If I recall there were people with a Texas flag in/around section A. Is that still going on? I havent' noticed it from my vantage point in front of the band. If not, I'm going to bring one tonight. I'll probably bring it anyway. Any thoughts?
Just make sure the ROTC attendees don't mistake it for an Iraqi flag or there'd be one heck of a skirmish.
I think the guys that did it last year graduated. Mike "ack" usually has a sign that says "don't mess with McKee" with a picture of the flag on it, but thats about it. Dave the zamboni driver had a small texas flag yesterday with his cowboy costume.
Alright, I'll have it then. Let's Go Red
Y'all guys get over the rink. It's past six. Those of us remote, it's time to get iMix or iMixedUp sports loaded.
I brought a Texas flag to one game last year (I'm from Texas), was in Section B, right next to the aisle between A + B. Only brought it one game, cause people were giving me wierd looks wondering why I had a Texas flag
Heh. You should've seen the looks I got at MSU when I was wearing a huge red foam cowboy hat. It's cooler than it sounds (good thing, eh?).
Dave's parents came right over to say hi!
Eh, I brought it. Seemed well received enough. And don't worry Bill, I was there before warmups started. Too bad with the shutout. Oh well, next game.
Losing the shutout isn't just hard on Mckee and Cornell. It's just going to make it harder for the story writers. It would be so easy to type, "Cornell's stellar sophomore netminder David McKee tied Big Red legend Ken Dryden's career shutout record this weekend with back to back blankings of RPI and Union in the seniors', but not Mckee's, final regular season home game with a 4-0 win over visiting Union. McKee and Dryden both have and had 13 shutouts - but the lanky Lone Star state native and NRA lifetime member has as many as 75 games remaining to improve on Dryden's mark of a baker's dozen shutouts."
It would have been even easier for the scribes if both weekend scores had been 3-0 or 4-0 but alas that didn't happen either.
There is Moulson's third year of at least 1 hat trick per season. They can use that.
I'm sure I left out at couple cliches but I've had a bottle of wine which makes me either incapable or writing good prose or even more journalistically inclined. Y'all decide.
The sign has been taking a little bit of a beating, but it's hanging in there.
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
Losing the shutout isn't just hard on Mckee and Cornell.[/q]
Yeah, he seemed absolutely devastated over it.
[q]I actually didn't know about the record. I try not to read that stuff. I just want to go out and play every game one at a time.[/q]
His dad, however, knows precisely how many he has :-)
That quote just shows that McKee has paid attention in his Sports Cliches class. He's legally required to say the same thing even if he was devastated.
I just want to help the team.
We've got to play them one at a time. And the good Lord willing. Things will work out.
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
I just want to help the team.
We've got to play them one at a time. And the good Lord willing. Things will work out.[/q]
Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.
[Q]Trotsky Wrote: I just want to help the team. We've got to play them one at a time. And the good Lord willing. Things will work out.[/q]Yes, things will as long as you put your pants on one leg at a time on the days you're taking it one game at a time, the good Lord willing that Allah puts the wind at your back. Just don't call for help the day of the Daytona 500; He is otherwise occupied then.
The flags were because Friday was the "Battle of Texas." It was the first time in NCAA history that two Texan netminders faced each other. This was the reason why there was a large contindgent of Texas flags, as well as why Dave choose his cowboy outfit for that night.
[Q]LetsGoBigRed Wrote:
The flags were because Friday was the "Battle of Texas." It was the first time in NCAA history that two Texan netminders faced each other. This was the reason why there was a large contindgent of Texas flags, as well as why Dave choose his cowboy outfit for that night.[/q]
Second time.... Martin relieved Jordan Alford at RPI (yanked after one period) back in January.
it was the first time both starters were from Texas
[Q]ben03 Wrote:
it was the first time both starters were from Texas[/q]
And I took pleasure in reminding martin that only one good goalie has come from texas.
[Q]Jacob '06 Wrote:
[Q2]ben03 Wrote:
it was the first time both starters were from Texas[/Q]
And I took pleasure in reminding martin that only one good goalie has come from texas.
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I took it one step further to say that McKee was the only good thing to come out of Texas, ever. (Let the politics flamewar begin.)
>>> I took it one step further to say that McKee was the only good thing to come out of Texas, ever. (Let the politics flamewar begin.)
What about the Austin music scene, Michael Dell (he'swhy you can buy a computer for $300 now), Power Computing (RIP), application of the venturi effect to peeing out the opened side doors of moving pickup trucks, big hair at DFW ("the higher the hair, the closer to God"), just about the last state without an open container law in vehicles (make sure you pronounce the H), and plaintiff-friendly tort judges? I count at least two, three good things.
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
Michael Dell (he'swhy you can buy a computer for $300 now)
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Yeah, like I would ever buy a computer from Dell for $300. :-P
[Q]Will Wrote:
I took it one step further to say that McKee was the only good thing to come out of Texas, ever. (Let the politics flamewar begin.)[/q]
Brave Combo
Shiner Beer
The Reverend Horton Heat
Camarones Rancheros
Frijoles Charros
[Q]Will Wrote:
McKee was the only good thing to come out of Texas, ever.[/q]
Freddie King
Albert Collins
Buddy Holly
Lightnin' Hopkins
T-Bone Walker
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Scott Joplin
Ornette Coleman
Roy Orbison
Nolan Ryan.
