WTF???

[yougoon]

Beej - I love you, but I started the "you goon" cheer (hence my name).  I have very few claims to fame...this one is mine and I had to set it straight. ::twak::

[ugarte]

Unless your real name is David, yougoon, I now count 3 people who take credit for adding "you goon".

[Chris Parkin \'03]

http://www.rso.cornell.edu/brpep/page/media.html

About the 6th article from the bottom is probably what Larry is referring to.

[yougoon]

Nope, I'm not David, for sure (not even a guy, heavens!) I know I started it.  Here's the story:
I can't remember who we were playing, but it was about 10 years ago, and Cornell was getting literally beaten up by another team.  When a particularly nasty player was thrown in the box, everyone did the "Ah, C ya, a**hole".  Because I cannot bring myself to say the a**hole part and I had a lot of pent up anger, I stood up alone in Section C (where everyone was, and always is firmly seated) and yelled out "You're A GOON!" ::cuss::  A group of students in "B" started laughing at me (crazy woman) and the next penalty that was called, they started screaming "You goon!"  And it just sort of stuck.  That's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but.  I swear.  If anyone else lays claim, let's hear your story. ::pissed::

[SCM \'85]

We got the "It's all your fault" cheer from St. Lawrence.  I wanted to implement it the same way the Saints did, that is, near the end of the game when the Red are clearly going to win. (It's ALL your fault).  My friend, who was the leader of the "winning team, losing team" cheer thought it would be better to do it after every goal.  He started it that way @ Lynah in 1985 and it's been that way ever since and probably will never change.  I don't like it as much after every goal because it makes you rush through calling the goalie a sieve.

[Ben Doyle 03]

it's beeeej. . .not beej ::nut:: :-P

[Mike Steinfeld \'03]

What I find personally amazing is that the "Sieve Sieve sieve..." after goals has evolved since I've been here from just random amount of yelling Sieve into exactly 2 four bar phrases, in time with Davy, followed by exactly 4 bars of "It's all your fault." Believe me, myself and others (with very healthy lungs) have attempted to only yell Sieve 7 times before moving on, or once, 9 times, and people looked at us like we had an extra head.

Or maybe I'm just a band nerd. :-p

[kaelistus]

Wait.. You mean there's 8 Sieve cheers exactly?

I've been watching Cornell for over 7 years, and I never knew that! I guess it made sense to stop around there, but it never occured to me that we were all always stopping at the same time every goal.

[ugarte]

From what I can tell, the four count isn't a formalized rule, it is mob rule.  The first IIYF! always steps on a lot of fifth (and sixth) Sieve!s. The WWM also seems much more hurried now than it used to.  Do they set up the faceoff faster than they did 10 years ago?

[marty]

::nut::



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[marty]

Well I have it on good authority that Uri Geller claims he put the thought in your head that night. ::nut::

[Jim Hyla]

You got it, thanks.

[ugarte]

The U-M faithful listened to Cornell fans count up the goals after each score, antagonize the goaltender from the start and even anger the crowd by playing the Michigan State fight song.

That is inspired.  Does Mankato even have a rival?

[jtwcornell91]

Once upon a time, "*******" was only used for opponents who really deserved it, and people who felt like saying "you goon" said it right away without waiting for a phantom *******.

[jtwcornell91]

Age, your f---ing forum now censors the **** out of our g-d d--- posts!

[Edit: not very well, apparently]



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