How To Be a Good Fan

[A-19]

you know, this sorta thing (cheer sheet) reminds me (in principle) of the whole duke cheer sheets mess. i hand it to the cam' crazies, they're very creative. most amusing recent escapade: maryland player nick caner-medley was arrested for a drunken fight, and he reportedly screamed out "you can't beat me, i'm from maryland" as he was taken away in cuffs. at the next game, the sheets indicated the info to all the students, and in rounds the two halves of the stadium commenced "i'm from maryland" and "you can't beat me." that's too good. some other game, a guy came dressed in a huge milk carton: missing jumpshot.

but back to the point. yes, these people spend hours researching lurid details of opponents' pasts, and get far worse details than the faithful generally do. (and if you thought the phone number/parents name thing crosses the line...). however, these kids who run the operation are like the cheering nazis of cameron indoor. they have to pass out these ridiculous cheer sheets in the thousands to the fans, who just repeat things, instead of coming up with them on their own. what i like about lynah is that it's so freewheeling. nobody tells (told) me what to say, and that was the best. there's alot more creativity in the approach, even if it isn't as far-reaching into the dark pasts of the opponents.

-mike

[A-19]

in addition, "i'd rather be dead than red."
well, i'd rather spell "impersonator" correctly on a sheet i plan to give to thousands of people which espouses my school pride and represents my education.

[jy3]

[Q]
I disagree with one thing in particular...any top goalie who is focused and on his game, might "hear" the fans yelling BUT they block it out.  Actually, most players do that.  As a former goalie and current coach, I believe that heckling is overrated re: upsetting players, but if it gets the fans into the game, so be it. [/q]

well we know that a certain dartmouth college goaltender whose name is quite similar to that of a waterboy turned devilsgame i mean football player was ALWAYS able to block out the cheers of section A

i laugh every time i think about that goal...:-D

[peterg]

I have to agree with RichS - it's kind of sad that this was necessary at Clarkson.  I can remember a trip up around 1980 or 1981.  Brian Hayward was in net.  He'll still tell you he can hear that bell.  It was a horrible result (a 10-3 loss, or maybe 12-2? - just horrible), but the atmosphere in the old rink was incredible.  Oh, and that bell.  The crowd needed no prompting and it was as tough a place to play as any - I dare say as tough or tougher than Lynah was then or is now.  Did I mention the bell?

[CM cWo 44]

Most of their fans were pretty passionless at the game, especially considering that it was senior night. The students gave the obligatory f*** Cornell chant (and were obviously not repremanded), and followed their cheer sheets like good little soldiers.
The one thing that did impressed me, was that they all new the anti-Cornell remix to Cayuga's Waters ("there is a funny smell"... you know how it goes), which impresses me even more that I realize it wasn't on the cheer sheet.
This of course resulted in subsequent embarassment, when they were instructed to sing their own alma mater for the seniors, and no one knew the words (good thing the band knew it). Just a few thoughts from the game
---> and props to the Cornell fans for turning the "Let's go Tech" chant into a resounding "discotech" chant... hillarious

[KeithK]

[q] Most of their fans were pretty passionless at the game, especially considering that it was senior night.[/q]A couple people have made this comment.  It seems to me that Senior night isn't an event that's going to really bring out the passion in the crowd unless they already have plenty to be thankful to the seniors for.  When the team has performed poorly the crowd isn't going to be much into it, period.  Yes, ideally we should all be good sports and such and respect the ffort that the seniors have put in, yada yada blah blah.  But the reality is it's not surprising when the results on the ice aren't good.  If and when Clarkson turns it around I'm sure their fans will be as rabid as ever.

[Trotsky]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:When the team has performed poorly the crowd isn't going to be much into it[/q]

They ought to be.  It means they're leaving. ;-)

[puff]

Speaking of the crazies from duke... the depth of the operation that led to the missing jordan jersey from nc state a while back is amazing. That took craftiness, creativity and extreme dedication.

[Josh '99]

Oh, and by the way...  "You're a big puss"?  Laaaaaaaame.

[Facetimer]

[Q]RichS Wrote:

 It's somewhat sad to see that they found it necessary to put out these instructions.  [/q]

Yeah, these Clarkson fans are so dumb in that they need instruction on how to cheer.

http://www.elynah.com/?cheers

::stupid::

[Ben Rocky '04]

The announcer proudly stating that in their 4 year careers that they had 56 wins was the best moment of the night.

[CM cWo 44]

Hey, that's a lot of wins.... oh wait, they've lost 63 games too.

[RichS]

Well, they were pretty passionate in the Todd White era but many of you guys may not remember that.

cornell wasn't as strong then and the Faithful had an off night the time I was there during White's senior year...'96-'97.  So "off" that they actually cheered White respectfully as a legit Hobey candidate after he put on a dominating performance.

And here's something to reflect on.  In '97 and '99, when I saw Clarkson win at Lynah, both of which clinched the reg season title, I experienced some over the line behavior directed at Clarkson fans.  Interesting that in the most recent two trips to Lynah when corenll dominated from the first minute and won rather easily, th evisiting fans were treated much better.

Hmmm....and it seems that same dynamic is at hand currently at Cheel from the coments of you guys who were there the past couple of years.

[ugarte]

[Q]RichS Wrote:

 Well, they were pretty passionate in the Todd White era but many of you guys may not remember that.

cornell wasn't as strong then and the Faithful had an off night the time I was there during White's senior year...'96-'97.  So "off" that they actually cheered White respectfully as a legit Hobey candidate after he put on a dominating performance.[/q]Of course we remember! That is when we got passionate about deriding the meaninglessness of the regular season "title."

Cornell Big Red, ECAC Champions 1996 and 1997.

[Will]

But did we give out cheer sheets those years?