I have to question the attacks on "obnoxious" fans.  Personally,
I think it helps add character to games as well as rivalries.  For
example, tomorrow Cornell hosts Colagte (if my sched is right) and a
large contingent of Colgate supporters always invades Lynah.  The result
is a constant trading of jeers and remarks and outright insults between
Cornell fans and Colgate fans.  Everyone has a good time though.  As a
Cornell fan, I look forward to Cornell/Colgate for that reason almost as
much as for the quality hockey.
        Last year, I took a basketball roadtrip to watch Cornell at Penn
and Princeton.  The Penn arena (the Palestra) was virtually sold out with
standing, fist-pumping, LOUD Penn fans who proceeded to heckle several
Cornell players and generously remained loud and "rude" throughout the
game.  As I left, my first reaction was "wow, what a bunch of obnoxious
jackasses".  After a few minutes, I discovered my actual thoughts were
more "wow, I wish Cornell basketball fans were like this."
        OK so that wasn't hockey related, but I find that I enjoy games from
the crowd is loud and rowdy, even if they are rooting for the other
team.  It adds a different dimension to the game and as long as you don't
take anything said personally, it shouldn't be particularly disturbing.
 
                                                        Billy Lustgarten
                                                        Cornell '98
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Sallie Sarrel wrote:
 
> On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Richard Hungerford wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Billy Lustgarten wrote:
> > >         At Cornell during the last home weekend, Coach Mike Schafer
> > >... took hold of a microphone and basically took the student section to
> > >stop using obscene chants ...
> >
> The last person I thought I would commend was Coach Schafer. I am the
> only one of 14 not to go to Cornell and I was always proud of the rest of
> the family's alma matter until they yelled,"Hey Clarkson, you suck!" last
> year at ECAC's. Up here in Vermont, I am an age group swim coach and one
> of my swimmers went to a Cornell home game while she was on her
> recruiting trip at Cornell. When she came home, the number 1 reason why
> she wouldn't go to Cornell was because of how rude the fans were. SAhe
> didn't want to go to a school that behaved like that. Congrats to their
> coach who finally tried to discipline.
>
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