Way to go... Bob!   LOL   :-)

Kathy


On Sunday, March 26, 2006, at 02:53  PM, Bob Woodbury wrote:

> I did sports play-by-play for 28 years. I ALWAYS built up the "other" 
> team. Then when you beat them, it sounded like you had really 
> accomplished something.
>
> Eric J. Burton wrote:
>
>> First off I think people are being a little hyper sensitive, and 
>> looking
>> into things too deeply, then inventing things to be there when they 
>> are not.
>> It usually happens when your team gets bounced from the tourney. I 
>> also
>> listened to on the pond and couldn't believe some of the crap that 
>> came out
>> of the Gopher fans mouth as they made excuses for their teams demise. 
>> I
>> heard excuses about the Ice, the officials and the coach as well as 
>> goal
>> tending. How about your team just didn't arise to the task. Its part 
>> of
>> sports. I didn't hear many compliments to how the Holy Cross team out 
>> worked
>> the Gophers.
>>
>> It goes both ways and a lot of this stuff comes back from the Gopher 
>> fan's
>> own arrogance and attitude towards Sioux fans so basically they are 
>> getting
>> back what they sowed and maybe some of these fans should stop looking
>> through their maroon and gold goggles.
>>
>> First off, Sioux fans were lectured all season about how Minnesota 
>> was the
>> pride of the league that they would be playing the Badgers in the
>> Championship game of the Final Five. First change of plans. Sioux and 
>> the
>> Huskies go to the title game of the Final Five. Minnesota goes to the 
>> third
>> place game and gets spanked by their first so called rivals. Second 
>> we have
>> to listen the Media/propaganda machine in the Twin Cities after the 
>> final
>> five talk about the insignificance of the Final Five and the third 
>> place
>> game and how it didn't matter that the Gophers already knew where 
>> they were
>> going. Also its funny to hear the media try to convince us that Kellen
>> Briggs is a really good goalie. So fast forward to this past week, we 
>> were
>> told that UND doesn't want to play Minnesota in the championship 
>> game. We
>> also heard how UMN was going to cruise to the Frozen Four in 
>> Milwaukee. Thud
>> Cinderella from the East coast took out the golden boys from 
>> Minnesota. I
>> guess there won't be Minnesota fans talking about how REA is Marriuci 
>> West.
>> So pardon a few of us as we enjoy the golden boys from Minnesota 
>> getting
>> dropped from the tourney.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now on to the email.
>>
>> Thanks for writing these comments Mark!
>>
>> Another friend had the same experience.  I guess MN is the Sioux's
>> biggest rival (not ours) and they love to put us Gophers in our place.
>> But you are right, the announcers should try to be as professional as
>> the rest of the hockey world.  But they don't.  I know that the Gopher
>> announcers are partisan, but they would be FIRED if they ever said
>> anything derogatory about the other team, it just isn't done.
>>
>>
>>>>>>>>>> No one from Minnesota should complain about our announcers 
>>>>>>>>>> until
>>>>>>>>>>
>> the WCCO boys are put in their place and shown some humility.
>> Wally and Company make The Sioux announcers look objective. I was 
>> listening
>> to the the WCCO boys last weekend talk about how the officiating was 
>> poor
>> and
>> one sided. So it goes both ways.
>>
>> Mark Lewin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Finally, I have to comment on a broadcast I listened to last night.  
>>> Anyone
>>> who knows me knows that I am a longtime fan of RPI hockey. However, 
>>> I truly
>>> enjoy college hockey in general. I haven't missed an ECAC tournament 
>>> in
>>> Albany nor an NCAA event in Albany ever, even though RPI hasn't been 
>>> there
>>> in years.  Yesterday, after watching both northeast semifinal games 
>>> on my
>>> cable network, I decided to catch up on some work on my PC.  While 
>>> sitting
>>> there, I decided to link to the North Dakota link to listen to the
>>> UND-Michigan game. I was struck by the totally unprofessional effort 
>>> on the
>>> part of the UND announcers.  This was not a school radio station and 
>>> these
>>> were not student announcers. These were supposed professionals. I'm 
>>> not
>>> naive enough to believe that local sports announcers should act 
>>> impartial.
