The Single Funniest Moment...

[Greg Berge]

... in Buffalo.

This may have been mentioned on another thread, by it deserves a place of honor all its own in the archive.

We had just been heckling UNH goalie Mike Ayers mercilessly, taunting him with all the usual (and some unusual) chants and jeers.  During the ensuing stoppage the jumbotron was scanning the crowd and stopped on a middle-aged, just plain folks looking woman, and held there.  After a moment, a caption came up noting that this was Ayers' mother.  And then the camera pulled slowly back, and the friend she had next to her was leaning into the picture, talking on a cell phone.

One of the most precious memories of being a member of the Faithful I'll ever have.

[jd212]

I don't get it...    ::screwy::

[gtsully]

I thought the funniest moment was when the entire arena, in unison, decided that they had enough of those "There are 360,000 NCAA student-athletes" ads and bood lustily about halfway through the Minn./Mich. game.  That alone made it worth sticking around after The Red came up short.

[Greg Berge]

> I don't get it...

I really, really hope I don't, but do I have to explain?

[Mike]

Not necessarily a "moment" here, but the funniest outfits of the weekend must go to the three fans wearing referee jerseys...

One jersey had the name "S. Wonder" on the back... The second was "R. Charles", and the third was "H. Keller"...

[Greg Berge]

Very, very nasty, though I think leaving off the first initial would make it ten times funnier.

[CrazyLarry]

I have to go with Greg's, "Which team is the Safety School?"

[Baby_Fan]

[Q]I have to go with Greg's, "Which team is the Safety School?"[/Q]

I agree. Classic.

I also liked it when we cheered "it's all your fault!" to Ayers after the 4th goal and had the UNH fans start yelling at us.  

And...when the UNH fans started leaving after that goal...I'd like to think that the Faithful would have stuck around to cheer our team on even if they lost!

[ugarte]

Hey, Ayers!  Your Mom called. . .

[jtwcornell91]

Sully '00 wrote:
I thought the funniest moment was when the entire arena, in unison, decided that they had enough of those "There are 360,000 NCAA student-athletes" ads and bood lustily about halfway through the Minn./Mich. game.  That alone made it worth sticking around after The Red came up short.

What was great about that was that it worked.  However, the funniest part for me was when the ads got booed during the commercial breaks at the Hobey ceremony and someone had to lean over and explain to the host of the program what we were booing about.

[rhovorka]

I was really impressed how the folks at HSBC adjusted to the demands of the college hockey crowd.  I would've loved to see the scramble behind the scences as the boos got louder and louder for the NCAA stuff.  We were doing "shotput sucks!" chants during our semifinal.  Also, did anyone else notice that they changed the way they announced the 1:00 announcement?  For our game, the first time was "This is the last minute of play in the period"  But the rest of the time, it was "One minute remaining in the period."  I can't prove that the change was due to the traditional college hockey cheer of "How much time is left", but I'd like to think so.

My funniest moment comes along the same lines.  During the intermissions, they played highlights of great overtime NCAA games.  The clips were a little too long, IMO...it was a shame they didn't give the bands more time.  Anyway, back to my funniest moment.  For the first intermission of the Final, they started to show the OT of the 1999 National Championship, where Maine defeated......UNH.  About a minute or so into the film, the sound dropped out, followed by the picture being yanked with no explaination.  Again, I would've liked to have seen the scramble to the control booth when a tournament official realized that they were about to show one of the most heartbreaking losses of one of the participants in the Final.  I'm just guessing that that was the reason for yanking the video.



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[kingpin248]

[q]We were doing "shotput sucks!"[/q]
Not quite accurate. Scersk was chanting "shot put sucks!" :-D

I'm glad they got the message about those ads on Saturday. They might have been slightly more bearable had there been more then only three of them.  Maybe unveil one that hadn't been shown relentlessly during the hoops tournaments - perhaps one with, say, a hockey player?



Post Edited (04-14-03 15:45)

[rhovorka]

Matt Carberry wrote:

[q]We were doing "shotput sucks!"[/q]
Not quite accurate. Scersk was chanting "shot put sucks!" :-D

I was doing it the first 2 times.  Once he started beating it into the ground the next 12 times, I stopped.

[Chris Parkin \'03]

The funniest moment may have been during the Humanitarian presentation when Sammy called up his team and they played Davy from an old marching band recording. When the band on the recording sang, "remember me to Tee Fee Crane, THAT BITCH" there were some mighty confused/shocked fans near where I was sitting.

Ayers throwing a tantrum during the timeout after the 4th UMN goal was pretty funny too.

I don't feel like started a whole new thread but I thought classiest moment in the tournament was Thomas Vanek after the final. When the game ended the media rushed to Vanek and Gopher goalie Travis Weber for interviews. While the interviews were taking place the teams shook hands. When he was finally free of the media, Vanek skated over to the opposite blue line where the UNH team was patiently waiting for the awards to begin and made a point to shake everyone's hand on down the line. It would have been easy for him to just celebrate with his team and not bother since the hand shaking was already completed, but I thought it showed a lot of class that he went over and did that. I don't think Weber did the same. Did anyone see if he did?

[marty]

[Q]And...when the UNH fans started leaving after that goal...[/Q]

Obviously grad students who did their undergrad work at RIP!:-D