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- Drew - 04-02-2002
Many of my family are graduates of Maryland, including my wife, and congrats are in order to the Terps for clinching the title, BUT...the scene in College Park on Route 1 is DISGUSTING! Terrorizing punks, who call themselves students, are destroying property, businesses, police vehicles all in the name of a championship as I type. I pray that the Terps lose their first 20 games next year so the area residents won't have to put up with such crap again.
Drew
- winoweenie - 04-02-2002
Congrats Drew on a wonderful team and as usual the hooligans that are hangers-on taint a wonderful occassion. The same thing happened in Tuscon. Out of the 30 or so idiots arrested only one was enroled in the University of Arizona. WW
- wondersofwine - 04-02-2002
Congrats to Terps and to Duke's Jason Williams as Rupp Player of the Year. As a tv commentator said, last year the crowd was destructive when the Terps lost and this year again when they won--what's the deal? I'm going to College Park this weekend to visit a friend I've known since the 70's when I lived in Prince George's County for three years. She started in the nursing program at Duke but when she decided to change careers she also changed schools and returned home to graduate from the University of Maryland. She's been active in alumni circles and will be very happy with the national championship so I'll take along a couple wines to celebrate with her.
- Thomas - 04-02-2002
Oh my, don't suppose I ever mentioned that I attended U of M at College Park in the late sixties, early seventies. When I got out of the Air Force, where I took advantage of the USAF/U of Maryland relationship on Andrews AF Base, I stayed in the area and studied at College Park.
Never being much of a spectator sports fan (except for boyhood days in Brooklyn with the Dodgers), I can not relate to congratulating someone for a team's performance (someone not on the team), nor can I relate to the idiots who do the damage connected to a team's performance.
One of the hallmarks of a dying culture--historically--is a rise in spectator violence.
[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 04-02-2002).]