Ramsey Calls DU "Evil Empire Of The North"

(left) Colorado Springs Gazette columnist David Ramsey tried to light a fire under the ass of the Colorado College hockey team today by recalling past DU thrashings of CC

From: Colorado Springs Gazette

by David Ramsey


You could say Colorado College’s Tigers did a nice job of sleepwalking through Saturday’s 6-0 loss to North Dakota, but that only insults sleepwalkers.

This was a disturbing, humiliating surrender by the Tigers on a silent night at World Arena.

And yet …

This defeat, if handled correctly, could serve as the perfect warmup for the University of Denver. Yes, the Evil Empire of the North invades World Arena Friday night, and it will be excessively ugly if the Tigers play with anywhere close to this level of apathy [read rest of article].

9 comments:

msbdu said...

Hey Dave, what about civility in our rhetoric?

Anonymous said...

Wow; I'm actually impressed that he is drawing first blood - in what promises to be a trash-talking-filled week.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that it took one of Denver's WORST performances ever to create "one of CC’s best performances of the 21st century" ??

dggoddard said...

The "Evil Empire" reference is great.

Nothing less than a sweep is acceptable this weekend.

Aluuum said...

This guy should be writing for those trash magazines you see at the super market check out counter.

Anonymous said...

DU needs to kick CC's ass this weekend. Period.

Anonymous said...

Come on it wasn't really trash-talking. While not outright giving DU respect, the potential for us to destroy CC is implied.

achsdu17 said...

I'll gladly take the role as the "Evil Empire to the North".

At least we have a empire to be proud about.

Aluuum said...

Well put asc17! It's our empire against their colony.

DU's 1st BBC said...

I played for DU back in the early 80's. We always had CC students come up for the games and some of their groupies always stuck around after the games. Those bitches was skanky. Let's just say I did some things I'm not proud of...