Vermont: Cuba can have them!

Quote of the Week:
"Keith, you do sex, ill only f#ck it up."
-Rob (2nd week in a row, eh)


Freshmen beware! The Cat-a-Frauds are coming to town! Yes, ladies and Hosers, the school that can alienate froshes like Keith Johnson can alienate everyone at the local Kindergarten are visiting our mighty Hoser-Dome. Yours truly has always considered the state of Vermont to be like that friend or little brother that has to try and copy everything you do just so they can feel good about themselves. Unfortunately for them, its pretty darn tough to get such emulation right when you spend 22 hours of your day staring at your hand in awe, and the other 2 hours desperately looking for a bag of chips.

The Cat-a-Frauds have tried everything from playing in a prehistoric and cheap replica of beloved Snively, taking on a makeshift imitation nickname, to even making their borders an almost perfect upside down mirror image of NH. Between Howard Dean, the entire 1999 men's hockey season, and their refusal to stop living in the 60's, its completely understandable why their only redeemable qualities (Killington and David Ball) bolted for the Granite State. The UVM population is mostly comprised of bitter potsmokers and wishful thinking puck bunnies that are all suffering from a severe case of "White Mountain envy".

This tilt between our dazed and confused neighbors to the west was more than your average meeting. ESPNU finally decided that our classic wit and charm was the new "must see TV". But above all else, the great Hoser tradition continued as it was Pajama Day in the Hoser Dome! The sheer greatness of this day is rivaled only by St. Patrick's Day, Christmas, St. Fornataro's Day (every Thursday), Boxing Day, the 1st day of Black Bear season, and my personal favorite, International Kick A UNH Band Member day (March 6th). It should be noted that I had to change into my evening attire at the arena and thus became the 1st Hoser to save seats with his own pants....The UVM puckbunnies in attendance then proceeded to fight over my pants hoping they might jump a few numbers in line.

On to the game, Vermont of course entered the game sporting the 1st ever line of uniforms made entirely of Hemp!! With a national audience watching, once again, the Hosers saved the day once again with another life affirming national anthem performance that made the Beatles seem like a group of 1st round American Idol rejects. Unfortunately for UVM, it was not a good idea to stand so close to heaters with those all hemp jerseys. With Fallon feeling the effects and in complete awe over his catcher glove, Mr. Kapstad ripped one right past the Dazed and Confused sieve. The Cat-a-Frauds did manage to awaken from their stupor enough to tie the game before the period was out though.

2nd period...el yawwnnnnnnn Oh, wait! Is that an actual family of elephants I see on Lake Whittemore? Nevermind.....Just a group of freshmen who were dumb enough to go to UVM. More yawwwwwnnnnnn until the last minute of play where Mr. Radja WENT PAST ONE DEFENSEMAN, THEN HE WENT PAST ANOTHER DEFENSEMAN, THEN HE SENT ONE RIGHT PAST FALLON AND HE TOOK BACK THE LEAD!!!! HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!? Howard Dean!? Take Off eh! This is my blog you goofy presidential failure!

Sorry about that eh. The 3rd period consisted of more classical Suave-ness from Mr. Ciocco and more of Mr. Regan denying the Cat-a-Frauds more often than Canada denies Vermont a chance of seceding from the US. Mr. Radja put one last tally in the empty net to send the Cat-a-Frauds back to Burlington to drown their sorrows in their bongs and Ben and Jerry's. Also of note, after seeing this loss, the town and resort of Killington sped up their efforts to jump to the winning team (Trevor Smith will serve as Mayor to them as well).

Well Ladies and Hosers, we go from dazed and confused to the hopeless and homicidal on Wednesday, The Hosers will be living la vida Lowell once again, until then as always,

Good Day, eh!
Rouge

ps: Paul McCartney called again, he still wants to open for us at our annual benefit concert for the victims of Maggie Joyce at the end of the month.