The Daily Dartmouth says the Big Green has to bounce back this week against Penn after absorbing a shellacking by UNH.
From The D's mini-guide to Big Green athletics: "Fan apathy has long persisted at our beloved undergraduate institution, due mostly to the high school-like atmosphere found at Big Green sporting events."
And: "Football games are fun until about halftime. By the second half it is usually clear that our team will have no chance for victory and escaping some increasingly frigid weather tends to outweigh the prospect of staying at Memorial Field for more than an hour."
I'm sure the folks around the athletic department, who have been working hard to change things, loved that.
Warning: what follows is a little weird. No, a lot weird.
I was talking about the east stands at Memorial Field with a Dartmouth administrator late last week and was told something about the "vomitories." I kind of choked on that one, if you'll pardon the pun.
"Uh, excuse me?" I said. Turns out, vomitory is the proper word for what the rest of us might call portals.
I just hope my 12-year-old doesn't read this. I can see it now, a first-person essay for his English class: "I missed the first touchdown because I was still in the vomitory."
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