Let’s Go Red!

Tonight is the hockey game against Harvard, starting at 5:30. If the importance of this is not obvious, I should perhaps give a little background. Cornell hockey is extremely important; it’s the only sport that you have to pay for tickets for (as a student). Getting season tickets requires waiting in line overnight and is generally cause for tremendous excitement around here.

The Harvard game is particularly important because of a rather large rivalry between the two schools. While Cornell hockey fans are pretty unpleasant towards any visiting team, they’re particularly mean to Harvard. It is tradition (why?) to throw fish onto the ice before the game when we play Harvard. This is not technically allowed, so much effort goes into smuggling said fish into the rink. I’m not really sure of the origin of this practice, but there you have it. Usually someone will be particularly enterprising and throw an octopus or squid or something on, rather than the usual variety of more common seafood.

In any case, I don’t plan on bringing any fish tonight and will instead plan on simply watching other people’s ichthyoidal offerings.