ELynah Forum

I noticed that.  It contrasted rather violently with their on-air analysis, which consisted of Dartmouth being the "best team evar," but what can you expect from the opposing team's announcers?

The other thing that caught my attention was when they heard the Cornell fans cheering, and wondered aloud on the air why they were cheering when they had so little to cheer for.  That seemed a bit unprofessional to me, but again, you can't expect stellar treatment from the opposing team's announcers.

he did say it looked like the "goldberg spear"

they did just invoke the "bottle incident"

pipe.  so close

hearing the band play the goon song over brown's radio broadcast = :-D

[Q]Trigger Wrote:

the whole student section jumps up and down [/q]

Why does this bring to mind the image of line of dominoes toppling each other over?

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Penn's basketball fans had one of the all-time best cheers when they made it to the NCAA Final Four and get blown apart by Magic Johnson's Spartans. This may not have been the first usage, but I believe it was at the time the most publicized usage of the chant,

That's all right / That's okay / You're gonna work / For us someday.

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That's used by the fans of a lot of schools that are considered to be on a higher academic tier (see: Rice football fans, among others).

Also, while not in any sort of a formal cheer format, I did hear someone in D or E yelling something to that effect.

If you want to be particularly derogitory, there was the cheer that erupted in the stands at the Cornell/Ithaca College club game during the line last year: "Flip My Burger (clap clap clapclapclap)."  There were a lot of IC kids at the game (for a club game) and they were not happy about that one.

[Q]Chris '03 Wrote:

 [Q2]Oat Wrote:

 No one was there to lead us today after time expired (or maybe someone did? and I missed it?)
If we can't do "Which team is the winning team..."  the cheer should be:

Which school is an ivy league?
(This school is an ivy league)  -->

Which school is a safety school?
<-- (This school is a safety school)

(ivy league) -->

<-- (safety school)

We used to do this chant quite often two years ago when our team couldn't win (basically whenever vesce line failed to produce)

This only works if we're playing dirty state schools. So we better not lose to ivy teams.

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Anyone else find it ironic that this "cheer" isn't even in remotely proper english? "Which school is an ivy league?" Come on now... one school a league does not make.

I don't think you need to go looking to fill the void of "winning team" when the team doesn't win. I don't think the band should come up with a song besides "Schafer" to play after losses. I think there are nice traditions that go along with winning and I think that the absence of such traditions after a loss is important.[/q]


I think keeping an arrow like this in the quiver could come in handy in case we run into another team as classless as MSU.  Reminding them that they are a safety school may be a low blow, but I certainly find it preferable to watching people launch whatever projectiles are at hand onto the ice.  What's furthermore, in the case of a team that is intentionally trying to rile the crowd, having the crowd unify in a cheer certainly makes a stronger statement than the scattered lashing out of a few irresponsible individuals.

That being said, if the other team acts respectfully, then maybe we can consider letting them leave the ice in peace.

I have to say that I don't think Ole Ole would work for hockey... and most other soccer cheers that I am aware of are very club specific

He seemed to deal with them pretty effectively during the intermission.  I don't know what he said in the locker room, but whatever it was it worked, because they came to play and then some the third period.  Hopefully the embarrassment resulting from the 2nd period sticks with them the whole season such that they never lose sight of the fact that they are on the ice playing a game again.