forgotten cheer

[Chris 02]

I had the seat in the front corner of B nearest the opposing goalie last year....always made it a point to do the arm waving thing.  I never noticed any opposing players paying particular attention.  Nor do I recall ever us scoring a goal off of the faceoff.  

But I NEVER DID IT when Underhill or LeNeveu was at that end.  Mostly then, people in the first couple rows would make fun of the opposing teams names (for those teams that were dumb enough to have names on travel jerseys).  That part of the "cheering"/jeering was annoying at first, but it was possibily effective anyway.

[Scott Kominkiewicz \'84]

Ahh, Prestifilipo.

Skate, skate, skate, tuuuuuuuuuuuuurn.

Skate, skate, skate, skate, tuuuuuuuuuuun.

Skate, skate, stop!

Bend over.

[gwm3]

[Q]But I NEVER DID IT when Underhill or LeNeveu was at that end[/Q]

Now Burt on the other hand... ;-)   Just kidding.


I can't remember any quick goals off the faceoff in the time I sat in B.  The closest thing I can remember to a goal off of the face off was Kozier's overtime goal in game one of the Princeton QF in '01.  But I think that might have been on a faceoff from the other side... even if it wasn't, I'm sure the arm waving played no role.

But even if it serves no practical purpose I think it was still an ok "cheer."

[Josh '99]

Heh.  I still prefer Mike Walsh.  (And we get to do his one more game.)

Skate, skate, skate, tuuuuuuurn.

Skate, skate, skate, stop.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.

Bend over.


That much tapping is asking for it, as far as I'm concerned.  :-)

[KeithK]

> people in the first couple rows would make fun of the opposing teams
> names (for those teams that were dumb enough to have names on
> travel jerseys).

That's why you buy a program.  They still have numbers.

[Beeeej]

[q]I can't remember any quick goals off the faceoff in the time I sat in B. The closest thing I can remember to a goal off of the face off was Kozier's overtime goal in game one of the Princeton QF in '01. But I think that might have been on a faceoff from the other side...[/q]

The most beautiful goal off a faceoff that I've ever seen at Lynah was from a face-off on the student side.  Nov. 8, 1997, we were down 3-1 to Brown with 6:20 left in the game.  Moynihan scored to make it 3-2 with 4:01 left, then during a stoppage with 1:25 left, Schafer pulled Elliott for the face-off in the Brown end on the Section B side.  In a play that lasted literally three seconds from face-off to goal, Vinnie Auger won the face-off, and while the five other Big Red players got their sticks around the Brown sticks and held them in place as well as they could, Jason Dailey took the puck, skated a lovely little S-curve around them all and put the puck over Jeff Holowaty's shoulder to tie it at 3-3.

The rest is history, of course; Kyle Knopp scored the go-ahead with 1:02 left, and Brown pulled Holowaty, but to no avail.  You don't see both teams pull their goalie in one game very often.

I don't ever remember the Faithful being louder in my fifteen years watching games there.  Lord, I love remembering that game.  And I don't even need "Live at Lynah" to do it.

Beeeej

[DeltaOne81]

a) What's with all these people using the wrong kind of brackets? ::twitch::

b) Isn't that interference? ::laugh::

[Jeff Hardgrove \'01]

Okay...

And the most unfortunate goal off a faceoff...

1999-2000 season, glass seats, section D, harvard game, with harvard skating left to right.  I took it upon myself to taunt their right defenseman who would set up 3 feet in front of me on offensive zone draws.  On this particular face off the RD was future captain Peter (STAND UP!) Capouch, who late in the season only had two goals. Right before one draw I loudly reminded him of this fact, at which point the center cleanly won it back to Capouch who lit the lamp with a pretty little one timer.  I'm pretty sure he just wanted to get his name on the loud speaker so I'd stop saying "ca-POOCH."  So, I apologize, fortunately it wasn't a game deciding goal, although I lost some section D freinds that night...

And in reference to the waving cheer - it's clever, but I agree, useless - the centers are both busy staring at the little black disc in the linesmans hand, and then following it to the ice.  

-Jeff

[KeithK]

As Pete Tufford said on the radio: the ref could've put five guys in the box on that play, and might have earlier in the game...

[mha]

I think the volume of the last several minutes on January 30th, 1998 against Clarkson outdid it.

Rick Sacchetti went off on a five-minute major with seven minutes left, giving Clarkson five minutes of five-on-four to try to snap Cornell's 2-1 lead. The crowd was on its feet, and the roar was deafening, that whole five minutes. I called it "Red Thunder," and while I've been impressed with the volume for several seconds at a time, several times since, including this Friday night, nothing has come close.

(We held on to win.)

[jason]

A treeee-mendous game. I too was in attendance for that comeback against Brown --in Section O. The sweetest part was the group of Brown fans --including a particularly loud mouthed girl-- in the row in front of my friends and I who seemed to spend more of the third period turned around talking smack to us than watching the actual game play. The look of disbelief/devastation on that girl's face as we celebrated the final moments of the game is indelibly marked in my memory. Good times...

[curoadkill]

Three things:
-The "so and so returns to full strength they still suck" cheer was still around my freshman year after Arthur stopped announcing the end of power plays. I always thought it was something largely continued by the band. Once the band became athletics public enemy number one and the word suck was a mortal sin, the band couldn't say or lead it (or anything with the word suck in it for that matter) anymore and it died.

