forgotten cheer

[cquinn]

The waving of hands to distract the goalie thing was around at least as early as '90-91 when I started attending games.  I had seats in row 2 of Section A and it was very popular with the fans who were at eye level with the players.

"Your Mom called" used to be a staple, but I haven't heard it once this year.  Maybe it was too hard for folks to leave out the relatively recent second verse.  Does anyone ever ring the phone bell to kick it off anymore?  Maybe we could get the whole section to set their cell phones off at once.  :-P

[melissa\'01]

i know that you were likely only joking - but that'd be really funny.

[DeltaOne81]

Personally, the new enunciation of frustrated annoys me. I dunno why, it's just like they don't know how to do it, and I always loved the old way.

I'd try to fix it by starting one myself (but now we get to my biggest pet peeve recently) no one ever waits for anything. Someone by me tried to start a frustrated chant with the score 2-1 in the first during the Hahvahd (sucks) game (maybe early second). Everything comes to early now. The keys have often started at 5 minutes left, or at least a minute or two too early. Surprisingly, the chants of "put away the keys" did nothing at all. When (and not if, I'm afraid) it's a one goal game and someone brings out the keys, I'll be all over them.

The team's success, and the related surge in demand for tickets, seem to have changed the dynamics of Lynah, because you don't just have the diehards in B and a definite "faithful gradient" as you move away. When the last people to get tickets got there in the early AM hours, everyone's kinda mixed. As I mentioned once before, I know someone who was in B last year that's in F this year.

It hurts the crowd a little bit and it hurts the cheers. It's not gonna kill anything, but with an increased number of face timers and newbies scattered around, we're gonna see more of mis-enunciated chants and stupid things like the elongated diiieee.

If the success this year is even higher (if, if, no tempting of the fates here), I'm almost afriad for next year, when every damn kid of campus will want tickets, even if they've never seen a game. I've heard a lot about Minn fans bitching - someone who had tickets for all 3 years couldn't get tickets this year because all the fair-weather, bandwagon fans . I know Schafer loves his camp-out philosphy, but in an era like this, you don't get the desired effect. You don't get the most diehard fans, just the ones with the fewest classes.

-Fred

[curoadkill]

Furthermore, my sincere gratitude to whoever it was standing in the middle of B who felt it necessary to start winning team in the middle of a play with 3:40 left in a 4 goal game. Encore, Encore.

[melissa\'01]

warning - this is a rant.

I agree about the new frustrated. sounds like crap and i can't stand it. way too many people (obviously newbies) were doing inappropriate cheers at inappropriate times. when before have we been chanting "grade inflation" from beginning to end in a Harvard game? it makes it common and less funny. also - what happened to the pass/ fail saved for brown whenever we are winning at the end of the 3rd? that has been the tradition the last few years. also - "go stat the cah" (or however you want to spell it) was by far the lesser chanted vs Harvard. yet another comical cheer reserved for one team that will be lost if the newbies can't be taught ( i realize, that to many, i myself am still a newbie and that some of the cheers many previous grads view as classic i have unknowingly played some kind of part in changing. it doesn't change the fact that it sucks tho.). i also miss the "your mom called" cheer that is now seemingly absent, as Chris pointed out. it was overused for awhile but it is still funny. i am sorry but you "DIEEEEEEE" people are horrid. horrid. horrid. and there is really only suppossed to be one you just suck in the vacuum cheer.

end of rant

what has always made lynah so special and unique hasn't been the cheers - it has been the unison in which they were chanted - the whole student body together as one HUGE and BOOMING voice. It seems as if that has been lost and I, for one, am sad about that. It was really special.

on a bright note - there seems to be less of the XXXX sucks over and over and over again this year.

[Ben Doyle 03]

Fred, I agree with you  on all points. I actually said during the Brown game "If this is what Lynah is like this year, next year is going to be terrible." My new HUGE hatred. . .those GD horns that are showing up more and more at every home game, I want to break them all. So f'ing  annoying!!! :-( :-(

(step off soap-box and exist stage left)

[judy]

care to join me in shoving those things up the owners' asses?

it's lynah. use your voice. I'm sure all of us on this forum end up with no voices after games...it's only fair. anyways...a noisemaker...that's a little wimpy isn't it?

[gwm3]

I am blanking on specifics here, but there was definitely a game last year where the opposing team scored while section D was shaking their keys at them with far too much time left in the game.  Section B gave them a nice "it's all your fault."

As for "winning team," we rarely had a lead big enough to justify doing this before the end of the game during my Lynah days.  Does it follow the same formula used for keys?   And I guess there is usually a designated individual to start it (i.e. British Dave from the Band in recent years).

[The Turkeybone]

"Winning team" guy has been a band member the past couple of years, and it gets passed on to a different person each time around.

You know, I thought the cow-bell was supposed to be passed around too, but I guess once you get a license plate, it's official ::rolleyes::

[Beeeej]

The cowbell has usually been inherited, which is different from "passed around."  And Age is still around, so there's no reason for someone to inherit it.

I imagine he probably feels similarly about his cowbell to the way certain PA announcers feel about their microphones.  :-D

Beeeej

P.S. The "winning team" cheer actually used to be an honor reserved for the person first in the ticket line at the beginning of that season.  It's only been "passed around" or inherited since that position ceased to be a really notable distinction.

[Will]

In the 2000-2001 home game against Clarkson, the friend that I brought to the game decided when we were leading 2-0 with a little less than four minutes to go that it was time to whip out the keys.  Clarkson scored shortly thereafter, snapping the shutout.  While our boys did win the game, I still remind my friend to this day not to mock the hockey gods with premature keyshaking.  ::rolleyes::

[bigggreddd77]

Actually...I can talk to my good friend (and brother) Jamie Weber who did it before Age...buuuuuttt...

As far as the cowbell is concerned...

The cowbell was actually done and inherited within the brotherhood of AEPi for a number of years during the 90's and it was supposed to stay within the fraternity.  Upon graduation, Jamie had passed the bell down to another junior member of the fraternity who would be around for a few years to carry on the tradition.  Unfortunately, his choice wasn't such a good one as both his sense of rhythm and attendance at hockey games faltered.  This is when Age stepped up to the plate...thankfully.  It would have been nice to see it remain within the fraternity...but Age has done a great job.

Now...Age...I have a challenge for you...you need to pull off the DOUBLE play...because his Senior year, Jamie actually was BOTH the bell guy AND one of the skating bears!!!

[jeh25]

Feh!  

Have you ever seen Age skate.....

[CowbellGuy]

...says the "put me in goal so I can do my best tripod impression" guy. I'll go out on a limb and say I can outskate you.

As for the cowbell situation, I'm sort of getting used to taking shit about it a couple times a year. To be honest, I'd be happy to pass it on if there were actually someone worth passing it on to. I will not duplicate Jamie's mistake. My successor needs to be around for at least two years, preferably more, not be completely arrhythmic, and go to a few away games dammit. No, I don't expect them to make it to 113 (and counting) ECAC games in a row, but a little effort to make it to the closer road trips isn't that much to ask. So far, I haven't found anyone to fit the bill. Unless you have something more constructive to contribute, Turkeybone, put a sock in it.

[CowbellGuy]

Jason Demby '99 wrote:

Now...Age...I have a challenge for you...you need to pull off the DOUBLE play...because his Senior year, Jamie actually was BOTH the bell guy AND one of the skating bears!!!

Besides, I've pretty much always done the cowbell with camcorder/camera in my face and (for a year anyway) webcam *sniff* duties. They keep me sufficiently busy.