So your wife nagged Lavins into giving her information regarding his health and availability for future games? Is there anything you two nutjobs won't do to bother the players and coaches? How often do you two stop by their dorm rooms to ask them questions? I guess this it what you mean by having insider information. Holy cow.
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UNH- How Far West Do We Go?
- Thread starter norbert
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Please call 911 as you must be having a stroke. If not, you need to be committed to a mental health facility. I will try and explain this in a simple manner that you might understand.
The players who were not playing, were in section 208. The tickets we were given were in section 208. Most normal humans who see someone might ask how you are feeling. If you want to call that nagging, you have a strange sense of realism.
Does it pain you this much that others might know players and have conversations with them? You are a sad man if you do.
It pains me that wacko fans like you and your wife choose to bother these college players. Just leave them alone. They have no interest at all in meeting zipper heads like you, your wife and Buford. They do not confide in you at all because they see you as a weirdo. It's not their fault that you don't have a life.
"Normal humans", as you put it, do not approach college kids they have no personal relationship with to check on their health. You're about 40 years older than them. It's ok to show up to the yearly fan event or whatever where the players have prepared for your idiocy to approach them. They'll even pose for pictures!!!! Imagine! But otherwise, stay away.
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Oh Corky off the rails again. The math was too much for you to handle and the 40-year gap is laughable. Again, you don't understand the level of relationships that people on this board have with people.
Oh, but I do, Meathead.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but athletes interacting with fans has been going on for decades. Back in the Umile / Friends of UNH Hockey era, Umile and the coaching staff encouraged their players to meet with and talk to the fans at the many postgame Friends gatherings in the Skybox Lounge at the Whitt. The Friends days are long gone, but it was good PR, and I would like to think that Souza and Co. would still allow and encourage this practice with current team members.
Like it or not, there are many instances where fans are well-acquainted with team members. My brother, who is also a season ticket holder, played high school hockey with Alex Gagne’s dad. He had plenty of interactions with Alex when he was a team member, what was wrong with that? My fiancé lived in Goffstown for twenty years and knows the Chauvette family. A few years back there was a young family who sat in front of us who also had season tickets and through a series of off-ice interactions became very friendly with Tyler Kelleher and his family as well. No harm, no foul. But I personally love the story of my nephew, who many years ago attended his first UNH game as a young lad, standing starstruck behind the player’s box during pre-game warmups and was encouraged by the staff to enter the player’s box and say Hi to the players. One of them gave him a hockey puck right from the ice. That’s the kind of PR that goes a long way.
Like it or not, there are many instances where fans are well-acquainted with team members. My brother, who is also a season ticket holder, played high school hockey with Alex Gagne’s dad. He had plenty of interactions with Alex when he was a team member, what was wrong with that? My fiancé lived in Goffstown for twenty years and knows the Chauvette family. A few years back there was a young family who sat in front of us who also had season tickets and through a series of off-ice interactions became very friendly with Tyler Kelleher and his family as well. No harm, no foul. But I personally love the story of my nephew, who many years ago attended his first UNH game as a young lad, standing starstruck behind the player’s box during pre-game warmups and was encouraged by the staff to enter the player’s box and say Hi to the players. One of them gave him a hockey puck right from the ice. That’s the kind of PR that goes a long way.
preexisting relationships are different. Pucks for small children is a completely different scenario.
I’m talking about the fanboy / fangirl zipper heads that pester the players and then write about it online, like some of the morons posting here. Take a look at the viscious things they were written about Conmy. Unattributed crap written by fanboys and fangirls that have no lives of their own.
I promise you the players hate the Norberts and Chuck Murrays of the world that post garbage online without knowing what they’re talking about. Yes, at a season ticket event the players are told by the coaches to be polite, but so what? Ask a player what he thinks about the 30-40 Body Mass Index crowd that posts online passing judgment on their game performances and claim to have inside information.
I can promise you the 100% opposite but since you hide at home behind a keyboard and won't reveal who you are, then you can go along with your 6th grade name calling. The true fans on here Corky know what is going on.
Having viewed this from outside the box, the only conclusion I can come to is Potluck is running interference on this thread. The more other posters try to defend their observations, honor or game/program details, the less time spent on the REAL ISSUE - How far UNH hockey has fallen and the huge amount of work needed to get back toward the top.
