Las Vegas Roll Call

Beeeej
Seating: Section 2, Row GS1 with dss28 et al.
Lodging: MGM Grand.

ugarte

Beeeej
Seating: Section 2, Row GS1 with dss28 et al.
Lodging: MGM Grand.

et al.?

Beeeej

ugarte

Beeeej
Seating: Section 2, Row GS1 with dss28 et al.
Lodging: MGM Grand.

et al.?

That's an abbreviation of the Latin "et alia," meaning "and others," sometimes used in place of the more colloquial "etc." in scholarly or legal writing.

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

Weder

I was mostly joking about the reception being a bargain, but the fact is that the cheap food days of the Strip are largely long gone.

upprdeck
there a lot of pretty good value eating places in vegas, never been to any on this list though.

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

[cornelluniversity.imodules.com]

Trotsky
I hear "Eastern time" more frequently than "Eastern standard time" these days. It always rings weird to me too though.

Trotsky
There is nothing in my life that +/- hour will ever make a difference that matters.

upprdeck
didnt realize until today that the vegas games on going to be on FLO TV..

also noticed that Cornell didnt bother on their schedule page to post the starting time in EST thus having to think abit about when the games are actually going to be on..

question isnt it est/edt or pst/pdt not PT as the proper abbreviation?

upprdeck
never sure but this implies it

Weder

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

I mean, the “cheap” places on that list are no bargain. The pizza place, for example, is about $6 a slice. I was mostly joking about the reception being a bargain, but the fact is that the cheap food days of the Strip are largely long gone.

jtwcornell91

Weder

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

I mean, the “cheap” places on that list are no bargain. The pizza place, for example, is about $6 a slice. I was mostly joking about the reception being a bargain, but the fact is that the cheap food days of the Strip are largely long gone.

I guess it's been almost 20 years since I drove through Vegas, but isn't there an In-n-Out Burger on the strip? Back when I was living in Salt Lake, it was the first In-n-Out on the drive to Southern California.

upprdeck

I would go to the Brooklyn Bowl or the Barley Pizza or Gordan Ramseys fish place way before i ever go back to in-n-out burger again.

Trotsky
Wait until the relaxed FDA standards.

Jeff Hopkins '82

jtwcornell91

Weder

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

I mean, the “cheap” places on that list are no bargain. The pizza place, for example, is about $6 a slice. I was mostly joking about the reception being a bargain, but the fact is that the cheap food days of the Strip are largely long gone.

I guess it's been almost 20 years since I drove through Vegas, but isn't there an In-n-Out Burger on the strip? Back when I was living in Salt Lake, it was the first In-n-Out on the drive to Southern California.

There are apparently 5 In-and-Outs in Vegas. There's one on the far side of the freeway from the arena.

Not that I understand the fascination. Their burgers are bland and their fries are usually too dry.

Beeeej

Jeff Hopkins '82

jtwcornell91

Weder

Swampy

Weder
I’ll be there in one of the GA sections. Note that there is an official alumni reception before the Friday game if you feel like spending $50 for hot dogs and popcorn (a relative bargain for the Strip!)

Huh?

15 Places For Cheap Food for Under $20 in Las Vegas

I thought the whole point of food on the Strip is bring in suckers customers to lose money gambling to experience the thrills and excitement of gaming.

If they still have nickle slots, one way to stay within budget is to buy a roll of nickles and pass a couple of hours playing the slots, while the casino offers you free drinks. It's a fun cocktail hour. The last time I did it I came out about $35 ahead.

I mean, the “cheap” places on that list are no bargain. The pizza place, for example, is about $6 a slice. I was mostly joking about the reception being a bargain, but the fact is that the cheap food days of the Strip are largely long gone.

I guess it's been almost 20 years since I drove through Vegas, but isn't there an In-n-Out Burger on the strip? Back when I was living in Salt Lake, it was the first In-n-Out on the drive to Southern California.

There are apparently 5 In-and-Outs in Vegas. There's one on the far side of the freeway from the arena.

Not that I understand the fascination. Their burgers are bland and their fries are usually too dry.

In dss28's and my opinion the Fatburger on the Strip is excellent as far as quick-casual burger places go. For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Beeeej
In dss28's and my opinion the Fatburger on the Strip is excellent as far as quick-casual burger places go. For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

Any recommendations for good ethnic restaurants, e.g. Thai, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Jamaican, Sichuan?