[Q]Will Wrote:McKee was the only good thing to come out of Texas, ever.[/q]
Carol Burnett
Alan Lomax
Steve Martin
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
If anyone says Roger Clemens I will punch them.
Roger Clemens
[Sound of jagged end of shattered baseball bat penetrating shin]
Yeah, but he thought it was the ball! ::rolleyes:: :-(
Martin was born in New York and his family moved to texas when he was young
Roger Clemens was born in Dayton, OH. He just considers himself a Texan because he went to school there.
Speaking of athletes I don't like but respect, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Brian Leetch, born in Corpus Christi, TX.
Why doesn't anyone know to clap and scream "Deep in the Heart of Texas" when the band plays it before the 2nd period as McKee comes to that side? Barely anyone does it. More people know the Baby song. Strange
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jayne Mansfield
Gene Rodenberry
My favorite hockey player, hands down. I understand why they did it, but he should never have been in a non-Ranger uniform. Additionally, they treated him like shit through the process. Hopefully when the NHL comes back, they can resign him and let him go out a Ranger. Actually, interesting question. I believe Leetch's contract was through what would have been this year. Does that make him a free agent? It must, right?
I'm in the row in front of the band, so perhaps I don't have an accurate handle on the situation, but the people around me are pretty with it on "Deep in the Heart of Texas"
[Q]CM cWo 44 Wrote:
Why doesn't anyone know to clap and scream "Deep in the Heart of Texas" when the band plays it before the 2nd period as McKee comes to that side? Barely anyone does it. More people know the Bâby song. Strange[/q]
Not everyone reads ELynah. Not everyone even knows where McKee is from. Not everyone has heard of "Deep in the Heart of Texas." Not everyone who has heard it likes it. Everyone has heard "Hey Baby" and almost everyone has heard it in a sports environment. There wasn't instantaneous acclimation to the Bâby version. After there was, it was sung for several years. Also, the pep band plays Hey Baby better, whereas it took a while for their version of Deep in the Heart of Texas to even be recognizable to those who were familiar with the song.
Don't worry; give it time. It'll catch on if it's meant to be.
Eh, Leetch was born in Texas, but he grew up and was raised in my hometown in Ct and went to (private) high school, where he played hockey at Avon Old Farms outside Hartford. So he may have come "from" Texas, but his hockey life is all Connecticut-developed. He's not exactly a Texas hockey player.
Probably because everyone did do it a cappella before the band usurped it. Now no one can be heard over the band, so why bother?
*pause*
Come on, this is the part where someone from the band adopts an our-shit-don't-stink and because-we-do-it-it-must-be-great attitude and berates anyone who disagrees with them.
[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:
Probably because everyone did do it a cappella before the band usurped it. Now no one can be heard over the band, so why bother?
*pause*
Come on, this is the part where someone from the band adopts an our-shit-don't-stink and because-we-do-it-it-must-be-great attitude and berates anyone who disagrees with them.[/q]
Uh, thanks...
Actually I'm staunchly against playing that song in any context, mostly because the arrangement sounds bad when we play it (sorry KP... I like your other arrangements!), but also because I had heard section A got pissy last season when we started playing it because it was "their" cheer. The conductors will tell you that I will take any excuse to not let them play it (for example, in non-Lynah rinks where McKee defends the further goal in the second period).
I'm close to alone in this opinion among pep band leadership, though.
-Lauren
2005 Pep Band Manager
[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:
Come on, this is the part where someone from the band adopts an our-shit-don't-stink and because-we-do-it-it-must-be-great attitude and berates anyone who disagrees with them.[/q]
Pot. Kettle. Black.
George W. Bush
go ahead... shoot me... but someone has to stick up for him.
Someone got angry that the band played the song? That's close to getting angry when other people are cheering with you.
Only I may dance.
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
Just make sure the ROTC attendees don't mistake it for an Iraqi flag or there'd be one heck of a skirmish. [/q]
Iraqi? (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/flags/iz-flag.html) Um, no. Chilean (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/flags/ci-flag.html), perhaps. Until I lived in Texas (http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/flags/txflag.jpg), I wouldn't have been able to tell you which was which. I would certainly expect that ESPECIALLY our men and women in uniform have a reasonable idea what Iraq's flag looks like!
It's got a blue background, with a shield and Lady on it right? Oh wait, i keep getting it confused with my homestate of new york's ::screwy:: :-D
NOT trying to make any political statements or anything, i couldn't help but laugh when i came across this cartoon.
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~gop/weekly/weeklyimages/cartoons/Iraqi-Flag.jpg
[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:
sorry KP... [/q]
Nothin' but love.
Yeah, it's not that great. But I'm willing to bet more people are involved in the song now, as opposed to the 15 people at the bottom of A who were singing it a year ago.
Either way, I wouldn't be offended if the current band leadership decided to stop. Might actually be hott as an a cappella version now that more people are clued into it happening.
[Q]Ack Wrote:
Only I may dance. [/q]
It's my job to be repetitive. My job. My job! Repetitiveness is my job!
Then there's this one...
http://www.fotw.net/flags/iq!2004.html
[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
Then there's this one...[/q]
The Lake Superior State Muslims.