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 [log in to unmask] P.S. I'm not picking on Eric, I'm picking on a certain other ECAC poster.