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Try going to a game out at UMass Amherst; they're the worst of the bunch.
Bob Fitta wrote:
> Hey Dan and Maine hockey community,
>
> The actions that night by the students and the youth hockey team
> prompted me to send an email to Joe Bertagna. BU, which HAD been the
> better of the Boston schools, was a real disappointment. NU has also
> gone down a similar road as their band participates in the cheers
> that incorporate the new trendy "suck" cheer. And BC is the worst of
> the bunch! It is truly amazing that the college hockey community in
> Boston at all the schools resorts to the suck cheer and seems to not
> have an original bone.
>
> I think aside from the behavior of the Maine fans at one of the home
> games vs. UNH last year, the greatest thing about Maine fans and the
> student section is their ability to be creative with their cheers.
> Will be interested to see if this is really enforced when MAINE plays
> at BU in NOvember.
>
> Bob Fitta '83
>
> On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Dan Doucette wrote:
>
>> Hopefully, the Agganis staff will enforce this new rule, read link
>> below:
>>
>> I'd rather not see a repeat of last year, where BU students (their
>> actions are not my concern) incited a young hockey team to repeat a
>> mocking of a Maine cheer, where they used the "F-word". I had been
>> tempted to visit that team's adult supervisor to voice my
>> disappointment with their action, but this year I will alert arena
>> staff should it happen again.
>>
>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/12/
>> bu_moves_to_clean_up_foul_language_at_games/
>>
>>
>>
>> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
>
> Bob Fitta
> Director of Advertising
> Harvard Magazine
> 617-496-6631
>
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Lindsay A. Huntoon
Let's Go Maine Black Bears
www.sudsandsports.blogspot.com
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