-I guess evolution of cheering is part of the oral tradition of the Lynah Faithful, but the way the "Remote Control Sieve" cheer as Rich H calls it(skate skate skate etc.) has changed over the past few years is a little sad. I've always thought it was much more effective to say what the goalie is doing when he is doing it. (e.g. when he pushes off with one foot "skate" then the next "skate" It's not a rhythmic thing.) It's far more effective to make him aware of his every tick and movement instead of tell him what to do. Walsh is a great example with sweeeeep, tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.
This evolution came to a new climax this weekend when all of the student section started chanting "bend over, bend over" in the second period in an attempt to make Yann bend over.
I think the idea is to get in the guy's head and this is best achieved by saying what he's doing. I remember back in fall 2000 I believe it was when we played Maine the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Morrisson came into Lynah and had a whole routine. We started saying everything he'd do. Then he started stopping midtream and changing things just to throw US off. A bone head play by him behind the net later it was a tie game.

-For the love of all things holy, at the end of Black Hole, say "you just suck" ONCE! If it ever happens again, you'll hear the incredible way it resonates in an otherwise silent rink. It's similar to how swanee can resonate without bone heads holding things out just to hear themselves yelling.

[bigggreddd77]

OK...again...as most of us realize, the point of the waving of the hands is clearly to distract the OPPOSING GOALTENDER.  Back in my section B days, we always did it.  Also...even if people are saying that they are trying to distract the opposing player taking the faceoff...if our goaltender is in net, you're going to be trying to distract OUR center...not theirs...

And...at least in warmups...you can definitely get the attention of the opposing players...don't underestimate how much they see you or pay attention.  I've gotten a few stares...and almost a puck in the face...from opposing players...especially those Colgate guys...

[Adam \'01]

I remember that Tuesday night game against Maine also.  There's no doubt that we got into Morrisson's head and as I recall he tried to feebly knock the goal over on top of the puck as it sailed in for our lone goal.  A desperate move, and who knows, if he had stuck to his normal routine instead of trying to throw THE CROWD off, he might have been in a better position to make the play.

Of course despite getting in his head, we only managed a tie.....so we all got to go home for Thanksgiving and kiss our sisters  ::nut::

[rhovorka]

Well, I've often said that the cheers of the Lynah Faithful are one of the last great examples of Oral Tradition in society, despite a few efforts to document them both online and with cheer-sheets.  I've been going to games for over 10 years now, and have seen a good number of cheers evolve...some good, some bad.  Whether you like them or not, the cheers are what they are.  This thread sparked a few thoughts:

1.  Strategically placed silence can be a powerful thing, especially with the reverb quality of the arena.  But noise will always win over silence.  Examples:
* "See ya!"  the a-hole/goon tag was only used in deserved instances.  Changed around '97 and was the source of much tension between the admin and student section.  Led to the aux. police and pleas of coach Schafer to tone down the language.  I think Michigan has had similar evolution since it was introduced to them in 1991.
* "You just suck!" (1 time only) after Black Hole.
* "DIE!"  vs. "Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee"  a recent battle, generally confined to the lower part of A, but could spread soon.  Horrible.
* Screw BU.  BU last came to Lynah in '93, and it was definitely "Screw BU, BU too" then.  At Walter Brown last  year, we managed to eventually get the word out in our section that it was to be "Screw BU" only.  Having the band shorten the pause helps a lot.

2.  The screaming/waving hands to distract the goaltender thing sorta started up around '95.  I had a friend who wanted to do something, but couldn't think of anything, so he just pointed and screamed.  B heard the screaming, and people added the waving hands.  It was particularly funny on televised games, because it would totally block out the camera's view.

3. "Remote control" Changed because of D-F's love of the phrase "Bend over"  It became an obsession.  The amount of glee that the bending over brings to those sections is almost funny.  Up until last year, A-B did the original, and D-F just demanded the "bend over" despite what the goaltender did.  This year, the modified version is now in A-B.  While I was in the band, we used to do the "remote control shovel guy" to control the actions of the rink staff member who had to clean up the zamboni droppings.  "Shovel, scrape, walk, TOSS!"  Sometimes even that guy would play with us to try to throw us off.

4. The "mom called" cheer seems to be now a solo performance with creative variations for someone in E or F.  I try to hear it, but I'm at a bad angle, and sometimes he does it during an announcement, like on Saturday.

5. Even inflections change.  "Frus-TRAAA-ted" has now morphed into "FRUUUS-trated."  A little more awkward, but whatever.

6. Arthur wasn't saying "returns to full strength" as of '92-'93.  The only rinks I went to that still did were Starr and the Syracuse Hockey Invitational Tournament (may it rest in hell).

7. Interesting to see the effect of "Live at Lynah."  We came up with a few original cheers (embarrasment to hockey program...) and did some not-so-common ones (sieve spell-out), simply because there were microphones present, and they became regular cheers.

8. "Townies Up" used to be used only for very tense 1-goal games.  Almost as if the students were asking for help to get that last goal or defensive stand.  And the other sections did respond with much vigor and cheering.  Doing it now for each and every 8-0 blowout makes it a little less special, and it's almost as if the seated sections are saying "uhhh, OK, we'll get up, I guess."  Again, whatever.