The Final Countdown

At 6:30 tonight the UNH men's hockey team takes on Rochester Institute of Technology with the victor heading to the Frozen Four in Detroit. RIT upset Denver last night and UNH upset Cornell to advance to this Elite Eight matchup. Hobey Baker hopeful Bobby Butler scored two goals, one was an absolute snipe and the other a great break-away, and he also added an assist. Butler has carried UNH when they need him most and his 29 goals this season is the most in the country. Paul "I score chicks and goals" Thompson and Mike Sislo also had two goals each as Brian Foster played a solid game in net. Although RIT is a four seed and in their first NCAA Division 1 tournament ever they are a very solid team, especially on the defensive end. Be sure to watch the game (6:30 ESPNU) and we will celebrate in the streets tonight.

WMUR will have a camera crew on campus so be ready for anything. Seriously, when you're a top blogger like me there are some pretty powerful connections to be made. I actually got a call from a producer asking where I was watching the game. That being said, does anyone know if there will be a mass gathering to watch the game other than the bars? I know they played the Super Bowl in the MUB.

So be ready for a great game tonight and I'll see you all in the streets!

PS: If you want Valhalla to open for Sam Adams join this group.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Alcohol and Hockey

I woke up this morning at 8:30 and I had something known as a hangover. Actually, let me rephrase that, I didn't have a hangover. I woke up and I was still drunk. Last night and early into this morning I had quite a few rum and cokes, several more than I had planned. I was in no shape to attend my 10 a.m. class but I had a quiz that I couldn't miss so I made the trek across campus and aced my quiz. I'm ready to do it again this weekend.

So the moral of this story is that Sailor Jerry's Spiced Rum gets the job done.

Also, the UNH men's hockey team has their opening round game tonight against Cornell at 6:30 on ESPNU, channel 54 on campus. I expect everyone on campus to be watching that game and getting hammered. Last year's opening round game was unbelievable and I am interested to see how the team reacts after falling to Vermont in the Hockey East tournament.

I will never get tired of watching this:


Have a good weekend UNH. Party hard, stay smart, stay safe and most importantly:

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Let's Do This

Alright listen up UNH, I currently have two goals.
1) To have as much fun as possible during these last weekends before summer. To get you pumped up here is an epic collection of Beirut dunks.


Please, if you have the technology and the ups send me your own video submissions. I would love that so much. If you do you will be crowned blog reader of the year and possibly win a prize. (Maybe). It is currently a tight race and this could be a chance for a true dark horse to come up big. Just make sure that I can tell it is at UNH, meaning a shirt, logo or any UNH identifiable image. Or you can just say it on camera. I will try my best to try and capture a few by years end, maybe even my own, but no promises.

My second goal is to get UNH's own Valhalla to open for Sam Adams. I have no idea if Adams, or Barstoolpalooza has their own opener, but we're going to try. I have never met Valhalla, but he is the man behind "Drop 'em" and "Party at UNH" which can be heard at almost every campus party or dorm room. So I am asking my readers to go on the event page for the Sam Adams show and request Valhalla to open, I know several already have. You even email "El Prez" from Barstool and request it if you want. UNH students came up big to get Adams in the first place, so why can't we get our own local opener?



UNHers I am counting on you to help make this happen. So remember:

1) get drunk.
2) get a camera and a crappy Beirut table.
3) film your best (or worst) dunk attempt.
4) email me a link or video to win best blog reader of the year.
5) request Valhalla to open.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Students push hard to get Sam Adams

A few weeks back the infamous "El Presidente" of Barstool sports announced that Barstool would be presenting a local college tour for rapper Sam Adams. UNH was one of their top choices, as it should be. Even though I am not a big fan of Sam Adams I know a lot of fellow students have jumped on his bandwagon and he very well could be the next big rapper, so  I immediately sent the link to SCOPE. According to rumors SCOPE originally turned down the request, even though there wasn't going to be a base charge for Adams. The promoters just wanted $20 a ticket. SCOPE didn't think that students would be willing to pay $20, but in just one day over 1,200 students joined the "Bring Sam Adams to UNH" facebook group. This show would also help please those students upset about the MGMT concert.

