Lynah Townie shirts

I have a dream...

As a townie, i look at a sea of red fans standing and chanting. It's great and inspirational, i love it, great show!

But i imagine it's kinda lame to be looking at a sea of townies sitting down, no cheers, no sea of red.

But that can change a bit for the first time! Townies can now buy their own red shirts to wear to games. We couldn't buy the 'Lynah Faithful' shirts.But some smart awsome shirt sellers are selling shirts that say, Lynah Townie.

Hopefully they'll sell a lot of shirts and from now on the students will see a sea of red. I have a dream that will be so. I wanna walk up and down the townie isles selling the shirts.

Cornell hockey fuckin rocks. Fuck Shaefer for trying to tone down the fans. Somebody better fuckin tie a chicken to the Harvard goalies net between periods this year!

Interesting, ...guess you guys have some too.

Unfortunately.

Personally, I think an all-red Townie section would be cool. Maybe the chicken wouldn't go over so well this year, though....

C'mon, do not cheat yourselves, have a Santeria ritual.

Can the back say "Townies Up"

JDeafv
Can the back say "Townies Up"

I like that idea...I'm not sure I like Lynah Townie as much as Townie Faithful. Has anyone seen a shirt anywhere?

I'm all for anything that gets people wearing Red -- those wearing home jerseys have a pass.

hymn
Cornell hockey fuckin rocks. Fuck Shaefer for trying to tone down the fans. Somebody better fuckin tie a chicken to the Harvard goalies net between periods this year!

Have you been hibernating for the last 15 years? The chicken thing went out circa 1990.

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hymn
Somebody better fuckin tie a chicken to the Harvard goalies net between periods this year!

You first.

Beeeej

When did he put the spelling guide there? That's awesome.

I saw these shirts for the sale over the weekend and wouldn't dream of buying one. What makes Townies not "Lynah Faithful"? Some us us have been faithful for 30 years or more -- including having "done our time in the line" as students.

And you weren't even there JTW......but you're right.

The loss of the chicken tradition has always bugged me.

I love animals. I agree that it was not a great idea for the powers that be to sanction the practice whereby a student would keep a live chicken stuffed into their coat for a couple of hours, before eventually tieing the hopefully, but not always, still live chicken to the Harvard goal between the second and third periods.

But there are so many simple ways this tradition could have lived on (or even be brought back) that would not harm a chicken in any way.

One possibility would be for the administration to step in, find a willing chicken farmer who would "lend" a chicken, and proper chicken containment, for the evening, and then have a drawing or something to see who the lucky student who gets to tie the chicken to the net would be.

Another possibility would be to say that the first student who shows up at Lynah with a chicken and a proper container for said chicken may store it somewhere in Lynah (the room where the refs change, perhaps) until it is time to tie the chicken to the net. The chicken is then donated to some local chicken farmer, along with any safety-chickens that show up at Lynah after the first chicken.

Of course with both of these ideas the Sucks sieve would have to be instructed not to harm the chicken, but if memory serves, and what I've heard is accurate, the only person to ever intentionally hurt a chicken at the Harvard game was wearing the Carnellian and White, and went on to become Athletic Director.

Bring back the chicken!
Andy W. ('86, and old enough to recall seeing live chickens on the ice, and I don't mean the guy in the chicken suit.)

andyw2100
The loss of the chicken tradition has always bugged me.


One possibility would be for the administration to step in, find a willing chicken farmer who would "lend" a chicken, and proper chicken containment, for the evening, and then have a drawing or something to see who the lucky student who gets to tie the chicken to the net would be.

This idea sounds like the complaints the UNH fans have been posting on USCHO about their administration getting involved and even having sponsors for some of their one time crazy, student traditions. Kind of takes away from the spontaneity and fun of the idea. The other ideas don't sound too bad, but I think we should definitely keep the administration out of these things as much as possible.

Agreed. Traditions that become officially sanctioned and sponsored are never the same. I don't mind sanctioning of the "we like it and won't stop it" kind, but that's different.

If the concern was that it was not animal-friendly, can't a dead chicken (bought from the store) be tied instead? It's not run by the administration then, and it doesn't go back to the old way.

Beeeej

hymn
Somebody better fuckin tie a chicken to the Harvard goalies net between periods this year!

You first.

Beeeej

To be clear, you do mean we tie hymn to the goal?

RatushnyFan
And you weren't even there JTW......but you're right.

Hey, I read about it in the Sun!

For those whose time it was before, the tradition died after they tried to replace the live chicken with a guy in a chicken suit.

JDeafv
Can the back say "Townies Up"

A very cool idea. I'd wear one.

There could a little sewable badge for each season the fan has seen a game -- like the game marks on college football helmets. I know a few fans from the 60's who would be covered with them.

It wasn't the administration who killed the tradition. It was a CUPD oficer who worked part time for the SPCA. She was so offended by the act she actually arrested the student after witnessing the act.

Cop at Lynah
It wasn't the administration who killed the tradition. It was a CUPD oficer who worked part time for the SPCA. She was so offended by the act she actually arrested the student after witnessing the act.

That's still the school killing the tradition. The school could have instucted Public Safety to release the student and apologized for it.

KeithK
Agreed. Traditions that become officially sanctioned and sponsored are never the same. I don't mind sanctioning of the "we like it and won't stop it" kind, but that's different.

Like Slope Day?