNECTIONS

Surely, this time.

[Tuj] Not a unicorn.
[CdM] The animal connections are not human.
[ImNotJohn] Rats! Doggone it! No, not this time, either.

[Phil] About as abstract, I would expect, although it is not a rhetorical question.

[Tuj} No "P" in the beginning.

That's the formalities out of the way then.

[Tuj] Not from fdction.
[CdM] One of the animal connections is a dog.

[Phil] The words on the card do describe an action, if that can be called an "event".

[ImNotJohn] Yes, a well known phrase.
[cfm] Yes, related to what a dog does (or should I say doesn't do).

[Dujon] The word "bite" is not on the card
[ImNotJohn] See above, therefore, no.
[Software] Not the hair of the dog.
It may behoove one to consider my earlier response that one of the animal connections is a dog.