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Subject: Re: Columbia, Fan Attendance and The Inflection Point Author: An Observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 19:13:57 11/19/24 Tue In reply to: An Observer 's message, "Columbia, Fan Attendance and The Inflection Point" on 10:09:28 11/13/24 Wed Current GameTimeCT ranking of the Top 10 Connecticut high school football teams: 1. Windsor 8-0 Last week: Defeated Berlin 47-14. Bottom line: Solid showing against a playoff team. Another one coming up on Saturday. 2. Daniel Hand 9-0 Last week: Defeated Xavier 62-31. Bottom line: That's a lot of points. 3. Darien 8-1 Last week: Defeated Fairfield Warde 49-7. Bottom line: And on Thanksgiving, things get real. 4. New Canaan 8-1 Last week: Defeated Bridgeport Central 42-6. Bottom line: See above. That's the kind of pre-game hype we can all appreciate. And this coming Saturday, for the first time since 1961, "things get real" for Columbia football. The subsequent high water mark for the Lions came in Marcellus Wiley and Rory Wilfork's senior year of 1996. I'll leave it up to GG's prodigious, encyclopedic memory of all things Dartmouth, but I believe the Big Green had already clinched their Ivy title the previous week and would have been outright champions regardless of the score against Princeton. So Columbia's season finale against Brown was not a potential championship-sharing game. For Columbia football this Saturday, "things get real." More real than they have been in six decades. Think about what Jon Poppe and the Lions have achieved this season. For the first time in 63 years, the Lions' season finale could deliver a co-championship. In the immortal words of Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes, "This time it's for real." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Columbia, Fan Attendance and The Inflection Point Author: CUFB82 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:32:18 11/20/24 Wed ....You are forgetting 2017. Near identical scenario. Except that year Yale beat a 4-loss Harvard, while Columbia defeated an IL-winless Brown. Higher bar this Saturday for Lions, but also for Harvard. But make no mistake, it's gonna be "LIT"! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: New Canaan 34; Darien 0 Author: Boyne [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:00:41 11/28/24 Thu A shocker in the pouring rain on Thanksgiving morning. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: New Canaan Wins Third Straight State Class L Championship, Playing Best Under The Bright Lights Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:23:13 12/15/24 Sun For the second year in a row, New Canaan defeats Darien in the Class L title game, winning their third straight championship and seventh in the last eleven seasons. Four of those seven New Canaan championship victories have come over Darien. Darien has won many state titles of their own, in part because some years they are in a different division than New Canaan. But Darien has never raised the championship trophy with a defeated New Canaan team standing on the field. Ever. I discussed earlier how some teams seem to raise their intensity in games against their archrival, but some teams/coaches may find the added pressure to be somewhat disabling. In the Ivies, I think the Harvard-Yale game produces a statistically improbable number of upsets, including the last two Yale wins which produced two consecutive three-team tri-championships. It strikes me that both the Crimson and the Bulldogs get the yips when trying to close out a championship season against their archrival. New Canaan doesn't. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]