"See Ya" At U. of Michigan Hockey This Year

See ya, chump dick wuss douchebag asshole prick cheater bitch whore cocksucker!

Er ... pardon me. I thought I was at a hockey game.

I fondly recall attending hockey games in high school and college. Namely high school. What separated hockey from other sports was the absolute malice spewed from the fans toward the players. Personally I blame the Hanson brothers. But the fan mentality perfectly matched the physicality on the other side of the Plexiglas. The athletes would run into each other, but unlike football, the grace of sliding across a sheet of ice abruptly transformed into a brutal (and entertaining!) clock-cleaning.

While I do not recall any particular chants, most of the jeers were so organic. And at the end of the day, everyone had a good time. Well, except for the losing team.

Had I gone to the University of Michigan, a certain chant would have been forever etched into the back of my skull. And it's the first sentence of this article.

As the offending player skates to the box, the fans prelude with an "Ahhhhhhhhhh" and commence with the semi-automatic spray of unadulterated yet systematic swearing that could certainly make George Carlin impressed.

Now I just heard of this chant the first time in Jim Carty's Ann Arbor News column last night. To sum it up, everyone from the University of Michigan athletic director to Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly is all for finding ways to wipe out this vulgar chant, which is bellowed any time an opposing player goes to the penalty box. Potential punishments include ejection from the stadium, suspending students from attending a game, dispersing the student section entirely or — and I think this is all they've come up with right now — having a security guy come up to the students and say, "Knock it off you guys!"

Indeed, it's a crude chant. One in which I wouldn't participate nor want my kids to hear. And that, my friends, is why it's brilliant. The "See Ya" chant is personified hockey mentality. Although in Canty's column, he quotes Martin as saying that the chant has been heard at women's volleyball games. Now that's just uncalled for. Tee hee.

Article Author: Matthew T. Sussman

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