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Friday, November 14, 2008
Another Non-Durham Post
For those of you who don't know, I do a fair bit of customer service work at my job. This definitely isn't anything that came from my work, but I couldn't help but laugh at these e-mails that I found on a website I frequent. Click on it to see a bigger view. Enjoy!
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Duke vs. Lenoir-Rhyne
Yeah, you read that right. Lenoir-Rhyne, a tiny Division Two school in western North Carolina, played the Duke Blue Devils Men's Basketball team the other night, and Rachel and I got to go. The final score: 95-42.
With Duke currently ranked 5th in the nation in the ESPN/USA Today poll, I know that we're going to win many more games than we lose this year, but we definitely shouldn't get used to fifty-point blowouts. Even though it was a completely dominating performance, it was still really fun to be there.
If you don't already know, Duke supposedly has the craziest basketball fans in the country. Called "Cameron Crazies" (Duke plays in Cameron Indoor Stadium), the undergraduate and graduate students at the games get to sit in the "lower bowl" part of the arena, meaning that we get to sit significantly closer to the action than everybody else.
The Crazies also pretty much chant non-stop for the entire game. It seems like there's a different chant for every possible situation in the game. Here are some examples. When the opposing team has the ball and is moving down the court, the Crazies will usually hum in a monotone voice and jump up and down for the entire time they have the ball. Sometimes they yell "BOING! BOING! BOING!" whenever the opposing team dribbles the ball, and "PASS!" when they pass the ball. The "AIRBALL!" chant supposedly started at Duke, too.
Probably the funniest moment of the game is when a Lenoir-Rhyne player fouled out with about four minutes left. When that happens, the Crazies point at the player as he walks back to the bench and scream as loud as they can. They keep this up until he finally sits down, at which point everybody yells, "SEEYA!" We actually got to do this twice during this game, and the greatest part was after the second player fouled out, he took his time getting back to the bench, like he was doing everything he could to avoid the "SEEYA!" When his own coaches told him to sit down, he went about 4/5 of the way there, and everybody yelled, but he immediately popped back up onto his feet, thereby having the last laugh. It was pretty funny. If a UNC player did that, I'm sure he would get booed, but coming from a Lenoir-Rhyne player somehow made it okay.
I know there's an arm in the edge of this picture, but it lets you see the undergraduates on the left. They're all raising their arms up as the Duke player shoots a three on the left part of the court.
We'll probably post a little bit after all the games we go to, at least recapping the most interesting parts. That's it for now.
With Duke currently ranked 5th in the nation in the ESPN/USA Today poll, I know that we're going to win many more games than we lose this year, but we definitely shouldn't get used to fifty-point blowouts. Even though it was a completely dominating performance, it was still really fun to be there.
If you don't already know, Duke supposedly has the craziest basketball fans in the country. Called "Cameron Crazies" (Duke plays in Cameron Indoor Stadium), the undergraduate and graduate students at the games get to sit in the "lower bowl" part of the arena, meaning that we get to sit significantly closer to the action than everybody else.
The Crazies also pretty much chant non-stop for the entire game. It seems like there's a different chant for every possible situation in the game. Here are some examples. When the opposing team has the ball and is moving down the court, the Crazies will usually hum in a monotone voice and jump up and down for the entire time they have the ball. Sometimes they yell "BOING! BOING! BOING!" whenever the opposing team dribbles the ball, and "PASS!" when they pass the ball. The "AIRBALL!" chant supposedly started at Duke, too.
Probably the funniest moment of the game is when a Lenoir-Rhyne player fouled out with about four minutes left. When that happens, the Crazies point at the player as he walks back to the bench and scream as loud as they can. They keep this up until he finally sits down, at which point everybody yells, "SEEYA!" We actually got to do this twice during this game, and the greatest part was after the second player fouled out, he took his time getting back to the bench, like he was doing everything he could to avoid the "SEEYA!" When his own coaches told him to sit down, he went about 4/5 of the way there, and everybody yelled, but he immediately popped back up onto his feet, thereby having the last laugh. It was pretty funny. If a UNC player did that, I'm sure he would get booed, but coming from a Lenoir-Rhyne player somehow made it okay.
I know there's an arm in the edge of this picture, but it lets you see the undergraduates on the left. They're all raising their arms up as the Duke player shoots a three on the left part of the court.We'll probably post a little bit after all the games we go to, at least recapping the most interesting parts. That's it for now.
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