The attacks are always personal about the posters and not constructive to the conversation. Toss in a few details here and there, add in a little substance occasionally but mostly interrupting the flow. A subtle tactic to deflect, but the question remains, deflect for Whom?
"Mom, Dad, I think I am pregnant" said the 19 year old flunking out of college, who just burned down the family cabin.
The attacks are always personal about the posters and not constructive to the conversation. Toss in a few details here and there, add in a little substance occasionally but mostly interrupting the flow. A subtle tactic to deflect, but the question remains, deflect for Whom?
"Mom, Dad, I think I am pregnant" said the 19 year old flunking out of college, who just burned down the family cabin.
HockeyRef
Well-known member
Potluck is Scott’s fiancé? I admit that I did not see that one coming.Fiancé? Congratulations Scott!!
Nick Papagiorgio
Holding court
This thread is hilarious.
Nick, it's hilarious and sad at the same time.
Good gawd, how I yearn for the "Big 4 Years" - BC, BU, UNH and Maine jockeying for the top spot in HE. And the BC/UNH/Maine fan battles here. I guess I'm just too damn old now.....
Jellsville USA
Registered User
It is so much easier to be a fair-weather fan. We have had some amazing runs over the years. The Hockey east Semi's were a regular event. The past 10 years have been kinda like the early years rooting for the Patriots (Grogan and company). Then Tom Brady came along, and my kids only knew of the Patriots going to the Superbowl. UNH hockey has the best fans. A bit like Bruins fans. Last night Marchand spoke about the Bruins fans ("they want to win more than we do. When we lose, they go to work the next day pissed!"). That is what being a fan is all about. I believe the kids love the UNH environment and the fans dedication. Win or lose we continue to support. That is the cool thing about getting behind a team and supporting them no matter what. Yes, we will complain about players, coaches, facility upgrades, people like Potstirrer (unable to comprehend the dedication), but at the end of the day, we keep coming back and rooting as hard as we can. I can almost guarantee that on Friday and Saturday night the Whit will be full and loud. I for one can't wait. Go Cats!! (Forever Optimistic!)
Nick Papagiorgio
Holding court
Yes. More sad than hilarious.
Alleged fans that mock Mike Souza's marriage to his college girlfriend and torment Mike Conmy by alleging that his teammates didn't like him are the worst kinds of sports fans. Total scumbags. There's a lot more garbage the players and coaches have had to endure from dirt bags like Meathead, a/k/a Norbert and Buford aka Chuch Murray. Stalking players in public and at games and then writing about it online is not fandom. Publicly humiliating players and coaches by using personal attacks is not fandom. It's derangement.
And let's not even mention the $50K per year knuckleheads that begrudge Mike Souza's salary. He only makes a decent living. All the guy did was sign a contract with UNH to coach hockey. It's not his fault that Meathead, Buford, Elwood and Scott live like peasants.
I just love how the tin eared losers that go after the players and coaches suddenly cry foul when they get knocked by me. The irony is so thick I could stir it.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Agreed. I hope you've noted for the record that I don't for a second buy into the idea that potty is a BWN/CHB/pinhead imposter.
His back-and-forth with norbie the last few days really has revealed what a small, pathetic, out of touch person (s)he is.
No one here would enjoy having a real foil to exchange barbs with than me. But this crap is ... yup, sad.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
SO many straw man arguments there, from the invisible thing itself, you would think potty got him/her/theirself lost in the farmlands of West Effingwoods.
No one begrudges MS7 his salary IF he were actually earning it. Many of us are taking a little time before the rush to judgment (again), but 5-1 losses to Merrimack don't exactly rekindle any faith and hope that it's gonna be any different this time around, sadly.
FWIW I could probably buy and sell both you and MS7, and have change left over, so give that boring schtick a rest, OR man (?) up and buck up.
Jellsville USA
Registered User
You make some valid points about the toxicity that can creep into fandom. I just think we can call out bad behavior without name-calling or personal insults. Let’s raise the bar. Do you have any thoughts on the team at this point? After all this is the UNH Fan forum. You claim to be a fan but do not share much of an opinion about your thoughts on the team. Please share.