Dave Wollstadt wrote:
>
> Paula Weston's article on University of Michigan hockey fans in the current
> edition of US College Hockey Online includes a report on the "ever popular
> sieve cheer", which goes: "You're not a goalie, you're a sieve. You're not a
> sieve, you're a funnel. You're not a funnel, you're a vacuum. You're not a
> vacuum, you're a black hole. You Just Suck! You Just Suck! You Just Suck!"
> Although it's not explicitly stated in the article that this cheer and other
> raucus fan activity originated in Ann Arbor, it's strongly implied.
>
> This leaves me with a question. I remember distinctly hearing such a cheer by
> the Cornell University student section in the early 1990s, when Hockey East
> and the ECAC both held their league tournaments on the same weekend at the
> Boston Garden (the event was called "Hockeyfest"). The question, obviously,
> is who copied who? Did Cornell have that cheer (and others) first, and some
> enterprising Wolverine copied them, or vice versa?
>
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