>hear the "Sieve...Funnel...Vacuum...Black Hole...etc." cheer anymore, and I
 
        Regarding this cheer-  does anyone out there know where it originated?
I know it has a 'cute' ring to it, but I had never heard it before moving east
five and a half years ago, and it's just never really made sense to me.  Back
in the mid-west, the absolute worst thing one could call a goalie is a funnel
(which not only lets all pucks through like a sieve, but also re-directs those
which would have missed), and vacuum was on occasion used as a complimentary
term for a tender who was, in essence, sucking in all available pucks, to
 himself,
not the net...
 
        Any historians out there?
 
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Joel Graber                              Michigan Tech  '87     Let's go Tech!!!
                                         Cornell        '93     Let's go Red!!!
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