Rex's Rants Volume 1, Edition 7 Monday Jan 27th
BC
HOOPS!
Skip and Rex took in the BC vs Notre Dame men's bball game Saturday afternoon
and it was a thriller, too bad BC lost in OT. The atmosphere at Conte Forum was
what college athletics is all about. The game was a sell out and we experienced
that when we were trying to get a parking spot. The line was long, the spots
were all full and the BC Police were out in full force. We lucked out and got a
decent spot courtesy of one of BC's finest.
During the walk into the Forum from the parking lot we got the first sense of
the excitement to come. The crowd was full of alum and current co-eds, young
children and everyone in between. We went through the turnstiles and could hear
the BC band in the main walk way, it was the first time this season we'd seen
that. The band was getting psyched and fired up the way you see sports teams do,
cheering and yelling! They lined up and the drummers started, the band began
marching and singing the BC fight song. You could hear them through out Conte!
Skip and I were tempted to fall in at the end of the line and participate but
neither of us sing well or play a musical instrument.
We went up to our seats but decided to talk a chance on the "red
seats" behind the basket. My seat was a mess, the result of a dropped pizza
or hot dog smeared with ketchup and mustard, topped of with a splash of coke!
That along with the crowd reinforced our decision to try the red seats hoping we
wouldn't be embarrassed and told to move. We lucked out and made it through the
game and OT in comfort with empty seats between and either side of us. A young
male student sat next Rex for a few and left after a while but later, the female
concession workers sat next to and stood behind us. A few of them knew the game
and players and made some educated statements. Rex was impressed!
They also had some raunchy comments which were quite amusing! Them being around
added to the whole college sports excitement experience.
The crowd was into the game from the opening tap and the Eagle superfans were
out in full force! One Super Fan would go to one of the stairway balconies
facing the student section and would lead the crowd in an E-A-G-L-E-S cheer. He
was very entertaining to say the least! Towards the end of the OT, the Superfans
engaged the Notre Dame fans and were chanting 14-7, 14-7, 14-7, which is the
score of the schools football game earlier in the year. BC won 14-7 by the way!
Notre Dame looked like they were going to live up to their ranking at the start
of the game and blow BC out. They went to the hoop with authority when they
wanted and there outside shots were falling like rain. BC just couldn't stop
them and trailed by only 10 at the half.
A controversial jump ball call close to the end of the second half looked like
the ref's had helped seal the loss but BC fought back and tied it up! Troy Bell,
seems like he has regressed since his sophomore year, had a highlight reel al