Vol. XXXI, No: 1 September 25 – October 2, 2008 - Vol. XXXI, No: 4
Can-Can, can you cheer for Varsity?
Credits: Photography by Santiago Ortega. Copyright © 2008
Cheerleaders on top The boys lost, but the Blues girls get to shine STEPHANIE BUSATO Campus Sports Bureau So here’s the deal: last Saturday, the Blues football team played another home game at our beautiful Varsity Centre. It’s too bad that we were playing against Queen’s, because they’re pretty good. Actually, they’re very good. The Blues started out amazingly strong, with an opening drive and almost touchdown pass from Stinson to Drew Meerveld. Of course, they called it back because of a bullshit holding penalty, which had me screaming obscenities (as it did the in-crowd commentators). As an athlete, it’s very difficult to recover from a call that penalizes what would have been a touchdown. But you’ve got to roll with the punches. Queen’s did not like the tenacity of the Blues and came back with a touchdown of their own, which of course was not called back. The score was not as horrible as it could have been. 58-14 was the final score, due to Queen’s simply playing a better game than we did. “We came out flat,” said Blues first-year wide receiver Johnson. “We made a lot of mistakes and you just can’t do that against a good team like Queen’s.” Here are my thoughts: I’m so proud of cheering for the Blues this year. They have really proven themselves as a team worthy to be in the OUA.
So what if we get beaten a few times by really amazing teams? We’re still having a better season than last year (or the last 7 seasons), and that’s something to be proud of. I might be a bit harsh at times on the Blues, but it’s the prerogative of a female sports writer to be naggy and brutal By halftime, with the score as 37-7 for Queen’s, it became a reality that the Blues would possibly lose. So my attention was diverted elsewhere. Queen’s is also known for having the reigning national Cheerleading champions. For this reason, I was a little excited to see some of the tricks they had in store…but I saw none. I saw a lot of hugging each other, walking around, and doing absolutely nothing. At the end of each quarter, I saw no tosses, flips, or anything a national championship should merit. However, I did eventually see something very amusing. When a touchdown was scored, the band they brought with them from Queen’s (which, I’ve got to hand it to them, was insanely awesome) would play the same song, and the cheerleaders would... Do a routine? Nope! Do something worthy of applause? Nope! All they did was a slow can-can and that’s about it. At least when York came, they put on an impressive show of cheerleading skills. Continued on page 7...