Obviously, you have nothing better to do at 3:00 a.m. than to whine
yourself...As they call the Hyslop in Fargo....the place where the Sioux-age
play...Yes, we are Sioux fans...living in Buffalo Country...It is great fun.
We bleed green with the best of them. I paid bucks and shed blood to have a
UND symbol tattooed to my ankle 3 years ago. I could care less WHO or WHAT
Mr. Engelstad brings to hockey games...nor should you. Watch the
game...cheer for the Sioux...or don't go...it really doesn't matter. There
is a waiting list for season hockey tickets. There will be someone to sit
in the seat YOU don't want. I think this arena is fabulous. It has given
us a chance to attend games that weren't an option when there was an arena
that seated so many less. We drive 78 miles one way to cheer 'them'
on...win or lose...they are OUR team and I will fight with the best of them
to prove MY point. There is a long, long line of tail lights going North
and then South during hockey season proving that many Sioux fans live in the
land of the Buffalo. We don't ever want to stoop to 'their' ignorant, rude
and obnoxious behavior. As for basketball in the Ralph, I was told from
people that attended the Kansas vs. ND game...that it was good. I don't
know. Concerts too seem to be questionable from attendees of Tim McGraw. I
thank Ralph Engelstad for his contributions to northern Minnesota(Thief
River Falls)and North Dakota(UND). I know a very touching, kind and
unselfish Ralph Engelstad who when I requested finding 2 tickets for a UND
vs. MN hockey game a few years back to surprise my husband with for his 50th
birthday. He came through...Giving me 2 tickets for a game or whatever I
would have wanted. That's the guy I know and appreciate. Looking forward to
the new seasons...Go Sioux! AAD
----- Original Message -----
From: kiaze22 <kiaze22@...>
To: <siouxhockey@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 3:06 AM
Subject: [siouxhockey] "the ralph"


> While it's oft been said that Mr. Deep Pockets, the one and only, and
> very same-Mr. Ralph Englestad-who, through his considerable monetary
> largess and idealogical philanthropic wherewithals, did conceive and
> build that ostentatious monument to himself-the Palace on the Prairie-
> is a humble and genuine man, I must beg to say that isn't entirely the
> case at all, and for that he should be truly humbled, and no doubt
> will be, when he, if he does, finally makes it to that great big ol'
> hockey arena in the sky. If you consider how,(I shall from now on
> spell with a capital "H" whenever I further refer to 'Him' because
> surely 'He' is a god, or, 'He', at least, must consider 'Himself' to
> be), He usurped UND's control over deciding the Sioux nickname/logo
> controversy and let His true colors shine through on that debate, then
> I believe no further proof is required to adequately engender such
> recriminations as I've charged Mr. Deep Pockets to be beholden with.
> While UND, through various chancellorship, was in the thro's of making
> an honest and unbiased attempt at adjudicating the whole matter, along
> come's Himself, full of self-indignation, and acrimoniously decries
> the whole process, selfishly threatening that if the debate does not
> cease and desist, that He, adlibitum, will,(Waah!,Waah!), take His
> money and run. That UND chose to respond obsequiously, and went along
> with His heavy handed demand, they can hardly be blamed for, because
> the 'Palace" was about 3/4th.s built already, and as I said before, I
> do believe UND's administration tried to solve the matter in an open
> and honest fashion by iniating an enlightened forum seemingly in
> accordance and in
> accepted tradition with an institution of highter learning, and it was
> a decision rightfully theirs to make, before He adulterated the whole
> process. So where does all this leave us? It draws us back to the
> beginning of this treatsie, back to where I stated how I don't feel
> that Mr. Deep Pockets is very much of a genuinely humble man,afterall.
> My next arguement for that very admonishment would be the fact that
> He showed up to a Sioux hockey game last year sporting a retinue of
> Las Vegas showgirls, who were, I hear tell, pretty scantily clad.
> And what was the point of all that parading around the arena that all
> these bimbo's did. Where they there to show all of us little people
> how big and important Ralph is? How Hugh Hefner has got nothing on
> good old Mr. Deep Pockets? Was Mrs. Ralph there too? And what did
> she think of it all, or is she so used to it by now? Was anyone all
> that very impressed? Did you let your imagination's run wild after
> seeing those tramps, and did you all think, "Man, ol' Ralph's gonna
> get lucky tonight"? But I digress, He already showed enough of what
> He thinks He is by His demagogic action on the name issue. What
> really and truly fries my arse though, is this: namely, that if it
> weren't for Mr. Deep Pockets, my favorite Fighting Sioux team probably
> would have won their fourth NCAA national title in 5 years! Yes,
> Ralph, I blame YOU, and all those else who made the Lady Sioux
> Basketball team play their arch enemy, the Bison,at your gaudy Palace,
> for there was no way the Sioux should have lost to them, other than
> having to play it there, at 'The Ralph', and they proved it during the
> playoffs, where the Lady Sioux kicked a--! And I do believe that the
> way they were playing before having to go down to Colorado, that they
> would have totally rolled through the rest of the next tournement, but
> only if they would have been hosting that next tounement, which they
> probably would have, if they hadn't lost that one on the ice. By the
> way, the dump isn't even a good place to watch basketball anyway, and
> espically not Lady Sioux Basketball, so please, whoever decides this
> stuff, don't let my team play there ever again. Everyone likes it
> better at Hyslop where it's so much more intimate, where the fans are
> closer and they can get a feel for the game and it's excitement a
> whole lot better. And don't ever dare to try and parade around any of
> them Las Vegas bimbo's at Hyslop either, because the Lady's who are
> already there RULE anyway! Goodbye.
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