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Lindsay Huntoon <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:38:24 -0400
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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
>

-- 
Lindsay A. Huntoon
Let's Go Maine Black Bears
www.sudsandsports.blogspot.com

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