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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Apr 12, 2009 11:08:40 GMT -5
Only got to watch the overtime due to easter vigil. But that was awesome even if i wish Miami could've won. Very awesome game. Really wish I could've gone. Which i could've if I didn't have to go to mass with family. Oh well.
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Apr 12, 2009 14:42:24 GMT -5
So, my story.
I got awesome tickets - if you're looking down at the Miami goal from behind, I was immediately on the right. I seat-advanced until I was the fourth row from the goal. Lots of Miami fans - and most of those who weren't were vicious Vermont fans who HATED BU (favorite chant tonight - "BC rejects!". And I was rooting unabashedly for the underdog.
So, thirty seconds left. A guy (who came with his son from Tampa Bay and who was really happy because one of the "Who Am I" puzzles was Martin St. Louis) saw me shooting with my camera and told me that, if I wanted to get on the front page of every newspaper in Oxford, all I had to do was go down to the break between sections (I was sitting in seat 1 and had a clear shot) and I would have had a clear picture when they mobbed the goalie.
Didn't happen that way. If you're an underdog, fear the people without a rooting interest - they will move from rooting for you to loving a great game (the North Dakota fans behind me cheered louder than the BU fans when the game was tied).
I did get a few good pictures - but they were all of Miami players' pain. Two images really stood out for me - the goalie, looking inhuman as goalies do in all the equipment, being on his knees for at least ten minutes, just getting consoled by the other goalie and one or two other players, and one shot of half of Miami's players, half on one knee, one or two looking lost, and the rest looking at BU celebrating.
You have to feel for the players. And for the fans. Georgetown's won only one title, but they've won something. Miami's never won anything. To get SO close and have your still-beating heart ripped out - that must have been painful.
And I've got to emphasize it again - they were SO close. And I still think think that BU won this, not Miami lost it. The Terriers did the same thing against Vermont - one person in my section said that they were by far the most-talented team, but that they didn't want to play the entire game. No other team could have scored two goals in the last minute - BU almost could have done it as a bet.
Oh, the other good part? No cursing or any fights or anything like that by anyone. In a brutal, intense game (a fair number of hard hits and one or two near-fights), Miami manned up and did the post-game handshake. And they still saluted the fans, even though they seemed destroyed (Miami fans did the slow-clap thing to salute the team). And their band still played the alma mater at the end. BU's fans were remarkably respectful, too.
One guy that I know calls the NCAA tourney Hockey Christmas. I know why he does it now.
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jgalt
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Post by jgalt on Apr 12, 2009 15:04:10 GMT -5
The awesomeness of that game ALMOST ALMOST ALMOST made up for the Caps making fools of themselves in sunrise last night. If college hockey wanted to become more "mainstream" that game definitely helped.
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