PSA: Do not climb over seemless glass

Any ideas about how to spread the word that climbing seemless glass is Bad Idea(tm)?

That would be Unseamly®.

(Hmmm... my spelling seemless good than it used to be...)

There wasn't any announcement last year, at least not that I recall; they had the zamboni doors open and pretty much just directed anyone who wanted to go out on the ice to go through them rather than climbing.

There was definitely an announcement of some sort last year.

That I remember pretty well. They pretty much said, don't go over the glass, we'll have the zamboni door open or the door by the benches.

Sorry, I have no idees at the moment.

Beaeaj

wait a sec John. . .you told me to follow you over the glass?!?! Do mean to tell me it's not a good idea to climb on the seamless glass???

hee

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It's so much less fun this way. I got to do it once my freshman year and it was just such a better tradition to "flood" the ice than it is to line up and calmly preceed onto it through a pre-designated area. I'm not saying I don't understand, nor do I plan on risking life & limb to relive it, but, grrr, just frustrating.

I have a compromise though, how difficult would it be to take down a few panes of glass(like two or three) and let the students kinda jump, kinda walk onto the ice without risking shattering glass? It would be a much better way to do it without hurting people. Do I have any support or am I just a washed up romantic?

Eternally hopeful,

DeltaOne81 '03, Fred

I think "everyone remain seated for 15 minutes while we disassemble the rink" is considerably less spontaneuous and fun than "everyone please come through the zamboni door." Yes, climbing over the glass two years ago has been one of my favorite memories of Cornell hockey too, but when you start planning it, and doing it every year it loses something. I think it's nice to go out on the ice and spend a few minutes with the team as we send them off to Placid regardless of how we actually get out there.

For sheer spontaneity and jubilation, I think you'd be hard-pressed to top the students climbing over the glass after the regular season win over Harvard in November 1995.
Hoping that someday, somehow, we get to tear down Penn's goalposts...

> ...students climbing over the glass after the regular season win over Harvard in November 1995.

I'm sure the Crimson players were saying to themselves, "HUH?!?!"


> Hoping that someday, somehow, we get to tear down Penn's goalposts...

...and/or eat their mascot... assuming, of course, that it's a box of oats...

(Umm... yeah... time for sleep...)

I fail to see why we would want to eat their mascot even if it was a box of oats.

Well, I'm hoping it wouldn't take 15 minutes. If it would, forget it (obviously). I'm hoping they could send out 4 guys, two to section D/E, two to A/B, and take down a pain per group in 2 minute or so... I think that would be worth waiting for. If it's much longer than that, then yeah, my idea doesn't fly.

Just wanted to throw it out there. And I'm not saying I don't still love being on the ice, sending the guys off to Placid however we can. I'm just saying I'd love to recapture even a little bit of the 'estatic spirit' that went so perfectly with climing, but not at all with filing in.

-DeltaOne81 '03, Fred

> ...students climbing over the glass after the regular season win over Harvard in November 1995.

I'm sure the Crimson players were saying to themselves, "HUH?!?!"

As were the Cornell players. I'll always remember the look on Matt Cooney's face as we random fans jumped on the pile. It was sort of a "Whaa...our fans are nuts" type of look. I think it also punctuated how big that win was. At the end of that night, my free Harvard-Cornell commemorative t-shirt had the collected a potpourri of smells that were incredibly sweet to me: beer, fish, zamboni exhaust, and hockey player funk.

For my money, the best was the QF win over Hahvahd in 1990. Bandie Jeff Weintraub was on the ice waving the enormous red & white flag within three seconds of the final buzzer.

Hey, maybe that's why Cleary stormed his team off the ice without waiting for the handshakes.

Beeeej