I've heard Harvard do the"You just suck" chant at a Beanpot game
against BU a couple of years ago. They directed it toward JP McKersie
(or maybe it was Derek Herlofski).
 
Harvard's the only school I've heard using that chant so I alway thought
they came up with it.
 
>>> Dave Wollstadt <[log in to unmask]> 02/21/97 04:26pm >>>
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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