Pep Rallys ?

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> I went to university where no one except SOME of the players cared 
> about sports. But one autumn evening we had a pep rally -- someone 
> had posted announcements all over campus, so I went. There was a 
> bonfire and a lot of people standing around it in the dark 
> saying "We ought to be cheering. Does anyone knows any cheers? By 
> the way, what is the name of our team? I think we're the Owls. No, 
> we're the Quakers. No, the Quakers are whom we're playing. No, 
> that's the Owls." 

Sorry to folks who get email!  I hit the send button accidentally.  
I was just saying that this sounds very much like Philly, which 
coincidentally seems to have a plethora of schools with very HP-ish 
mascots.  Temple has the Owls.  Drexel has the Dragons.  There may 
be others, but the only other local school mascot that comes to mind 
right now are the Villanova Wildcats (which could become Gryffiindor 
Lions, if you really wanted them to, I suppose).  My husband's old 
high school, Central, also conveniently has colors of crimson and 
gold, although the mascot was the Lancer (a knight on a charging 
horse).

The only 'important' pep rallies we had in high school was when the 
annual crowning of the homecoming queen and then "Miss (fill in name 
of high school here)" was crowned.  The games (football and 
basketball) were pretty much ignored after that, but then I think 
schools with teams that do really well probably have more 
enthusiastic pep rallies than schools that aren't consistently going 
to championships and that sort of thing.  

--Barb, waving to Holly in Philly

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