9,000 great fans

[Cat80]

Re: 9,000 great fans

Maybe the reason why i did not lose my voice is because i have been yelling all season long in the student section and the west side is just not used to yelling on other down then just 3rd.

Not true here, Dusty old boy. The difference Saturday for these OLD vocal chords was the straight out scream starting with UNH's first offensive series. The rest of the west side finally got with the program and I was able to vent freely. You are right, had I done that at the start of most other games this fall, some of those around me would have called security. Much to their credit, they were with my friend and I all game Saturday. I even had to stop checking on standing up, the people behind me were up most of the time. No p---ing match from me. Even the couple behind me who leave during the 3rd quarter stayed all game. Now THAT was an upset.

[1988]

Re: 9,000 great fans

Maybe the reason why i did not lose my voice is because i have been yelling all season long in the student section and the west side is just not used to yelling on other down then just 3rd.

Dustin...You had better watch yourself. I sit on the west side. I had my voice back 100%, from the Maine game, on Friday last week. It's still a mess from last Saturday. I know how Sammy Hagar must have felt back in the day. I have a 9 am weekly conference call every Monday. My peers think I smoke 37 packs of smokes over the weekend because of the way my voice sounds everyweek. Section Q is part of the noise.

[FOTY]

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I still don't have much of a voice.

That makes two of us. My employees are counting on another win so that they don't have to hear me talk for another week!

As for the East - West discussion, the West side has been dominate the past couple of weeks, IMO. They have been standing before most of those above me on the East side. I love seeing that!

[1988]

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In my opinion the only difference between the West Side and the East side is this, most of the west side has their student loans paid off and we drink better beer.

[paMANther]

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In my opinion the only difference between the West Side and the East side is this, most of the west side has their student loans paid off and we drink better beer.

I would disagree on the drink beer better part. I have a few years of hard practice in and would put my skills up against any person. I may fail but i am going to have one he11 of a time trying

[Cat80]

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I would disagree on the drink beer better part. I have a few years of hard practice in and would put my skills up against any person. I may fail but i am going to have one he11 of a time trying

Try again. The quote was: drink better beer, not drink beer better. Which still appears to be a qualitative point rather than quantitative.

[JayJ79]

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Our field is about the same height as 'Nooga. In '05, I stood on the field about 7 feet from where some idiot broke his leg jumping down. And there are benches directly below the students. Injuries would no doubt occur.

no reason to "storm the field" in that manner, IMO.
Wait until the teams shake hands and whatnot at the end, and there is plenty of opportunity to get onto the field in an orderly and safe fashion and celebrate the win with the players. Just like it always is in the Dome.

[TH1974]

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no reason to "storm the field"

Fixed......

[1988]

Re: 9,000 great fans

Fixed......

Finally!! Your personality has changed.

[mwatje]

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Alright, I don't know about all the student fan bashing on this thread. I think there is a loyal base of student fans...but I know there was much better attendance last year. HOWEVER, I would like to point out to those who are not students that LAST year there was INCREDIBLE marketing towards students for every single football game. They did a great job of creating urgency for tickets, getting people excited, and filling the seats. They used a very well organized (and overwhelming) email campaign to do so. Unfortunately, that has not occurred this year. I would venture to say that most of the student section is comprised of upper classmen...UNI did a poor job of wrangling the freshman this year.

Aside from that...I would love to see a sell out crowd--- but we did a great job keeping the noise up nearly every single play without the other 7,000 fans.

[clenz]

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For some reason mwatje reminds me of a guy I had class with at Wartburg once.

[jegbomb52]

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IF IF IF IF IF;

For some reason (don't think it will be) in hand "easiliy" by 14 or so, don't jump the rail. As a student section, storm the stairs at the south end of the dome, if everyone goes down there with 2 minutes left in the game or something, you get get a lot of people out there. If we win a semi-final game in the dome to send out team to Chattanooga, I will start a student bash thread if we DON'T storm the field.

One of the neatest memories I have is watching the student section in Montana literally flood the field when the game was over. It was like watching 7,000 people just flow down on the field. No reservations, they just crashed the party.

Of course if we are up 14 at the end of the game, there won't be any students left anyway. Up to you West Side!

[Purple Reign]

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East side:"ONE TEAM!!!"

West side:"ONE GOAL!!!"

I'd like to hear that again! Stay tuned.

PR

[dan_beeding]

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West side was great Saturday. I commented to my girlfriend on more than one occasion that they were up on their feet when they normally wouldn't be. Hope we can carry that into this Saturday for the Spidermen.

[mwatje]

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For some reason mwatje reminds me of a guy I had class with at Wartburg once.

That's because I AM!!! HAHAHAHA how's it going chad?