(left) North Dakota star T.J. Oshie is an annual fixture on the LetsGoDU Bad Boyz listFrom: Denver Post
by Ton Kensler
The fandom stretches to Denver, where more than 3,600 North Dakota alumni live, according to school officials. Many will try to squeeze inside Brooklyn's restaurant across from the Pepsi Center for a pregame Fighting Sioux rally today. All 137 seats on a charter flight from Grand Forks were sold out within hours.
While the Fighting Sioux play in Denver, their campus home, the $104 million Ralph Engelstad Arena, is hosting the 2008 men's curling world championships.
But the big news for Grand Forks residents is that part of the facility has been transformed into the 2,000-seat Broken Broom Lounge, where everybody can gather today to watch the telecast of the Frozen Four — and on Saturday, as well, if the Fighting Sioux advance to the championship game.
"Sounds like fun," Hakstol said. "(But) there's only one place I'd rather be — that's here."
While the Fighting Sioux play in Denver, their campus home, the $104 million Ralph Engelstad Arena, is hosting the 2008 men's curling world championships.
But the big news for Grand Forks residents is that part of the facility has been transformed into the 2,000-seat Broken Broom Lounge, where everybody can gather today to watch the telecast of the Frozen Four — and on Saturday, as well, if the Fighting Sioux advance to the championship game.
"Sounds like fun," Hakstol said. "(But) there's only one place I'd rather be — that's here."
8 comments:
Brooklyn's huh?
One grenade will get 'em all!
(for humor only - please keep the NSA off my back)
UND will be one and done. I just hope that the snow will not prevent good ol' Jethro from hitching up the wagon and making the trip home to his little sod palace too difficult.
2 words: Go Eagles!
It's not just the 3600 UND alumni that live here in Denver - thousands of other North Dakota refugees that never went to school there that still cheer for the Sioux also escaped to Denver for permanent residents. Add in the travelling sioux fans, and it could be pretty Green in the building...
Sounds as if it's a variant of the "Wal-Mart Wolverine" phenomenon Michiganders exhibit.
3600 North Dakota alums in Denver....thousands of other refugees....traveling Sioux fans....
Anyone have the number for Orkin?
I guess they didn't bother going to the ND or Michigan practices and taking pictures.
They are hicthing up the wagons and gheading back to the prairie after that 6-1 ass whuppin'.
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