This year/next year

[KeithK]

I mean, no one would ever call 1990-93 Bills fans "spoiled."  

I would, however, call Atlanta Braves fan of the '90s into the '00s spoiled.  They only won one WS championship and lost a couple others. But b the endof their long run of division championships they couldn't even sell out a playoff game.

Current Yankee fans are spoiled.  They rant and rave about how horrible the team is when it's been over .500 because the expectation is to have the best record in the league. Spoiled.

[KeithK]

And I still don't get why people here hate Dartmouth and Harvard but don't seem to mind Q, Union, or Yale...the latter three teams have dealt us many more crushing losses in past years than Harvard, and the reasons to hate Dartmouth (asshole coach, on-ice antics) are equally applicable to Q/U/Y.

Some of it is a time horizon thing.  Yale may have beaten us a lot more recently than Harvard but over the 20+ years I've been following CU hockey that hasn't been the case.  Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom. I dislike Union but more because they were the perenial cellar dwellawho always seemed to give good Cornell teams trouble than their recent success.

[ursusminor]

Perhaps someone can post the video of Union's Rick Bennett trying to punch out the RPI coach?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AzBqb1h1g[/video]

There are others.

[Trotsky]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

[Tcl123]

U's coach was suspended last year for trying to punch out Seth Appert after losing to RPI last year.   Not a classy gesture

You make this sound like it was a bad thing.

[Trotsky]

Q, Union, and Yale all have coaches who are complete assholes (or at least Schafer thinks so).

I'm pretty sure a poll of the 12 coaches would put Mike in the top 3 of asshole coaches, depending where Pecknold and Gaudet placed.

Mike might even vote for Mike.  :-}

[Dafatone]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

Strangely enough, Clarkson might be my favorite other team in the conference.  They have a hockey following and tradition, they have neat enough colors, and their teams tend to be not complete assholes all the time.  I guess I'm partial to NY teams, generally, too (with exceptions, such as Union and Colgate).

[KeithK]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

Strangely enough, Clarkson might be my favorite other team in the conference.  They have a hockey following and tradition, they have neat enough colors, and their teams tend to be not complete assholes all the time.  I guess I'm partial to NY teams, generally, too (with exceptions, such as Union and Colgate).

An opponent can be a rival without being a hated rival.

[Dafatone]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

Strangely enough, Clarkson might be my favorite other team in the conference.  They have a hockey following and tradition, they have neat enough colors, and their teams tend to be not complete assholes all the time.  I guess I'm partial to NY teams, generally, too (with exceptions, such as Union and Colgate).

An opponent can be a rival without being a hated rival.

Good point.  Of course, I can't think of any professional sports rivals I don't hate.

[CAS]

Thanks ursusminor for posting the video of Rick Bennett throwing haymakers. Watching it never gets tiresome.

[Trotsky]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

Strangely enough, Clarkson might be my favorite other team in the conference.  They have a hockey following and tradition, they have neat enough colors, and their teams tend to be not complete assholes all the time.  I guess I'm partial to NY teams, generally, too (with exceptions, such as Union and Colgate).

An opponent can be a rival without being a hated rival.

Good point.  Of course, I can't think of any professional sports rivals I don't hate.

I'm just missing that gene.  I don't hate the Yankees or Rangers, I don't care about the former and will even root for the latter.  Having been away from NY for 30 years probably helps, since I never have to listen to their fans.

But I don't even hate Harvard, and that worries me.  The only rival I have truly ever been able to hate is the Braves.

[Dafatone]

Perceptions of rivals can often be fixed early in fandom.

Absolutely.  AFAIC, we have two rivals: Harvard and Clarkson.  The wogs begin at Hamilton.

Strangely enough, Clarkson might be my favorite other team in the conference.  They have a hockey following and tradition, they have neat enough colors, and their teams tend to be not complete assholes all the time.  I guess I'm partial to NY teams, generally, too (with exceptions, such as Union and Colgate).

An opponent can be a rival without being a hated rival.

Good point.  Of course, I can't think of any professional sports rivals I don't hate.

I'm just missing that gene.  I don't hate the Yankees or Rangers, I don't care about the former and will even root for the latter.  Having been away from NY for 30 years probably helps, since I never have to listen to their fans.

But I don't even hate Harvard, and that worries me.  The only rival I have truly ever been able to hate is the Braves.

As long as you hate the Braves, you're good.

[ursusminor]

Thanks ursusminor for posting the video of Rick Bennett throwing haymakers. Watching it never gets tiresome.

My blood pressure always rises 20 or 30 mmHg watching Mongo attempting to get at Seth Appert.

[Trotsky]

Thanks ursusminor for posting the video of Rick Bennett throwing haymakers. Watching it never gets tiresome.

My blood pressure always rises 20 or 30 mmHg watching Mongo attempting to get at Seth Appert.

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

[cuhockey93]

Calling CU hockey spoiled is like calling the Flyers spoiled for losing like 7 cups in a row even though this will be the 2nd time they've missed the playoffs in 20 years.