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[Trotsky]

Per the broadcast of their home opener, Bright has added a fog horn that blares when they score, they now do intros in a darkened arena with follow spots, and they have ordered a video scoreboard, although it hasn't yet arrived and is on back order.

Please mock accordingly.

[oceanst41]

[quote Trotsky]Per the broadcast of their home opener, Bright has added a fog horn that blares when they score, they now do intros in a darkened arena with follow spots, and they have ordered a video scoreboard, although it hasn't yet arrived and is on back order.

Please mock accordingly.[/quote]

What better way to whip their fan into a frenzy? ::woot::

[Rich S]

why the need to mock, other than because it's Harvard.

That type of intro has been commonplace in sports for many years.  It's not my taste but I certainly do not mock it.

[ugarte]

[quote Rich S]why the need to mock, other than because it's Harvard.
[/quote]
QED. See also, Clarkson.

[Rich S]

ahhh....so you like to mock "third rate" Tech schools?  That's funny except that your boy Al is way off target with his assessment.

Better that you should mock a "third rate Ivy."

[nyc94]

Why do you let your buttons get pushed so easily?

[Beeeej]

[quote Rich S]why the need to mock, other than because it's Harvard.[/quote]

Mostly because those sorts of intros and bells-and-whistles video scoreboards are usually reserved for arenas where the fans actually, y'know, show up and care about the sporting events.

[Jim Hyla]

why the need to mock, other than because it's Harvard.

That type of intro has been commonplace in sports for many years. It's not my taste but I certainly do not mock it.

[quote Rich S]ahhh....so you like to mock "third rate" Tech schools?  That's funny except that your boy Al is way off target with his assessment.

Better that you should mock a "third rate Ivy."[/quote]

Rich, why do you have to start it all over again? No one but you has said anything about third rate. If you want to start a flame war, you certainly know how.

[LaJollaRed]

I'm a bit of an old-fashioned purist, so I beg to differ:

I've long suspected there's a direct correlation between the amount of distracting crap at a sporting event and the apathy of the fan base. I swear, sometimes you're shocked when they actually play baseball at Padres games.

When I was in high school, and for my first two years at Cornell, the San Diego Gulls (in their 3rd or 4th reincarnation) played a few unremarkable seasons. It got to the point where going to the games was intolerable: The piped in music, the cheerleaders, the excessive advertisements, the blaring, fake, "crowd noise," and the embarrassing attempts to liven up every millisecond of downtime made those games at the IpayOne Center (nee San Diego Sports Arena) just god-awful. Hockey fans stopped going, and eventually the middle-school crowd got bored too.

During this year's NBA playoffs a few old timers on ESPN mused for a few minutes about how prolonged, loud, and completely obnoxious the player introductions were. The NHL isn't as bad as the NBA when it comes to this sort of thing, but it's a dangerously thin ice sheet they're playing with. Now, I like watching players skate out of an inflatable shark's head as much as anyone else, but I don't think it adds anything to the game that it doesn't also take away. Give me the coach's daughter singing "Oh Canada" and the local dairy queen struggling through the Star Spangled banner, and I'm ready to roll. Throw in an octogenarian on organ and I'm in heaven.

The sad truth is, hockey - somehow much more than other sports - has a tough time appealing to people who didn't grow up with it. I am anomalous in this respect, I know.

Mega-Screens and "bells and whistles" are, I sadly believe, symptomatic of hockey trying to compete with the cocky, self-centered, belligerent bravado of the other major American sports leagues. Hockey's biggest fault (and, greatest attribute) is that it's not a sport that celebrates individual effort. Even with the rise of figureheads like Gretzky and (so people tell me) Crosby, the game remains about the team, and remains oddly unmarketable to people looking for Albert Bell, Michael Jordan, and Terrel Owens.

Do I fault Harvard for putting in a jumbo tron? Absolutely not. It's their prerogative to both win games and raise school spirit. But whatever mystique their rink had will slink away one season of ticket holders at a time. You can't smell the ice with your nose pointed at the replay.

[Rich S]

Jim,

The fact is that Al started the flaming by labelling Clarkson a "third rate Tech school" which is a grossly inaccurate assessment.

If you object to me pointing that out, take it up with Al.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Rich S]Jim,

The fact is that Al started the flaming by labelling Clarkson a "third rate Tech school" which is a grossly inaccurate assessment.

If you object to me pointing that out, take it up with Al.[/quote]

Al hasn't posted in this thread, so I don't see how that's relevant here.

[nyc94]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Rich S]Jim,

The fact is that Al started the flaming by labelling Clarkson a "third rate Tech school" which is a grossly inaccurate assessment.

If you object to me pointing that out, take it up with Al.[/quote]

Al hasn't posted in this thread, so I don't see how that's relevant here.[/quote]

Maybe YOU should take it up with Al privately and stop clogging a discussion about Bright.  On the other hand, if you have something constructive to say on the topic of fog horns and Jumbotrons. . .

[Rich S]

I expressed my opinion on them earlier in this thread.  Maybe you should read more carefully.

[Scersk '97]

LaJollaRed's post is a well-tuned Wurlitzer of wisdom.  Hear, hear.

[nyc94]

[quote Rich S]I expressed my opinion on them earlier in this thread.  Maybe you should read more carefully.[/quote]

There you go again.  I saw your one post on the topic. I also read your multiple others.