One of the things I always liked about the week leading up to the Lehigh v. Lafayette game was the campus-wide atmosphere of school spirit. Here we see a "flash-mob" type spirit disply. A contingent of Lehigh's band...The Marching 97....barges into a classroom and starts a rousing,brassy,blaring rendition of the Lehigh fight song. From the stuff on the chalkboard it seems this is an engineering class or some other highly technical stuff way above the sportsman's pay grade...so the effort may have been lost on the two Asian kids in the front row who plan to spend game day accelerating a particle or some shit.
Nevertheless, the tone on campus was and is always ramped up. There are still bonfires and attempts to deface the opposing school statues and sunrise cocktails on the morning of the game. The fraternities rent buses to hit the away games and I have fond (but episodic) memories of washing down stale donuts with 101 proof Wild Turkey at 8:30 A.M in the back of the bus with the boys on the way over to Easton.
At Ohio State it was last night's pizza and Jack Daniels, go Engineers!
ReplyDeleteStuff like that is a lot of fun. It's like everybody signs a social contract to accept irresponsible behavior and irrational exuberance.
ReplyDeleteThe world needs frivoloty.