According to a post today on barstool "UNH is getting close thanks to all the Wildcats who came out of the woodwork demanding that we bring Sam Adams to Durham and doing what the school organizations wouldn’t do." So basically students are stepping up and doing SCOPE's job for them. To make it worse, students at Maine are calling us out for SCOPE dropping the ball. (Maine also had the Roots last week so it isn't like this would be their big concert either.) From what I have been able to gather is sounds like a few greek organizations are actually spearheading the Sam Adams at UNH show, so that could be pretty sweet. I honestly think that this show would be perfect for the Granite State Room, which can hold around 800. I know that is small, but Adams usually only performs for a few hundred and the Whit and the Field House might not be available. Also, the GSR has better sound than the other options.

I am boggled that the entertainment committees didn't show more effort in this event. If there isn't a base charge for the performer that should be a good thing, who cares if student and non-student tickets are the same price? Bottom line, even though I don't care too much for Adams, this would be a great college show and it just proves how ignorant SCOPE can be. I would actually like to see more small concerts like this in the GSR, that way UNH would get more variety in their shows. If Adams doesn't come to UNH it would be all SCOPE's fault, and there is absolutely no denying that.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

EDIT: 3:12 pm: Sam Adams responded to a tweet I sent him saying "ill make it out there for sure" in reference to a UNH show.

EDIT: 6:12 pm: It is official, Ryan O'Connor a brother of Alpha Sigma Phi got the GSR for a Sam Adams show. Nice job Ryan, I guess things can get done with little notice, and he's not even in a student entertainment organization. The show is on May 7th.

Historical figures to drink with

So the other day I was sitting in my history class taking notes. I was in the mode where you just write down everything on the powerpoint slide, but you're not paying attention. I began thinking about different people throughout history who would be fun to get drunk with. Like really drunk and just shoot the shit.

As a history major, and an admirer of beer, I think I am qualified to discuss which historical figures would be fun to drink with. I know this has been done before, but these are my personal opinions.

Think of how fun it would have been to get shit faced with Thomas Jefferson and get him really fired up about starting some revolution and then afterwards he would probably smoke you up with George Washington with some high quality "Indian hemp" as they called it. Or how about Ben Franklin, he loved a good beer... and French whores. Ben Franklin would probably get real belligerent, I mean he (or someone working for him...) tied a key to a kite in a lightening storm, he had to have thought of that when he was drunk.  Franklin also said "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Him and Thomas Paine probably got kicked out of more bars than you could imagine. Abe Lincoln would make another good drinking partner and Teddy Roosevelt probably had a bunch of great stories from his time as the New York City police commissioner in the 1890's. Winston Churchill would definitely be a top 5 pick for me after I discovered his response to "Sir, you're drunk!" was "Madam, you're ugly; But at least I'll be sober in the morning." Good times would be had by all.

But there are other people who I would have liked to get drunk and then watch them get their ass kicked. Hitler is the obvious choice. I would have loved to see Hitler get his ass kicked. And then I would push him off a bridge. Or Joe McCarthy. I would point out some big dudes at the bar and tell him there were communists who hated America. He would try and start shit and get his ass kicked all the way back to Wisconsin. (I'm assuming we wouldn't be drinking in Wisconsin.) Don't get me wrong I hate communism, but McCarthy was a lying douchebag who deserved a good ass-kicking.

As for people who are still living, George W. Bush would be fun too, except he would probably try and start a fight with the table across the room just because he thought they might try and fight us. That could lead to a real messy situation. Bill Clinton would probably be real fun, but he seems like he would be the type of guy would leave with the first chick who flirted with him. Bro's before hoes, Billy! I bet Hillary would show up right when he was about to leave and kick the shit out of him. I can't leave out Obama, he seems like he knows how to have a fun time, especially with Biden around.

Other people (dead or alive) I would like to have a beer or two or 10 with include: Stephan Colbert, Zach Galifianakis, Hunter S Thompson, Johnny Cash, Eugene Hutz, Warren Zevon (pretty much any classic rocker for that matter), and Megan Fox. (That should go without saying...)

