Beanpot...GO HUSKIES!

So this past Monday and the Monday before was Northeastern University's Beanpot. The Beanpot is when Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College and Harvard all play each other in a hockey tournement. It's a pretty big deal here, and shockingly, I have never gone before. So as it's my senior year I decided it was necessary to go this year.

The day tickets go on sale people line up for hours ahead of time, and they sell out crazy fast. So my 2 girlsfriends and I got in line, waited in the freezing cold, and paid almost $40 for the tickets. (Let me tell you, when you're a broke college student $40 goes a long way.)

The Beanpot takes place at the Garden, which is Boston's big arena that the Celtics and the Bruins play at. So the tickets have seat numbers, not just general admission. Now at Northeastern games the tickets are just general admission, so it's first come, first served. This discrepency is what lead to the riciculous situation the other night.

So it's the first night of the Beanpot and Northeastern is playing BU at 8:00 PM. My two friends I was going with, Megan and Dee, both work on Monday's until 5:00 PM.  So we all met up at home, ate some dinner, then jumped on the T to get to the game.  By the time we got there is was about 8:30 PM.  While we were slightly late, between clearing the ice, the national anthem, and other hockey-related things, nothing had really happened yet.  The game had barely started.

So we make our way over to our assigned seats, as per the ticket specified.  Once we got there we had two of our seats open, but someone was in the third.  Now it was pretty clear that the people in this section all either knew each other, were friends, came together, something!  Also there were three empty seats, that were originally theirs, in the row behind us.  We didn't realize this right away though.  This is what should have transpired:

Us:  Hey I think you guys might be in our seats.

Other people:  Oh sorry!  We all came together and wanted to sit together.  We have three empty seats right behind us.  Do you mind sitting there so we can stay together?

Us:  Sure, no problem.

This is what actually happened:

Us:  Hey I think you guys might be in our seats.

Other people:  Well the game already started!  

Us:  Uh, yea we had work....

Other people:  And you were late!  

Us:  Right, we were at our aforementioned jobs...

Other people:  AND THIS IS JUST HOW THE STUDENT SECTION WORKS!!!

Us:  Are you being serious?

One of their friends who wasn't insane:  We have three empty seats right behind us.  Do you mind sitting there so we can stay together?

Us:  Sure, but that was a weird over-reaction.  *gives them crazy looks*

They then proceeded to talk about us for the rest of the game.  With us directly behind them.  Easily in earshot.

It was actually so ridiculous that we just ended up laughing about it.  But come on!  You expect to get into fights at hockey games.  You DON'T expect to get into fights with people cheering for the same team as you.

So remember, everyone is ridiculous, including crazy college hockey fans.