ELynah Forum

Lenard, we're the other group in Section 15, Row D.  We'll make sure your sister can squeeze in somewhere.  That'll be a really friendly area of the arena where Cornell fans can easily find a chunk of space to stand.

It's game week.

Who's going?  Where ya sittin'?

My group has nine tickets in Section 15, Row D.

The hotel downtown was the Capitol Hill Hilton.  Nice digs and decent food.  Also generally better for Friday night games, since a lot of alums work in the city and it's easier to get to by game time.

"Coach, he's been like that for 3 years.  I think it's FINALLY time we put him down."

I am shocked that neither Dave Francis nor his "Momma" made the list.

Clearly Harvard sorely misses the services of Aaron Kim. :-P

Nevermind.  Error messages stopped on my third try.  Maybe we're just overloading their servers tonight. ;-)

Is anyone else getting error messages when trying to log in to i2sports tonight??

Well, one idea is not to buy anything while you're at the game.  No soda, no hot dog, no hot chocolate.  Small, but better than nothing.

My friends Sam '02, Dave '02, Graham '02 and I wrote a letter to the NY Times about the January 9th Harvard ticket plan.  It sparked some interest there and I had a couple of conversations with their college hockey writer.  If you want to read his brief article on the issue, see the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/sports/hockey/03HOCK.html


Also, here is the text of our orginal letter:

Dear NY Times,

In the pantheon of college athletics, men's ice hockey doesn't garner the same degree of attention as its big brothers of the gridiron or hardwood.  However, once a year, when the Big Red of Cornell University travel to Cambridge to take on the Harvard University Crimson, the college sporting world takes notice.  On January 9th, 2004, the yearly match up will commence and, if prior years are any indication, Harvard's Bright Hockey Center will be filled to capacity almost exclusively with Cornell fans.  Yet this year is very different than others in the history of this storied rivalry; especially from a fan's point of view.

The Harvard Athletics Department has decided to disallow the sale of single game tickets to the Cornell game.  The January 9th tilt is the only game of the season with such a restriction.  Instead of the customary system, fans who wish to view this important ECAC and Ivy League game must buy either season tickets or an overpriced 4-game package from Harvard.  The obvious intention is to keep Bright Hockey Center from becoming "Lynah East" for yet another year.

The distinct odor of extortion is making fans gag.  In Harvard's pitiful attempt to avoid the embarrassment of their own students' blatant apathy, they've tried to make it very hard for Cornell fans to attend the event.  Despite repeated requests from Cornell students, alumni, and even administrators, the Harvard Athletics Department has refused to back down from this lousy ticket policy.  The ironic thing about the department's impassioned stance is that it's the most spirited thing to come out of Harvard in eons.

Why should fans who actually want to see the game be punished for Harvard students' inability to care about anything, let alone one of their sports teams?  Was this joke of a ticket policy really necessary?  When January 9th comes, it's inevitable that Harvard Athletics will learn a first hand lesson about spirit and passion when the Big Red's faithful fans find a way to infiltrate Bright Hockey Center.  

But one must wonder, will Harvard students even care?

A few other names that have been suggested to me are:

Don Zimmer
Bobby Knight
Janet Reno
The "Yeah Dougie Yeah" guy from Section B

We could get Steve Spurrier.  He should be looking for a job soon (and yes, I'm a Redskins fan).

The Fun-n-Gun would be an interesting addition to the Ivy mileux.

Safer to call him a "freshman prospect."  Last time we had a "sophomore prospect" he bolted for the Valley of the Sun.

Cornell has a basketball team??

Hmmm, curious.

"Too many minutes in the penalty box makes a guy sorta lonely."