2008 Woodie Awards
Hawk Alumni meet at MSG
Brendan Prunty '06
Issue date: 12/9/05 Section: Sports
The two of them showed up still sporting their dress pants. They wore St. Joe's windbreakers with collared shirts underneath and baseball hats with the Hawks logo.
If one didn't know any better, it would look as if they should have been teeing it up at a local golf course the next morning.
They paid upwards of $75 dollars to sit third row, behind the basket at Madison Square Garden, and when they arrived to claim their expensive seats, they found them already occupied by two St. Joe's students.
With seats that expensive, they could have easily called for an usher and had the students thrown out of the section and forced to watch the game from the upper levels.
But instead they gave the students high-fives, yelled, "Let's go Hawks!" and packed into the middle of the student section.
Their names were Mike and Bill, and for forty minutes last night, they were part of Hawk Hill.
One more time.
"How cool is this!" Mike exclaimed, turning to Bill for a high-five.
Bill probably would have returned the gesture if it weren't for the two beers in the hands, so instead he just smiled and nodded as Mike turned to high-five some Hawk fans in front of him.
The two Hawk alumni soaked in every aspect of Tuesday night's win over traditional college basketball powerhouse, Kansas.
When the students cheered, Mike and Bill followed.
When the students booed the referees' calls, Mike and Bill followed.
When the students stomped during Jayhawks free throws, Mike and Bill stomped right alongside them.
And when the final buzzer sounded signaling the end of the game, it was Mike and Bill who initiated the raucous celebration.
They jumped into each others arms like two friends who hadn't seen each other in years once the game was over, and didn't care a lick about their expensive dress pants as the student section piled on top of them in frenzied mosh pit.
"This is unbelievable!" Bill was yelling as he emerged from a pile of bodies of elated St. Joe's students.
If one didn't know any better, it would look as if they should have been teeing it up at a local golf course the next morning.
They paid upwards of $75 dollars to sit third row, behind the basket at Madison Square Garden, and when they arrived to claim their expensive seats, they found them already occupied by two St. Joe's students.
With seats that expensive, they could have easily called for an usher and had the students thrown out of the section and forced to watch the game from the upper levels.
But instead they gave the students high-fives, yelled, "Let's go Hawks!" and packed into the middle of the student section.
Their names were Mike and Bill, and for forty minutes last night, they were part of Hawk Hill.
One more time.
"How cool is this!" Mike exclaimed, turning to Bill for a high-five.
Bill probably would have returned the gesture if it weren't for the two beers in the hands, so instead he just smiled and nodded as Mike turned to high-five some Hawk fans in front of him.
The two Hawk alumni soaked in every aspect of Tuesday night's win over traditional college basketball powerhouse, Kansas.
When the students cheered, Mike and Bill followed.
When the students booed the referees' calls, Mike and Bill followed.
When the students stomped during Jayhawks free throws, Mike and Bill stomped right alongside them.
And when the final buzzer sounded signaling the end of the game, it was Mike and Bill who initiated the raucous celebration.
They jumped into each others arms like two friends who hadn't seen each other in years once the game was over, and didn't care a lick about their expensive dress pants as the student section piled on top of them in frenzied mosh pit.
"This is unbelievable!" Bill was yelling as he emerged from a pile of bodies of elated St. Joe's students.