The Single Funniest Moment...

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

A different "stop harassing the goalie" story...

In the 1980 ECAC tournament we were mercilessly harassing Bob Gaudet, Dartmouth's Goalie, now coach, during warm-ups (Ugly sieve!).  He actually winged a puck into the crowd.  It was nowhere near us, but it got us going even more, especially after we beat Dartmouth.

Well, a couple weeks later we were playing Dartmouth in the NCAA consolation match.  We started in on Gaudet in warm-ups again.  After taking his reps, he skates over to us at the glass and says "Guys, you've been doing this shit for 3 games.  Could you please give it a rest?"

Nice to know you're getting through!

JH

[gtsully]

Okay, I hate to brag, but I think I've got a story that'll put these all to shame... :-D

For the home Harvard game in '99-'00, myself and six others decided to paint the letters JR SUCKS on our chests in reference to Harvard seive J.R. Prestifilippo, who actually was probably the best goalie in the league at the time.  The game was a pretty tight one, won 2-1 by Harvard (the last time they won at Lynah).  J.R. played great, as usual, and after the game, we were all lingering in our seats in the front of section A, putting our shirts back on and gathering all of our things, when this 50-something, white-haired guy in a Harvard jacket comes over and starts talking to us.

He says something to the effect of "you guys are great, you're the best fans I've ever seen.  I've been coming here for four years and my son's really gonna miss playing here."  So my friend Johnny says "your son?" to which he replies, "yeah, J.R. Prestifilippo."

Yup - J.R.'s dad thought we were phenomenal, even after we asked him, two or three times, if I'm not mistaken, "you DID see what we had written on our chests, right?"  Really nice guy - we told him we were going to the game in Cambridge and to keep his eyes open for us, and he just laughed and kept saying "you guys are great, this place is great."  I don't think he believed us about going to Cambridge, so he must have loved it when we painted the same thing in Bright before the team dropped four goals on J.R. and he got pulled in favor of Oliver Jonas (of course, we changed our R into an A and recruited three other guys to help us spell JONAS SUCKS for the rest of the game).

There was more fun with J.R.'s parents in the playoffs that year, but this is getting kind of long, so I'll have to save that for another time.  Needless to say, I enjoyed the J.R. Prestifilippo era... :-}

[kingpin248]

In the playoff series against Harvard in 99/00 (I don't recall which game), a bandie decided to get a little creative with the spelling cheer.  He yelled:

"Give me an F! Give me a U! Give me a J! Give me an R! What does that spell? F U J R!"

Even the cops were impressed by that one.

[LetsGoRed]

Anybody remember the "hey prestifilippo, your mom puts the 'S' in SUCKS!" cheer we had going during the playoffs that year?  Or was it supermom the next year who put the S in sucks?  My memory is fading.. *sigh*

In either case it was funny.

[Greg Berge]

In high school I knew the son of an N.L. administrator, so we used to be comped to Mets games and sat in the players' family section (sa-weet, even it was the 1981 Mets).  Needless to say we *never* gave any player crap.  However, George Foster's wife used to sit a few seats away from us, and she gave George unremitting shit all game, every game, making the funniest off-color cracks you'll ever hear and having the entire section peeing their pants.  She could make the Lynah first team any day.



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[gtsully]

It was that Harvard game, when a bunch of Harvard fans (including JR's family) had t-shirts made (in direct response to my row, if I can get one more self-plug in :-P ) that spelled out CORNELL SUCKS.  And JR's mom - who was actually foolish enough to bring a big sign that said "I'm JR's Mom!!!" - was the first S.

When those band members yelled that out... well, that might have been the funniest spur of the moment cheer I'd ever heard at Lynah (and at my final game, too...).



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[jtwcornell91]

JR's Mom and company were definitely a fun part of that weekend (which also featured the infamous drunken slurred "HARVARD IS IN CAMBRIDGE...[etc]" cheer).  If only Hahvahd sent such enthusiastic fans to Lynah on a regular basis.

[Lowell '99]

The F U, JR cheer is the funniest cheer I've ever heard, hands down.  I was in Section O (sucks) for it, and it could clearly see/hear it.  Not only was the creativity there, but the  delivery was perfect, with clearly enunciated "Give - Me - An - 'F'!".  A tip of the cap to Mr. Leigh Bernstein '00, and I'm not just saying this because he was my Hausmate for a year.



