So this is what happens when your hockey team gets good...  Well, at
least I survived.  It took 3 hours in line, but I now have vouchers
which entitle me to pick up 8 tickets for each of the Union-RPI
playoff games this weekend.  I have never seen anything like that
here.  1000 tickets went on sale at Achilles this morning at 9.  I got
there at 8:45, thinking that I might have to wait for a few minutes,
but no big deal.  The lobby was packed.  The line took three hours,
and it was still almost as long when I left at 11:45 as when I
arrived..  At one point it was going down the stairs out in front of
the rink.  So much for my 11:00 class up at RPI...  Union has just one
ticket window, so even working as fast as they could, Kathee Natole
and her staff were just overwhelmed.  It definitely looks like Union
College has caught playoff fever!  Students, faculty, administrators,
alumni - all standing in line for 3 hours waiting for tickets to see
Union's first ECAC playoff games.  It was great to see that kind of
support, but I just wish the line would have moved a bit faster..
 
Jim
 
P.S.  If you see someone wearing a Union Hockey hat around RPI's
campus this week, that's me.
 
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