Terrible Red Towels

[Oat]

Terrible Red Towels!!!!! GOOD FRIKKIN IDEA!!!!   Who's gonna invest?

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:
Unless you're in C, in which case you should, naturally, wear red.[/q]
What about pink?  ::help::

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Actually, the ushers at the Wacko handed them to you as you walked through the door.   And they did it for two nights with two different sponsors.

Of course, since the Flyers lost that series, I don't think I've ever seen anybody wearing one since.

[Trotsky]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:What about pink?   [/q]

Not that there's anything with that.

[A-ron]

Does anyone know who provided the large foam fingers for the first game of 2003?  From what I remember in Section D, there was a "go big red" foam finger on every seat (numbered bench spot) when I walked in.  The large fingers looked quite good while pointing out that their goalie was a sieve.  I was wondering who thought of this idea and then who paid for it.  I personally thought it was a great idea.  I've brought my finger to every game since and have been asked multiple times where I bought it...I guess they don't sell them at the campus store, you just had to be at that game.

By the way, although the opposing team can hear the faithful, they rarely actually look up into the stands.  The only time that a majority of the opposing team does let themselves lose focus is during the newspapers at the beginning of the game.  Most of them can't help glancing up at the sea of Cornell Daily Suns.  Another uniform visual distraction in the entire rink might be a great idea.  Now, if only Snapple would sponsor terrible red towels and play one less commercial with Jim and his keyboard over the radio...

[Josh '99]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:
Actually, the ushers at the Wacko handed them to you as you walked through the door.   And they did it for two nights with two different sponsors.

Of course, since the Flyers lost that series, I don't think I've ever seen anybody wearing one since.[/q]"The Wacko" is the best nickname for a venue I've heard in a long time.  B-]

[cornelldavy]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:
Of course, since the Flyers lost that series, I don't think I've ever seen anybody wearing one since.[/q]

I wear my Orange Crush shirt now and then. Here in LA, nobody understands what it means.

[The Rancor]

the only one allowed to where pink in lynah is steve silverthorn

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

"The Wacko" is the best nickname for a venue I've heard in a long time.   [/q]

Better than its previous name "The F.U. Center"?

[gtsully]

Somebody brought the towel idea up for the Frozen Four two years ago, but I don't think anything really came of it.  I'm not wild about it (how many home playoff games have the Steelers lost over the last ten years again?), but I do wish more people would wear red and/or white at Lynah.

As far as getting the university behind any marketing, they've twice promoted the Scholkopf Sell-out (unsuccessfully once, not sure how the second one turned out).  So I don't think they'd dismiss the idea as easily as some people have suggested.

[HeafDog]

[Q]jtwcornell91 wrote:

On the other hand, I still think it'd be cool to have red-and-white Cornell Hockey fan scarves in the style used by European soccer and hockey clubs. I've been seeing more of those Stateside lately, e.g., for USA Soccer, and several of the Union parents had Union College scarves in that style.
[/Q]
The European soccer scarves idea is an excellent one.  The soccer fans (at least in Paris, which I have to admit is the only place I've seen a European soccer game) are downright fanatical, and we could really learn a few things from them (except for maybe the whole thing about lighting fires in the stands and people dying in stampedes and all that stuff).  They also hold up their scarves at particular points during the game, like when they're singing a particular song, and that makes entire sections of their fans look amazing.  So, if we somehow adopt the scarf idea, I'd suggest that a new tradition gets introduced, where the scarves are held up during a particular song or chant.

What's even nicer about the scarf idea is that hockey is a winter sport, so it makes even more sense than wearing scarves for soccer, which traditionally takes a hiatus during the winter months (when you actually need a scarf).

[Q]Luke 05 wrote:

A smattering of Union fans had the scarves on saturday. I was not that impressed.
[/Q]
It probably wasn't impressive because it was only a smattering.  And heck, it was Union.  I mean, come on.  Union sucks.

[Q]billhoward wrote:

All-red is a good idea provided we're not playing BU or Union or Wisconsin ... or perhaps BC or Harvard or someone else with a reddish-cast school color.
[/Q]
Speaking of Union, I imagine billhoward is referring to fellow Capital District team RPI.  Union wears some sort of bluish and maroon number, if I remember correctly, whereas RPI wears red.

But in the meantime, the C of Red idea is also a perfectly good one, and I don't really see why it wouldn't work.  As someone said above, circulating the word through dorms and across campus and over the airwaves would probably do the trick.