>>> These announcers were pro UND and that's fine. Where I thought they 
>>> stepped
>>> over the line was when they started belittling anything that wasn't 
>>> UND.
>>>
>>>
>> What did you expect? I am not sure what you want from Tim and Greg, 
>> they are
>> doing their job, they are paid by
>> clear channel to be the voice of the Sioux hockey team not the 
>> pinnacle of
>> pump up the east coast and the rest of college hockey.
>> These broad cast are intended to be broad cast to people that are 
>> pro-UND we
>> have to listen to the same crap when we watch UND and UMN on Minnesota
>> sports channel or better known as FSN North.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> They made a point of questioning the competance of the eastern 
>>> referees by
>>> belittling eastern referees in general. They went on to promote a UND
>>> freshman as the legitimate WCHA rookie of the year by stating that 
>>> the
>>> actual WCHA rookie of the year wasn't nearly as good as the UND 
>>> candidate.
>>> They stated that the Grand Forks regional was sold out but there 
>>> would
>>> probably be plenty of tickets available for the regional finals the 
>>> next
>>>
>> day
>>
>>> and to just look for the people with the big M on their jerse.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> My wife who is not a hockey expert by any shade of the imagination 
>> said the
>> officiating in the Regional first two games sucked, she was talking 
>> about
>> both games. Point blank the officiating was horrible, sub par, call 
>> it what
>> it was it was an aberration. It was kind of funny watching the Gopher
>> players looking confused as they got put down 5-3 against HC. They 
>> are not
>> used to being called for a lot of penalties because they usually get 
>> the
>> majority of the breaks from the WCHA officials, everyone knows if 
>> blow a
>> call against Minnesota you may lose your job as an official, I know 
>> one AR
>> how basically was pushed out of the league for calling a penatly 
>> against
>> Minnesota and it ended up costing Minnesota the game, this guy has 
>> never
>> basically reffed another game in this league. The East coast 
>> officials call
>> the games much more tight than the western refs and they take the 
>> focus off
>> of the players and on to the officials, people don't come to the game 
>> to
>> watch the officials give us a exhibition on officiating. They come to 
>> watch
>> the players play hockey.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> They went on to refer to Minnesota several times as the Golden boys 
>>> or the
>>>
>> Golden
>>
>>> Goofs and topped things off by stating that Minnesota should be 
>>> ashamed of
>>> embarrassing the rest of the WCHA by losing to an Atlantic Hockey 
>>> team.
>>>
>> I'm
>>
>>> sorry. You can root for your team all you want, but if you have a
>>>
>> microphone
>>
>>> in front of you, you are representing your team and your community 
>>> and you
>>> should make some effort to be dignified and professional.
>>>
>>>
>> Again, Minnesota fans have brought this stuff on your self and your 
>> paying
>> for it. With their Arrogant fans and Pompus attitudes. Also your 
>> players fed
>> into ti too with the Jersey thug by Irman at the REA this past winter.
>>
>> Its all fun until it comes back to bight you in the back. It was 
>> almost like
>> your fans were surprised UND fans would
>> cheer for the HC team. Where I was sitting I had a Gopher fan getting 
>> into
>> it with an older lady because she was cheering for HC.
>> Grow. I was accosted last week for cheering for SCSU against the 
>> Gophers,
>> the guy came up to me and was obviously upset because I was cheering 
>> for the
>> Huskies. Also, he reminded me that he cheer for the Sioux against 
>> Bucky. I
>> mean, where do these people get off.
>>
>>
>>> Tonight, I'll listen to the final.  I'll be listening to the Holy 
>>> Cross
>>> broadcast.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm just getting ornery in my old age!!!
>>>
>>>
>> Hyper sensative and making issues out of nothing.
>>
>> Eric J. Burton
>> (701)-610-9466
>> http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/
>> The Tree of Liberty Must be Refreshed From Time to Time with the 
>> Blood of
>> Patriots and Tyrants.
>>
>> -
>>
>>
>>
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