Friday/Saturday Night Hockey = Heaven
There is something odd about the people up here. All week they complain about the cold and snow. All week they complain about homework and assignments. But come Friday and Saturday nights they will gladly brave -15 degrees F to stand outside an arena to get tickets to the hottest games in all of North Dakota.
If you don't attend the hockey games up here, you are considered an outcast; something must be wrong with you; you must be on your death bed. Well seeing how I don't want to be cast aside, I thought it would be entertaining to attend this so called sport of hockey.
See this old guy named Ralph Engelstad left the university an arena full of cash, literally. So we built this. A monument to the gods! Most impressive right? Much better than the University of Minnesota's arena.
The Gods dictate that the students can not drink in their seats so much chugging of adult beverages occurs in the lobbies. Fifteen mins of breaks occurs twice, so that means that a total of 128 ozs of adult beverages can be consumed in just 25 mins, giving some extra time for the toliet and time to return to the seat. This makes hockey so much better! Or it could have been the 10 min fight that occured resulting in the ejection of 6 players, several large purple spots on the skin, and several long instances of crowds going drunkenly insane. Or it could have been the fact that we kicked ass! Or the fact that we won! Or the very comfortable leather seats! Or all of the above reasons.
Chanting seems to be the God's favourite past time. Although the Gods sat us students down the other day in our respective seats and waged the finger at us. So we students came up some catchy songs and chats now. "All by myself" was a common theme song as players were sent to sit by themselves in the box. Civ, Civ, Civ, Civ seems to be a popular one that the common folks like. You still suck... is popular when the other team scores, which isn't often really. Some drinking song is most popular but I didn't quite get all the words, something along of the lines of we drink because there is nothing else to do in Nodak. They got that one right.
It is Sunday now and the Gods have gone back to doing their thing and the others wait around patiently for next weeks game.
If you don't attend the hockey games up here, you are considered an outcast; something must be wrong with you; you must be on your death bed. Well seeing how I don't want to be cast aside, I thought it would be entertaining to attend this so called sport of hockey.
See this old guy named Ralph Engelstad left the university an arena full of cash, literally. So we built this. A monument to the gods! Most impressive right? Much better than the University of Minnesota's arena.
The Gods dictate that the students can not drink in their seats so much chugging of adult beverages occurs in the lobbies. Fifteen mins of breaks occurs twice, so that means that a total of 128 ozs of adult beverages can be consumed in just 25 mins, giving some extra time for the toliet and time to return to the seat. This makes hockey so much better! Or it could have been the 10 min fight that occured resulting in the ejection of 6 players, several large purple spots on the skin, and several long instances of crowds going drunkenly insane. Or it could have been the fact that we kicked ass! Or the fact that we won! Or the very comfortable leather seats! Or all of the above reasons.
Chanting seems to be the God's favourite past time. Although the Gods sat us students down the other day in our respective seats and waged the finger at us. So we students came up some catchy songs and chats now. "All by myself" was a common theme song as players were sent to sit by themselves in the box. Civ, Civ, Civ, Civ seems to be a popular one that the common folks like. You still suck... is popular when the other team scores, which isn't often really. Some drinking song is most popular but I didn't quite get all the words, something along of the lines of we drink because there is nothing else to do in Nodak. They got that one right.
It is Sunday now and the Gods have gone back to doing their thing and the others wait around patiently for next weeks game.
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