On Mar 31, 11:03am, Steven Bartley Univ Of Michigan wrote: > > HOWEVER, when CC scored their first and second goals in the second period, > their "fans" went nuts, which turned out to be at least half of the arena. > CC had one section to themselves at the other end of the arena so I could > not hear them very well. My joke at the time was that you could tell the CC > students by how TAN they were. But everyone who was not a UM student/alum/ > whatever was against UM. The UM band/student section was right next to a > MSU contingent who was very vocal during any CC scoring. It's nice to know > that UM is such a well-loved school from non-alums across the country. Actually, there was a contigent of 5 or 6 MSU women who were staying in my hotel. I asked them who they were rooting for and they told me that they were for Michigan all the way. I was surprised by this but, they said, "got to get that trophy back in the CCHA where it belongs...." So not ALL MSU'ers were rooting for CC. Matt Wickey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > But it won't hurt my feelings if I wait a while before I hear another > rendition of "Hail to the Victors". Agreed! If I have to hear that song one more time, I might get sick! :-) I'm still singing it in my sleep. One of the game recap articles in the Cincy paper told how the UM band broke out in "Hail..." right after Morrison's goal. "After all", the paper wrote, "they hadn't played it in about four whole minutes....." - Steve HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.