Beeeej
For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

Trotsky

Beeeej
For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the Sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos … but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space. Right above the gambling tables the Forty Flying Carazito Brothers are doing a high-wire trapeze act, along with four muzzled Wolverines and the Six Nymphet Sisters from San Diego … so you’re down on the main floor playing blackjack, and the stakes are getting high when suddenly you chance to look up, and there, right smack above your head is a half-naked 14-year-old girl being chased through the air by a snarling wolverine, which is suddenly locked in a death battle with two silver-painted Polacks who come swinging down from opposite balconies and meet in mid-air on the wolverine’s neck … both Polacks seize the animal as they fall straight down towards the crap tables – but they bounce off the net; they separate and spring back up towards the roof in three different directions, and just as they’re about to fall again they are grabbed out of the air by three Korean Kittens and trapezed off to one of the balconies.” -- HST

Trotsky

Beeeej
For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the Sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos … but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space. Right above the gambling tables the Forty Flying Carazito Brothers are doing a high-wire trapeze act, along with four muzzled Wolverines and the Six Nymphet Sisters from San Diego … so you’re down on the main floor playing blackjack, and the stakes are getting high when suddenly you chance to look up, and there, right smack above your head is a half-naked 14-year-old girl being chased through the air by a snarling wolverine, which is suddenly locked in a death battle with two silver-painted Polacks who come swinging down from opposite balconies and meet in mid-air on the wolverine’s neck … both Polacks seize the animal as they fall straight down towards the crap tables – but they bounce off the net; they separate and spring back up towards the roof in three different directions, and just as they’re about to fall again they are grabbed out of the air by three Korean Kittens and trapezed off to one of the balconies.” -- HST

Jeff Hopkins '82
Haven't read that in years. Maybe I should get a copy for the flight.

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Beeeej

Jeff Hopkins '82

Beeeej
In dss28's and my opinion the Fatburger on the Strip is excellent as far as quick-casual burger places go. For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

Any recommendations for good ethnic restaurants, e.g. Thai, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Jamaican, Sichuan?

Not really - we had some good (but not spectacular) "revolving sushi" in Chinatown last time we were there in September, but we don't tend to go out of our way to find the others you mentioned. The one I really wish I could recommend is a sushi place where we had an absolutely amazing, creative Omakase for a friend's birthday several years ago, but we've never been able to remember the name of the place or figure out what it was (nor can the friend and his wife, who now live there, so it's especially frustrating for them), to our detriment and yours. Sorry.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
Haven't read that in years. Maybe I should get a copy for the flight.

Unlike a lot of Hunter (and the man himself), it's aged well. The Pulitzer murder dispatches are still the best, though. "She slept with a trumpet. I told her it was wrong."

Also contains this, for my money his best writing, and so significant now.

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

andyw2100

Beeeej

Jeff Hopkins '82

Beeeej
In dss28's and my opinion the Fatburger on the Strip is excellent as far as quick-casual burger places go. For steak, we highly recommend The Steakhouse at Circus Circus; as long as you can stand to walk through the horrible casino floor to get there, it's totally worth it.

Any recommendations for good ethnic restaurants, e.g. Thai, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Jamaican, Sichuan?

Not really - we had some good (but not spectacular) "revolving sushi" in Chinatown last time we were there in September, but we don't tend to go out of our way to find the others you mentioned. The one I really wish I could recommend is a sushi place where we had an absolutely amazing, creative Omakase for a friend's birthday several years ago, but we've never been able to remember the name of the place or figure out what it was (nor can the friend and his wife, who now live there, so it's especially frustrating for them), to our detriment and yours. Sorry.

Friends in Vegas who consider themselves sushi aficionados swear by a place on Sahara called Sushi Fever. [www.sushifevervegas.com] I have been there and have enjoyed their chicken katsu, but I'm not a sushi eater. Perhaps this is the place you are thinking of. It's been there at least fifteen years, and perhaps longer.

Trotsky

This way to the ice floe.

Todd R
For Thai - Lotus of Siam. Has been called the best Thai food in America, and it is certainly the best I have found. I think the original location is closed for renovations, but they have a second one. Worth the 10 minute ride from the strip.

Jim Hyla
In the USCHO TMQ column Jim Connelly states that he'll be in LV. So let's win and get the publicity, as well as PWR points.

adamw

Jim Hyla
In the USCHO TMQ column Jim Connelly states that he'll be in LV. So let's win and get the publicity, as well as PWR points.

Always so biased Jim ... we'll have 3 CHN people in Vegas!

The Rancor
They mentioned Cornell in this week' column, so they won't have to do it again until March.

adamw

Jim Hyla
In the USCHO TMQ column Jim Connelly states that he'll be in LV. So let's win and get the publicity, as well as PWR points.

Always so biased Jim ... we'll have 3 CHN people in Vegas!