Who would you like to get drunk with?

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Drinking Games

Rusty's post from Saturday got me really excited for the final countdown of weekends at UNH before summer break. It has inspired me to share some of my all-time favorite drinking games. For the most part these are all pretty well known games, but true classics are classics for a reason. Because they're awesome and they make getting drunk even more awesome and fun. By the way, I am listening to MGMT's new album on NPR as I write this, so if you're a fan of the band I recommend you check out that last link. So, in no specific order, just the order I think of them, I give you The New Hampshirite's personal favorite drinking games:

• Beirut- That's right. It is a classic, simple and results in a great level of drunkitude. Shoot the ping pong ball into the bowling pin-arranged cups and watch your opponent get sloshed. Just be warned, they call me Ray Allen for a reason. Clutch.
• Beer Pong- often confused with Beirut, beer pong is actually a game played with paddles on a real ping-pong table. In beer pong there is a cup of beer at each of the 4 corners of the table, every point you opponent gets you take a sip and if the ball lands in a cup you must finish it. This game can be seen in Beerfest. 
• Kings- A great card game where the cards are arranged face-down in a circle around a center cup. Each player pulls a card and must do what ever rule is assigned to that card. There are many different rules and ways to play so I won't go into detail for each card. The cup in the middle can be an empty solo cup that is filled with a combination of each players drink and is drank by the person who pulls the 4th king. The center cup can also be a beer can and each card pulled is put under the tab. Whose ever card opens the beer must drink it.
• Apples to Apples- Not necessarily a drinking game but it can easily be turned into one. This is a lot of fun and easy and it doesn't get too difficult as your level of intoxication increases. It does require specific playing cards so that is one downfall of the game.
• Dringa- Take each block from a Jenga set and write a rule on it, many rules can be similar to kings or even more bizarre. My personal favorites include acting out a movie scene or singing a verse from a '90's one hit wonder. Whoever knocks over the tower must finish his or her drink and rebuild it. Difficulty greatly increases after a few drinks.
• Drink the Beer- Drink the beer and you win another beer!
• Movie drinking- pick a favorite movie and enforce a sip whenever certain words are said. Real troopers like "fuck" in The Departed or "man/dude" from The Big Lebowski. (And smoke a J every time the Dude does.)
• Fuck the dealer- This is a game where you guess the next card in the deck. As the game goes on, the dealer gets fucked. High levels of intoxication are reached. Very similar to another favorite, Up the River (some call it down the river).
• Darts- playing darts is awesome, drink casually or make up your own rules.
• Polish horseshoes- An outdoor game where a beer bottle is placed on top of a ski pole (or stick) in the ground. There are two sides, each with a pole/bottle, and the teams take turns trying to knock the bottle off with a frisbee. 
• Horseballs- also called ladderball, is another outdoor game. Kind of hard to explain, but easy to play. (PS I don't recommend looking up videos of "horseballs.")
• Other simple/common games: quarters, spoons, asshole, baseball...

I know there are a bunch more that I like, but I can't think of them all/I need to go to class, so comment below some of your favorite games. (Hmm, kind of ironic I can't remember some drinking games, huh?)

Also it has been brought to my attention that there is a new UNH blog in town... or online... called unschool UNH. It appears to be a liberal activist/sustainable-community-oriented sort of blog and since they link to me I have decided to return the favor.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Back from break

Now that spring break is over things will be picking back up in Durham, and on this blog. I decided to take a break from blogging, although Rusty wrote a terrific piece yesterday about taking advantage of nice weather and doing some outdoor partying. My spring break consisted of college basketball (Really, Kansas? Go underdogs!), riding my bike to the beach, and cursing out Dick Umile. Although it was announced that UNH will be the three seed in the Albany bracket for the NCAA men's hockey tournament. Last year UNH was a three seed when they pulled off a great comeback against North Dakota before taking the eventual champion Boston University down to the final minute.

Well UNHers, that is all I have for now, but the blog's one year anniversary is next week so I have some plans for that. We are down to our final two months before summer so take advantage of your freedom now and have fun. Party on and party hard!

Stay classy, not UMassy.