From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 17 Feb 2026 01:40:19 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On 16 Feb 2026 22:23:46 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 16 Feb 2026 18:49:25 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:02:45 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Hockey is hideously boring to me, almost as boring as soccer   
   >>>> (football in Europe). Every time it starts to get interesting,   
   >>>> somebody knocks somebody down and everything clogs up again. I would   
   >>>> rather there was more skill and less brawling. (But this comes from   
   >>>> someone who can enjoy a baseball pitcher's duel, which I'm sure is   
   >>>> boring as hell to a European.)   
   >>>   
   >>> One college hockey game, RPI vs. McGill iirc, degenerated into a brawl   
   >>> with the fans going out on the ice to join in. The Kampus Kops also   
   >>> went out to try to break it up. Some genius had the idea to play the   
   >>> national anthem. The Kops came to attention and the brawl went on.   
   >>   
   >> Would you happen to know when this brawl happened? If it's around   
   >> 2011-2013 or so, the captain of the McGill team was my cousin's   
   >> husband.   
   >   
   > c. 1965   It was about that time a couple of us from the Rensselaer   
   > Outing Club stole the McGill Outing Club flag. They were the enemy. They   
   > got it back at the IOCA spring get together at Lake George.   
   >   
   > Different times when you could take a spur of the moment road trip to   
   > Montreal. I can't remember if it was when we went to Expo 67 or if it   
   > was a separate road trip.   
      
   I imagine that Montréal was a lot more welcoming to Americans back then.   
   Since then, it appears that the local population has become increasingly   
   hostile to them not because they are Americans, but because they speak   
   English. I've even read a few professional wrestler biographies where they   
   mentioned that they hated coming here because the people were needlessly   
   rude to people who didn't speak the language. Of course, with the   
   population becoming more "diverse" since the early 2000s, I imagine that   
   it's not as bad as it used to be.   
      
   Back to the topic though, one thing I'd love is for our universities to   
   get the same kind of coverage for our athletics as NCAA sports do. We can   
   catch some university matches for football, but it's not as grandiose as   
   what you guys have.   
      
      
      
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