Jim Hyla

adamw

Jim Hyla
In the USCHO TMQ column Jim Connelly states that he'll be in LV. So let's win and get the publicity, as well as PWR points.

Always so biased Jim ... we'll have 3 CHN people in Vegas!

Now Adam, how was supposed to know that. Mention it in a column and I might post it.

So, "It's all your fault, it's all your fault, ..."

And by the way, you forgot to mention that I gave you a link when I posted your PWR for this week.

So there.

upprdeck
there a lot of pretty good value eating places in vegas, never been to any on this list though.

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

Trotsky

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

I'm assuming it's strictly alums.

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

RichH

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

An alumni band had begun organizing when it was discovered that the tournament just assumed none of the schools would send their band and hired 4 local high schools to fill in. Not wanting to just elbow those high-schoolers out, an alumni band leader got in touch (through CU Athletics) with the VGK's marketing manager, and it turns out the Desert Pines HS band said they would be thrilled to have us join them.

So mostly a HS band with some CU band alumni joining for support/guidance. Some of us *cough* are relieved we don't have to be relied on to play or schlep a trombone across the country. I'm not sure if the alumni would get a chance to play a bit on their own, but that was also being discussed.

Dafatone

RichH

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

An alumni band had begun organizing when it was discovered that the tournament just assumed none of the schools would send their band and hired 4 local high schools to fill in. Not wanting to just elbow those high-schoolers out, an alumni band leader got in touch (through CU Athletics) with the VGK's marketing manager, and it turns out the Desert Pines HS band said they would be thrilled to have us join them.

So mostly a HS band with some CU band alumni joining for support/guidance. Some of us *cough* are relieved we don't have to be relied on to play or schlep a trombone across the country. I'm not sure if the alumni would get a chance to play a bit on their own, but that was also being discussed.

Maybe a bad assumption, but that's pretty neat compared to just saying no bands.

Trotsky
Is a trombone carry on?

ugarte

Dafatone

RichH

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

An alumni band had begun organizing when it was discovered that the tournament just assumed none of the schools would send their band and hired 4 local high schools to fill in. Not wanting to just elbow those high-schoolers out, an alumni band leader got in touch (through CU Athletics) with the VGK's marketing manager, and it turns out the Desert Pines HS band said they would be thrilled to have us join them.

So mostly a HS band with some CU band alumni joining for support/guidance. Some of us *cough* are relieved we don't have to be relied on to play or schlep a trombone across the country. I'm not sure if the alumni would get a chance to play a bit on their own, but that was also being discussed.

Maybe a bad assumption, but that's pretty neat compared to just saying no bands.

it would be even cooler (though above and beyond tbh) if they got in touch with the school bands to get "assignments" to learn for the game. Would be hilarious to get a few HS kids to learn a quick Swanee only to have the band director blanch when he heard what it was for.

The Rancor

ugarte

Dafatone

RichH

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

An alumni band had begun organizing when it was discovered that the tournament just assumed none of the schools would send their band and hired 4 local high schools to fill in. Not wanting to just elbow those high-schoolers out, an alumni band leader got in touch (through CU Athletics) with the VGK's marketing manager, and it turns out the Desert Pines HS band said they would be thrilled to have us join them.

So mostly a HS band with some CU band alumni joining for support/guidance. Some of us *cough* are relieved we don't have to be relied on to play or schlep a trombone across the country. I'm not sure if the alumni would get a chance to play a bit on their own, but that was also being discussed.

Maybe a bad assumption, but that's pretty neat compared to just saying no bands.

it would be even cooler (though above and beyond tbh) if they got in touch with the school bands to get "assignments" to learn for the game. Would be hilarious to get a few HS kids to learn a quick Swanee only to have the band director blanch when he heard what it was for.

i would guess they at least know gary glitter...

adamw

Jim Hyla
In the USCHO TMQ column Jim Connelly states that he'll be in LV. So let's win and get the publicity, as well as PWR points.

Always so biased Jim ... we'll have 3 CHN people in Vegas!

Jeff Hopkins '82

The Rancor

ugarte

Dafatone

RichH

French Rage
Does anyone know if any version of the pep band is showing up?

An alumni band had begun organizing when it was discovered that the tournament just assumed none of the schools would send their band and hired 4 local high schools to fill in. Not wanting to just elbow those high-schoolers out, an alumni band leader got in touch (through CU Athletics) with the VGK's marketing manager, and it turns out the Desert Pines HS band said they would be thrilled to have us join them.

