mostly positive feedback to gameday on an SI message board (run by a wlms grad)

http://www.fannation.com/blogs/post/75336

Quote from: Ephmen1991 on November 14, 2006, 02:41:55 PM
On the playoff discussion, I don't see how Williams could get more motivated than they do for Trinity or Amherst.  (Or any NESCAC teams playing their traiditional rivals.)  Those games have a playoff like intensity anyway.

the attitude while we were at williams was always exactly that - the last two games (little three), and especially amherst, were our playoffs.   the coaches always expressed that they had no interest in moving on, and we tended to feel the same way.  if we were in the playoffs, fine, but it wasn't that important to us.  we didn't even think about it much.   it's tough to end a season (much less a career) better than with two undefeated rivals going to OT vs each other. 

DICEMAN:  great football player, tremendous coach, terrible tattoo.

what's the mood like in amherst this week?  are they gearing up for a big crowd (bigger than usual)?  i'll be making the trip up to catch my first game of the season, always a good time to watch a game there - except the bad guys have been winning there lately...

actually i remember at williams the rugby team wore dark red jerseys and called themselves something else, can't remember exactly what.   i think amherst wore white with yellow and brown or orange, don't remember too clearly, but the purple was definitely absent on both sides.  when one team won they took the other team's jerseys and wore them around without washing them.. 

the yale bowl is one of the best places in the country to watch or play a football game.  it's unfortunate that the bowl is never anywhere close to filled for yale games, except for maybe the harvard game.  back in the 70's & 80's it was used for ct high school championship games and it was truly impressive.  i can only imagine that place sold out for an olde-timey yale game or giants game when they played there for a year or two in the 70's.

back to the nescac, weston field's visiting side grandstand is very cool, and the views of the mountains are almost as good as those at midd.  i never liked the big smokestack though..

Quote from: pleasedontflex on October 31, 2006, 12:06:13 PM

hamilton has a great field...i don't really care about the fans....how many people other than family is gonna make that trip anyway.....

not talking about the fans.  they stuck the visiting team on the home side.  and speaking about bowdoin, they pumped the heat up in the locker room.  that might be fine for a game in november, but not cool for the first game of the year.  any other teams do that to the visitors?

andrus was always a pretty cool field to play on.  i thought midd and wlms had the best in terms of scenery.  hamilton was the worst place to play because they stuck the visitors in the shade on the home side of the field.  had to be a 10 degree difference in temp. 

I think in that category it would go:  Camp Trin-Trin (KKG?), Midd (I remember the Barbie twins from 1999-ish...), then every other nescac school far, far below. 

anybody else wonder why a team with urlacher, vick, lt, and polamalu needs a last second hail mary flee flicker to beat a high school team?  would trin-trin absolutely dominate these guys??

wow - trinity and hamilton in the same bottom 4?  are the wheels coming off the trinitah dynasty??  i doubt it...  7-1, hardly.