Minny signs/cheers

[A-19]

working on a few Minnesota signs, and I thought we could toss some ideas around:

- Golden Showers
- Gopher Your 15th Loss (props to Mike Ack on that one)
- Golden Topher (i love this one)
- Neutral Ice My Ass
- Safety SchoolS
- Michigan Rejects (for OSU)
- The Buck(eye) Stops Here
- OSU Lost to Clarkson (more of a cheer)
- Hirsch is a Nut Job

i wasn't able to think of many for Maine.

apparently hagemo of the us-18 team plays for minny. a few people in section A might find that amusing.

-mike '04

[Josh '99]

If Minnesota is down late in either game, I like the cheer "Pride On Links".

[A-19]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

 If Minnesota is down late in either game, I like the cheer "Pride On Links".[/q]

i dont get it

[Trotsky]

"Pride on Ice," but now they'll be playing golf.

[jy3]

for tOSU:
sing the michigan fight song
"tOSU = buckeyes, ___ gives blackeyes" insert cornell player
"tOSU = nothing but nuts"
"tOSU = nuts without nuts"
"tOSU = the overrated state university"

for minne
"I thought they sold small sodas here?" minne soda
if losing late in a game  "I see you've seen your shadow" or "your puck thinks the goalie is its shadow " or something similar
if losing late in a game "You would think people from here would be better with ice"
if losing late in a game "shouldnt frozen things be your forte?"
if losing late in a game "after 20 years on skates, you still suck"
if losing late in a game "1000 lakes; wish you were on a different one now?"
if losing late in a game "At least Wisconsin has their cheese"
if losing late in a game "feeling small?"

[Bio '04]

For the OSU game, a mention of the show CSI?  (Their goalie's last name is Caruso)

EDIT: Maybe someone could remind OSU about Hornby (who scored the OT goal to give Cornell its first Florida College Classic championship).  Damn I wish I were going!

[Lauren '06]

Firm in my belief that Hirsch is not actually disturbed or unhealthy:

"We want Tyler!" *clap clap clapclapclap*
"Hey (insert scrub/backup goalie/etc), bang your head into the crossbar and maybe you can be the new leading scorer!"

Obviously if it comes out that he really does have a problem, this is off limits.

[billhoward]

Golden Topher is good, very good. Neutral Ice My Ass is good to but to what end - if we're winning it doesn't matter, if we're losing it's sour grapes, and do we know if the rink guardians think more along the lines of not Carlin's Seven but Twenty-One dirty words that get the sign kicked out?

Hirsch may be a nut job but that's not sporting.

For OSU, if we're / when we're safely ahead, remind them they won't be going to their own tournament. Can the Pep Band play Leslie Gore's "It's My Party (Cry If I Want To)"? although that may take some introspection.

It would be good to remind any Big Ten teams of their failures in football or the NCAA basketball tournament.

Isn't Maine the Black Bears? There's got to be some repartee with Big Red Bears and Black Bears. "Winning Bears - Losing Bears." "Winning Bears - SAFETY! [school] Bears"?

The games are all going to be tough from here on in, but Cornell fans should at least be aware of the last time each of the possible opponents have been shut out. Just in case.

Given who the regional opponents are, if we win, a case could be made for the supremacy of private school educations and hockey, if we can ignore the Ag school, which may be tough.

"We lace our own skates - the power of an Ivy education."

After a stupid penalty: "You make Clarkson look smart."

[jkahn]

Most importantly, being that we'll be a small contingent - we need to make sure that the Big Red knows we're there.  We need to be loud and positive, lots of Let's Go Red, sing the Canadian national anthem loudly, all the other traditional cheers.

And who do we root for in the first game?  Ideally, maybe we should wait and root for whoever is losing in the third period, so that that teams fans will be on our side on Sunday (if we get there).

And two years ago in Providence, the Ohio State band played Hey Baby several times.  Since they were in the other game, we just sang along with our lyrics.  What do we do if they play it this year?

[Ack]

Harvard and Colgate played nearly 5 periods of hockey - I'd be fine if the Minnesota/Maine game went that long.  "Our team's waiting...".

[Ack]

Thanks to mastercard, this is a cliche...:

"Gas/food/lodging: $150
All-session pass: $70
Missing a day of ivy league education: $600
Making myself at home in your rink: priceless"

[billhoward]

Remember the stupid acronym signs rank up there with coeds in nice sweaters in getting on TV. So ...

C ornell
S Skaters
T ops in the
V est [<-- this is a line in progress

... except it's a hodgepodge of networks not CSTV. You'd have to find what the originating network is, the one that produces the telecast. Note that Cornell's first letter and Topher's initials are all in CSTV, so we've got something for the next couple years.

By the way, on TV last Saturday the Cornell fans looked nice and clean cut and wholesome, including the woman in the Harvard Sucks shirt and the young family - Mom, Dad, tyke - attired in Cornell red who were on camera about a dozen times. Also the Pep Band. Good free advertising for the wholesome environment we know as Cornell.

They didn't show the Harvard band at all, I don't recall.

[ben03]

IIRC, signs in the NCAA regional sites (worcester and providence) and FF (buffalo) were severely limited in size and content in.
hopefully some of the above will make it into the rink.

[billhoward]

"I love the NCAA - America, God, Sports & Apple Pie" has no size restriction.

[Avash]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

They didn't show the Harvard band at all, I don't recall. [/q]


Now why might that be? ;-)