So mostly a HS band with some CU band alumni joining for support/guidance. Some of us *cough* are relieved we don't have to be relied on to play or schlep a trombone across the country. I'm not sure if the alumni would get a chance to play a bit on their own, but that was also being discussed.

Maybe a bad assumption, but that's pretty neat compared to just saying no bands.

it would be even cooler (though above and beyond tbh) if they got in touch with the school bands to get "assignments" to learn for the game. Would be hilarious to get a few HS kids to learn a quick Swanee only to have the band director blanch when he heard what it was for.

i would guess they at least know gary glitter...

The band playing for OSU played Gary Glitter. The band supporting us was great. They actually all wore red, had red and white flags to twirl, and played Davy after the goals and the Alma Mater during the intermission. Now we need to teach them "O Canada."

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

Trotsky

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

Huh, did you see them?

The stripper / daughter dances in the aisles were Take Your Daughter to Work: Sex Workers Edition. They looked like they were auditioning to be America's Next First Lady.

Jim Hyla

Trotsky

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

Huh, did you see them?

The stripper / daughter dances in the aisles were Take Your Daughter to Work: Sex Workers Edition. They looked like they were auditioning to be America's Next First Lady.

But then again it might be First Gentleman.

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

Jeff Hopkins '82

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

We must have walked through different places. I smelled weed quite a few times. But, yeah, still more strollers...and hookers.

I always remember Steve Martin's bit about his first time seeing a show in Vegas: "God, look at the tits! There must be 57 tits up there!" Of course, in the case of the cheerhookers, I doubt any of them were real.

But the "Buck in my cup" guy is Vegas in a nutshell: Loud, annoying, rude, tasteless. All about the money.

Glad we're not coming back next year.

Jim Hyla

Jeff Hopkins '82

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

We must have walked through different places. I smelled weed quite a few times. But, yeah, still more strollers...and hookers.

I always remember Steve Martin's bit about his first time seeing a show in Vegas: "God, look at the tits! There must be 57 tits up there!" Of course, in the case of the cheerhookers, I doubt any of them were real.

But the "Buck in my cup" guy is Vegas in a nutshell: Loud, annoying, rude, tasteless. All about the money.

Glad we're not coming back next year.

But then, one of these years the FF may end up there.

Jeff Hopkins '82

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

We must have walked through different places. I smelled weed quite a few times. But, yeah, still more strollers...and hookers.

I always remember Steve Martin's bit about his first time seeing a show in Vegas: "God, look at the tits! There must be 57 tits up there!" Of course, in the case of the cheerhookers, I doubt any of them were real.

But the "Buck in my cup" guy is Vegas in a nutshell: Loud, annoying, rude, tasteless. All about the money.

Glad we're not coming back next year.

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

RichH

Jeff Hopkins '82

adamw

billhoward

French Rage
Who else is here an extra day because Frontier cancelled their return flight?

Who's here all week because of CES? Gives me parts of 7 days to get my clothes further weed-infused from walking about.

Was there 3 days - amount of times I smelled weed: 0 .... amount of times I saw baby strollers: 467

We must have walked through different places. I smelled weed quite a few times. But, yeah, still more strollers...and hookers.

I always remember Steve Martin's bit about his first time seeing a show in Vegas: "God, look at the tits! There must be 57 tits up there!" Of course, in the case of the cheerhookers, I doubt any of them were real.

But the "Buck in my cup" guy is Vegas in a nutshell: Loud, annoying, rude, tasteless. All about the money.

Glad we're not coming back next year.

I’m just glad Atlantic City isn’t in our lives anymore. That was like a fever nightmare compared to Las Vegas.

I’m not going to say that “there’s something for everyone” in LV. But the city has made steps towards stressing a wide range of entertainment, food, and shopping instead of just gambling, sex, and booze. And apparently pot, but I’ve smelled that in just about every city (or rock concert) in America I’ve walked around lately, big and small. It’s everywhere, folks. Those pearls can’t be clutched anymore.

That’s not to say I even like LV that much. Everything you can see is pretty much designed to part you with your money. Resort fees are misleading and possibly illegal. It’s the perfect place to study America’s wealth disparity in a fishbowl. It attracts year-round the stereotype of the rude, loudmouth American and placates them with the excesses they crave. It’s a city built in a place no one should be able to live, and proudly flaunts the wastefulness of humanity in order to even exist. It sells “The American Dream” more than anywhere else, and people keep buying it. All you need is a few bucks and a system, and you too can shit in a gold toilet. Thank god we were there in January and not hoofing to the ice arena in 110 degree heat.

