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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
It's like a scene out of the 1950's. The atmosphere is terrific!
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I had a very different experience there. It was sort of like a scene out of the 1950s I guess.
My only real experience on Mt. A campus was for a rugby game during homecoming, about 8 years ago (I played for King's College for a couple years).
The opposing team were all great guys, we partied with them afterwards, I'm still friends with a few of them actually (although the ones I'm thinking of, I knew before that game).
The fans were absolutely horrible. I'll never know if it was limited to this one game, or their rugby games, or their non-football games, or whatever, but there were quite a few younger, intoxicated fans at the front of the bleachers yelling racist and homophobic slurs at our players for the entire duration of the game (80 minutes). I don't mean generic things like "You King's f****** are all a bunch of f******" or whatever. I mean anyone on my team who
wasn't white endured 80 minutes of pointed racial slurs
directed solely at them, anyone who was (for whatever reason) assumed to be non-heterosexual got it pretty bad too. No one asked any of these people to leave. No one even asked them to tone it down a little. They did this for the entire duration of the game. And nobody did ANYTHING about it.
Sure you can say they were just passionate fans trying to get in the players' heads. Maybe that's "all" it was. But I've never witnessed anything like that before (or since) in person. We played against SMU, Dal (our biggest rival), STFX, Acadia, UPEI, NSAC, CBU, St. Thomas and I think UNB at one point. Never experienced anything like it at those schools. Got taunted as "Frodo" once at SMU (I'm fairly short). That was it though. The experience at Mt. A left a sour taste that I still can't really shake. I wasn't on the receiving end of any of the worst taunts (my avatar may be a bit misleading here... I'm a "visible minority" only in the most technical sense) but I was deeply ashamed that such behaviour was being openly tolerated in the Maritimes, and coming from students at a reasonably prestigious university no less.
I genuinely hope that was just an exceptionally bad night, and the student body is not usually like that. Or that maybe things have changed in the years since then.