you went to penn?  is that right?  you have no idea how long i searched for the first ncaa tournament.  the palestra?

anyhow: i missed the college football mob mentality because the average crowd at our football games couldn’t knock over a tetherball pole.  i do sort of despise the premeditated mobs that surround today’s college sports (sort of like “boys gone wild"), but your mob had a more spontaneous, genuine feel to it. 

i guess they just don’t make mobs like they used to.

halfway through the post i forgot my curiosity of where you went. but i’d still like to know. moborific.

dan, you need to send this to the Ohio State University’s task force for riot control. Maybe it will give them some insight on how to deal with the idiots that burn everything after a big OSU win.

U.Penn, 82-86; here’s where the kick happened.  Bryan, your investigative powers are most impressive.  And for a bunch of wharton heads and premeds to get excited enough to destroy property, you know something unusual was happening…

that was indeed a great game.  against harvard.  I remember it well too.  it was definitely one of those moments that can never be repeated.  we lost and then we won. and in doing so tied for the league championship.  wow, that was fun.  the mob was fun too.  crazy, but fun.

Great story.  Now I’m even more amped about the upcoming football season!

two things.

(a) this post reminded me of donna tartt’s _the secret history_, which if you haven’t read you should for mob-mentality primitive-emotion reasons.  very interesting and scary.

(b) that victory was against harvard.  let’s not let things take on undue proportions here; harvard is not exactly pac-10 when it comes to football.  but ok, a victory is a victory.  you take the goalpost and run with it, brainyboy.

;)