The one that got away..

The last line is great


There are many famous fish stories. For example, there's the time the UNH mascot, Wild E. Cat, attempted to throw the fish in Snively Arena. Instead of landing on the ice, the fish hit a Yale assistant coach. "He was an Italian guy, and they called him the Godfather," UNH coach Dick Umile '72 relates. "They now call him the Codfather. The guy came up to me after the game, and I apologized. What could I say? It slipped."

One of Umile's favorite fish incidents occurred in the early 1990s. At that time, the home team received a penalty if fans threw objects on the ice. "At all these different rinks people were (throwing) things--tennis balls, newspapers --and it was really holding up the game," the coach recalls. "It's the Maine weekend, and the cops won't let the kid in with the fish. I'm in the office before the game, and the students come to get me. So I go down there, get the fish from the cops, and we're walking in with the fish in the bag. The kids say, 'But coach, we're going to get a penalty.' I say, 'Don't worry about it. We'll kill the penalty. Just throw the fish.'"

oh, I got this from a friend of mine, in a discussion about object-throwing traditions.

[www.unhmagazine.unh.edu]