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Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:22:22 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
> Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> > B. It's to celebrate the home team returning triumphantly. (So they plan
> > this dance and cancel it if the home team loses? Do they plan on winning only
> > one distant game?)
> Hrmmm... not sure about the coming home part but in my experience
> the games scheduled for homecoming are normally sure-things. You'll
> never see UTK playing Florida on homecoming.
(!)
Okay, this is going to sound dumb, so I'll let you reply after you've picked
youself up from the ground, still convulsing from crippling bouts of
laughter...
So Homecoming, then, is also a college thing?
> > So what is Homecoming? Why is it so important? Is it in any way related to
> > how well the home team scores in the "Big Game"? Does it have anything to do
> > with shuttling the local team out-of-state, ot with lighting that huge
> > mysterious letter on the side of the mountain?
> Dunno - it's sports-related. Doesn't have to make sense.
I hear you. :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
"I've spent the past few years building up an immunity to bullets."
- Angus McGuire
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| (...) Well, there is a homecoming GAME. And usually some sort of parade? I honestly can't confirm this, since I won't be caught dead near campus on a game day, but I know there are all these stupid float things all up and down frat row the next week (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Sure is, but I don'think it is as big as it is in High School Speaking of a sure win situation, this was funny on friday. The team that we were playing on their first punt, punted it for a NEGATIVE 3 yards, Don't tell me that's not funny! (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Yep. The odd thing I think is that my high school didn't do anything for homecoming, other than the homecoming game. There was a game every year, and we actually had a pep rally 1 year... but the profound lack of school spirit made it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Hrmmm... not sure about the coming home part but in my experience the games scheduled for homecoming are normally sure-things. You'll never see UTK playing Florida on homecoming. (...) Hrmmm... tuxes? We never wore tuxes to homecoming. Prom (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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