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[jeh25]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

JR's Mom and company were definitely a fun part of that weekend (which also featured the infamous drunken slurred "HARVARD IS IN CAMBRIDGE...[etc]" cheer).  If only Hahvahd sent such enthusiastic fans to Lynah on a regular basis.

For the record, I think it was really stoned, not drunk as those guys became known to some of us as the "Cornell Smoking Team", particularly after they liberated (and consumed) an entire food service sized flat of hotdog buns at LP that year.

Anyway, the cheer when something like this:

Harvard is in Cambridge
Cambridge is in Boston
Boston's in Massachusetts
Two shits! Two Shits!

(the alternate ending was You're all douches!)

[jeh25]

Sully '00 wrote:
  I don't think he believed us about going to Cambridge, so he must have loved it when we painted the same thing in Bright before the team dropped four goals on J.R. and he got pulled in favor of Oliver Jonas (of course, we changed our R into an A and recruited three other guys to help us spell JONAS SUCKS for the rest of the game).

Which letter were you? I'm the N as evidenced by the (now gone) grad student sloth gut.  Adam Ganderson MIT '97 Cornell '? Yale '05 is the exclamation point.  (talk about a trifecta of schools that hate Harvard). I'm thinking Lynch is the A?





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[jeh25]

Keith K '93 wrote:
Also reminds me of the game at Brown back in 11/01.  If you've been to Meehan, you know that the walkways at the ends of the rink essentially hang over the ice so you can be almost on top of the goalie.  A couple of us decided to go heckle Brian Ecklund from that perch in the third period.  We were giving him hell when this little girl, couldn't be more than seven, comes over to us.  She starts screaming at us, telling us to stop yelling at her cousin.  We tried to be ignore her or placate her nicely, but what do you say to a seven year old?  She was on the verge of tears by the time she ran away.  I felt a little bad about it, but what are you going to do?

a) She was 6.

b) She did actually kick me.

c) I did see her crying later and felt really bad.

d) Not sure but I think it was you, me and Hovorka? unleashing a stream of vitriol that would make a drunken sailor with Tourettes proud. Brown really shouldn't leave 3 folding chairs right there when Cornell comes to town.



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[KeithK]

Yup, it was you, me and Hovorka.

[rhovorka]

Keith K '93 wrote:

Yup, it was you, me and Hovorka.

Yepper.  Good times...  It was definitely Brian Eklund right below us, and it was a great perch to watch the PP suceed.



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[jtwcornell91]

John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:
For the record, I think it was really stoned, not drunk as those guys became known to some of us as the "Cornell Smoking Team"

Wait, that was the Cornell Smoking Team too?  Cool. ::laugh::

Anyway, the cheer when something like this:

Harvard is in Cambridge
Cambridge is in Boston
Boston's in Massachusetts
Two shits! Two Shits!

(the alternate ending was You're all douches!)

Actually, the version I remember Molly telling at Joe's the following night, and which I've repeated, ended with
[Q]
Boston is in Massachusetts
Two shits! Two Shits!
You're all douches!
[/Q]
So as to be as long as possible and not fit any meter.  It's also very important to pause way too long between each line and make it sound like it's a strugle to maintain equlibrium, let alone the power of speech.  (I actually heard the "cheer" from C, but of course at the time it sounded like "Ahhguugaaahhg...")  That weekend was so much fun.

"Burt ... puttin' on the hurt!"

[gtsully]

[Q]John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:

Which letter were you? I'm the N as evidenced by the (now gone) grad student sloth gut. Adam Ganderson MIT '97 Cornell '? Yale '05 is the exclamation point. (talk about a trifecta of schools that hate Harvard). I'm thinking Lynch is the A?[/Q]


Man, I haven't seen a full shot of all of us since the one that was in the Sun.  Lynch was the R turned A, I was the J - and basically the whole word "SUCKS" were our pledges.  Good times...

(Sidenote - Lynch is now in Iraq with the army, but I know he would have loved to be at the Frozen Four.  Hopefully he'll be back soon.)

I think that girl two rows above the first S (whose name is Matt), is the one who started chanting "Let's Go Har-vard!" really loud when we started the "We can't hear you!" chant at the entire other side of the rink.  Of course, for her efforts, she got a few "Good fan!" chants, while the rest of the Harvard, um, "fans" got the "Bad fans!" thrown their way.  There's no better way to shut up a good fan than to tell her she's the ONLY good fan in a pathetic fan base.

And it's good to put some names on the board to faces, also.  How was your Florida trip?



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