>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"
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>> 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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