Some quick personal opinions on a number of rhetorical
questions posed by Eric H.
>My question is: Isn't part of being a college hockey FAN, being a partisan
>supporter of one team and tending to *despise* rival teams?
Answer: NO! This is known as being a poor sport. I appreciate
a certain amount of humorous teasing (a subtle skill that requires
some intelligence) but to despise the opponent seems a bit
overboard.
> Granted there
>is some enjoyment from just liking to watch good hockey and to appreciate
>the other teams.
Answer: YES!
> But IMHO, its the rivalries and loyalties to our own schools
>that get us involved in the first place.
Answer: NO! See above.
>Should hockey-l get cluttered up with nasty posts back and forth?
Answer: Definitely not! If you want flames and immature woofing
read a USENET newsgroup like a rec.sport.football.college. At
least with the newsgroups you can avoid the annoying posters by
using kill files. I know one person who belongs in a hockey-L
kill file.
Time for my rhetorical question aimed at a few but by no means
all ECAC posters. Why do people find badmouthing their school's
atheletic rivals such a precious college memory? Why do they
feel compelled to share these memories with uninterested
strangers? Is this an Eastern college thing?
--mark "mr. holiday cheer" grassl
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P.S. I'm not picking on Eric, I'm picking on a certain other ECAC poster.