Jim,there's no way it was intentional.. they looked so embarassed when they
finally figured it out...
it was rather amusing, and embarassing

Quoting Jim Love <[log in to unmask]>:

> Good morning all -
>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Thom Davis wrote:
> >> You have to admit that the [Cornell fans] "UHN" chant was classic.
> >
> > For those of you who missed this, three UNH fans in the balcony
> above
> > the Cornell section inadvertently (I hope) got their placards
> switched
> > around, and the concentration of Cornell students in the seats below
> > them picked up on this immediately and began chanting "UHN, UHN..."
> And,
> > then when nothing happened to the placards, they began chanting
> "Learn
> > how to spell, Learn how to spell...." I found it hard to believe
> that
> > the three UNH fans with the "UHN" placards could not hear the
> Cornell
> > chants, but a few minutes later they held up their "UHN" signs
> again,
> > and this time the Cornell students really let them have it, which
> re-
> > sulted in the UHN signs finally getting corrected. The game was tied
> > 3-3 at the time, and easily could have gone either way. As
> embarrassing
> > as this incident was for a UNH fan, I found it terribly amusing.
>
>   Although I was sitting at the opposite end of the ice and didn't see
> the signs in question, I have to wonder if they weren't an
> intentionally
> subtle jab at the Maine (not Cornell) fans.  When UNH played in Orono
> earlier in the season, a loud Maine fan held up a homemade sign
> reading
> "UNH sucks" (on the front).  But on the *back*, out of sight from most
> of the Alfond Arena crowd but plainly visible to the large UNH
> contingent
> in the same section, was his FIRST attempt at sign-making = "UHN s",
> with
> the UHN crossed-out in magic marker and replaced with UNH (he
> apparently
> then decided to just start over on the other side).  This incident
> quickly became part of UNH-Maine lore, and was widely discussed (!!)
> on
> USCHO and elsewhere.  Now, I won't pretend to know whether the UNH
> fans
> in question could/would have been that smart (we are a "safety school
> after all :-) to purposefully egg on the Maine fans that way (with
> whom
> we share a much more recent history than Cornell fans), but I'm
> prepared
> to give 'em the benefit of the doubt <grin> ....
>
>   Cheers from the Chesapeake - GO BLUE !!!!  Jim
>