[OT] Cornell on Berman's Top 10 on Sportscenter

[Beeeej]

[Q]Rich S Wrote:
 No, obviously I did not but I did listen to a few on radio from Brown and in the early 70s, they were, for the most part, not that well-attended.  This I learned not only form hearing Clarkson games there on the  radio but also from friends who attended Brown.[/q]

In other words, you have no idea at all if Chris Berman was "correct" when he referred to having personally attended games with packed crowds.

[q]Satisfied now Beej?[/q]

Quite, thanks.

Beeeej

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:Hey, there's nothing wrong with khakis![/q]Rise up, ye beige, tan, taupe, camel, ecru, linen, eggshell, wheat, putty, and burnished champagne mist. Rise, unite, and be counted!

P.S. To the person who borrowed the Eliot House non-stick steam iron: Please return it to Housekeeping. The Harvard football team has cottony sweat creases behind the knees of their game pants.

[RichS]

Actually I have a pretty good idea.  Guys I know were at Brown the same time as Boomer and went to the games and related stories.

A few years back, Berman spoke of "quaffing" his "favorite beverage" while huddled together in the packed crowds at Meehan.  He's prone to hyperbole as I'm sure you know and this is a good example as he made it sound like ALL their games were sellouts.

I can easily accept Al's comment that the crowds were huge for cornell's visits during that period, given their success.

Heck, even at Clarkson in the early 70s when hockey was more popular than today, Clarkson Arena which was normally packed was not always full, depending on the opponent.

Beej...were you at Brown when Berman was....or at Clarkson when I was?  ::rolleyes::

[ben03]

[Q]RichS Wrote:
Beej...were you at Brown when Berman was....or at Clarkson when I was?   [/q]
there's that whole respect thing again ... purposely misspelling things just b/c you can. btw, you’re missing two “ee’s” this time but you knew that. didn’t you ever learn how to play well with others? were you home schooled? i think maybe you should talk to someone about these issues RichS. You might be a happier person if you did.

[RichS]

Thanks, it's coming back to me now.

My older brother was at IC at the time and sold programs at the games at Schoelkopf.  I remember him telling me about Marinaro, whom I may have seen once or twice on TV in college.

Sullivan was a complete bust in the pros, right?  He was short for a QB if I recall correctly.

But Ed was great in Hill Street Blues...something no Heisman winner can say!

[RichS]

ben03 (that is the way you spell it right?),

It's humorous that you mention respect here since I can't recall you ever showing any to me.  Nor on any Clarkson-related issue.

If it's an issue for Beeeej, I'm sure he can handle my missing the correct number of "e"s in his name.  Sorry, but when I'm posting with limited time as I was then, I don't have time to stop and count those things.  Is it really that important?

ben03, don't engage in pyche assessment.  You don't do it very well, at least not in this case.  FYI, I was public schooled, I played well with others, was extremely coachable, so I was told, as a consumate team player.

That experience has helped me immeasureably as an employee, manager, teacher, and coach.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don't think there are any real issues here.  

Can you play with people who have different rooting interests?

[ben03]

[Q]RichS Wrote:

 ben03 (that is the way you spell it right?),

It's humorous that you mention respect here since I can't recall you ever showing any to me.  Nor on any Clarkson-related issue.

If it's an issue for Beeeej, I'm sure he can handle my missing the correct number of "e"s in his name.  Sorry, but when I'm posting with limited time as I was then, I don't have time to stop and count those things.  Is it really that important?

ben03, don't engage in pyche assessment.  You don't do it very well, at least not in this case.  FYI, I was public schooled, I played well with others, was extremely coachable, so I was told, as a consumate team player.

That experience has helped me immeasureably as an employee, manager, teacher, and coach.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don't think there are any real issues here.  

Can you play with people who have different rooting interests?

[/q]
yes.

[billhoward]

[Q]RichS Wrote: Can you play with people who have different rooting interests?
[/q]Try saying that, verbatim, to an Aussie.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 [Q2]RichS Wrote: Can you play with people who have different rooting interests?
[/Q]
Try saying that, verbatim, to an Aussie.
[/q]

He might smack you in the fanny.

[Beeeej]

[Q]RichS Wrote:
Beej...were you at Brown when Berman was....or at Clarkson when I was?   [/q]

No, Dick, I wasn't.  But then I didn't make an apparently unsupportable claim about the correctness of anything Berman said about Brown or anything you said about Clarkson.

Beeeej

[billhoward]

[Q]Rich S Wrote: yes he is...even when they're not correct, i.e., his reference a few years back to the "packed crowds" at Brown hockey games when he was there.[/q]If CB showed up for a game at Meehan, would that account for it feeling like a packed house?

[Rich S]

My support came from listening to the games Clarkson played at Brown in the early 70s.  And yes, they commented on the crowds each time and none of them were "packed".

Also came from friends of mine who were Brown students at the time ans attended many games there.

Of course, I said the above before but apparently you conveniently chose to ignore it.  I'm not surprised.

I think that's far more "support" than you or most everyone else here had for the statements you made about things that took place at Clarkson, especially with respect to a former coach.

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 [Q2]Rich S Wrote: yes he is...even when they're not correct, i.e., his reference a few years back to the "packed crowds" at Brown hockey games when he was there.[/Q]
If CB showed up for a game at Meehan, would that account for it feeling like a packed house? [/q]

Haha... wow Bill, that was actually pretty darn clever... we'll wear off on you yet


[Q]RichS Wrote:
I think that's far more "support" than you or most everyone else here had for the statements you made about things that took place at Clarkson, especially with respect to a former coach.[/Q]

Please don't take the bait. Thank you.

[Rich S]

Right.  Hopefully we all know the difference between and facts.

[Beeeej]

[Q]Rich S Wrote:
 My support came from listening to the games Clarkson played at Brown in the early 70s.  And yes, they commented on the crowds each time and none of them were "packed".

Also came from friends of mine who were Brown students at the time ans attended many games there.

Of course, I said the above before but apparently you conveniently chose to ignore it.  I'm not surprised.[/q]

I didn't ignore a thing.  You didn't say "Berman might not be correct, from what I know," you said he was incorrect.  You don't know that for a fact.  Good odds?  Maybe.  But I'll tend to take the word of someone who was there for four years over someone who wasn't that there might have been a packed house now and again.

[q]I think that's far more "support" than you or most everyone else here had for the statements you made about things that took place at Clarkson, especially with respect to a former coach. [/q]

Really?  What statements did I make about things that took place at Clarkson, Dicky?  When?  In what medium, and in what context?  Not "most everyone else" - me.

I'll wait patiently over there where the rational people with no chips on their shoulder hang out.

Beeeej