But I had a good time, because I know my comfort areas, and can get away from the overstimulating noise. It also carries some nostalgia for me. On top of that, it was a well run tournament overall. Ushers were friendly and left us to sit where we pleased. They provided bands, which shows they kind of “get” what the college game is about. You really don’t need a damn car to get there. It wasn’t perfect. Endless Jock Jams, an unexplained early championship game that left even the arena staff confused, and yeah, shootouts are lame. But it was a good show. The FF is coming.

RichH

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

#ImWithUgarte What the hell.

Swampy
Can we all just agree the tournament would be greatly improved by eliminating the "professional" cheerleaders?
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But as far as I could tell, these cheerleaders just stood on the stairs and wiggled. With FloSports in particular, the cheerleaders really detracted from the enjoyment of watching the game. Frequently, when there was a lull in the action, the camera would focus on the cheerleaders. Why? About the only saving grace was when they were "dancing" with young children. Meanwhile, the teams were setting up for a faceoff, but because the cameras were on the cheerleaders, viewers couldn't see who was on the ice or what the teams' strategies were. And the announcers said nothing about it.

Swampy
As for the cheerleader/hooker controversy, if you saw one of the cheerleaders dressed in her cheerleader costume on the strip, what would you guess is her occupation?

RichH
But I had a good time, because I know my comfort areas, and can get away from the overstimulating noise. It also carries some nostalgia for me. On top of that, it was a well run tournament overall. Ushers were friendly and left us to sit where we pleased. They provided bands, which shows they kind of “get” what the college game is about. You really don’t need a damn car to get there. It wasn’t perfect. Endless Jock Jams, an unexplained early championship game that left even the arena staff confused, and yeah, shootouts are lame. But it was a good show. The FF is coming.

French Rage

RichH
But I had a good time, because I know my comfort areas, and can get away from the overstimulating noise. It also carries some nostalgia for me. On top of that, it was a well run tournament overall. Ushers were friendly and left us to sit where we pleased. They provided bands, which shows they kind of “get” what the college game is about. You really don’t need a damn car to get there. It wasn’t perfect. Endless Jock Jams, an unexplained early championship game that left even the arena staff confused, and yeah, shootouts are lame. But it was a good show. The FF is coming.

This.

I enjoyed the tournament, it was a positive, and I would do it again. Now, maybe part of that is I live in CA and so I'm up for any game(s) that close to me. Yes Las Vegas is crass and over-the-top, but if done sparingly the ridiculousness of it is actually a positive in a campy way. My wife and I didn't do any gambling because we have no interest in it, but it's still fun to people watch others going about it. Yes it's designed to separate you from your money, but if you're a halfway reasonable adult you know how to avoid that; heck we each made $20 reviewing a TV show!

Positives:
- As mentioned above, close to where I live and fun to walk around for a couple days.
- Overall running of the tournament. Decent arena, easy to get in and out of, good restaurants nearby.
- The HS bands.

Negatives:
- Could have done without the long breaks in play. Were those for commercials? It hurt the flow a little and gave us little opportunity for remote-control goalie.
- As others have mentioned, the OT format. But in the end, it was a tie and they needed an excuse to give out a trophy.
- Also as others mentioned, making the championship game the early one.

Overall the first positive outweighs all of the negatives by a mile.

Now, if they did it 10 straight years it might start to get old. But for now I'd do it again.

Beeeej
They'd better not change the schedule on the fly a second time - I think people sort of understood this time, but a non-zero number of Cornell fans legitimately missed the championship game and they simply cannot afford to lose that sort of goodwill again, potential participant schools talk to each other. At least that won't be an issue for the Frozen Four.

French Rage

Beeeej
They'd better not change the schedule on the fly a second time - I think people sort of understood this time, but a non-zero number of Cornell fans legitimately missed the championship game and they simply cannot afford to lose that sort of goodwill again, potential participant schools talk to each other. At least that won't be an issue for the Frozen Four.

Honest question because I don't remember: did they ever explicitly say the second game on Saturday was the championship game, or did we all just assume because that's how it's always done?

Trotsky

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

Huh, did you see them?

The stripper / daughter dances in the aisles were Take Your Daughter to Work: Sex Workers Edition. They looked like they were auditioning to be America's Next First Lady.

ugarte

Trotsky

ugarte

marty

Hooker count? - Cheerleaders in the rink excepted.

jesus christ, dude.

Huh, did you see them?

The stripper / daughter dances in the aisles were Take Your Daughter to Work: Sex Workers Edition. They looked like they were auditioning to be America's Next First Lady.

ah, so we're going with the "snarky mullah" approach

Trotsky
Everything good about Vegas is > 10 miles from the strip. It's a fantastic city if you get away from the tourist areas. Like any other city.