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It's The Boat Race today.

SoundAsa£
SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
edited April 2012 in Other Football and Sports
Come on Cambridge!!!!!!!!
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    Light blues!
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,006
    Dark Blues!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    Moody Blues
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,097
    Blue Suede Shoes.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Blue movies
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    A laugh if someone sinks!
  • BensonFC
    BensonFC Posts: 411
    As Jack Dee said: Once again, well done to both Oxford and Cambridge for qualifying. Tremendous achievement by both.
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    I see the BBC can drag the coverage out for a whole 2 hours!
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    I see the BBC can drag the coverage out for a whole 2 hours!
    The BBC gets so little decent sport they really overdo complete non events.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    When I was a kid the boat race was a really big deal. Quite common for people to wear either light or dark blue ribbons and practically everyone was either a Cambridge or Oxford supporter. Looking back now how fricking sad was that. Proves there was not a lot to get exited about back then.
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,337
    Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - "Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew."
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    When I was a kid the boat race was a really big deal. Quite common for people to wear either light or dark blue ribbons and practically everyone was either a Cambridge or Oxford supporter. Looking back now how fricking sad was that. Proves there was not a lot to get exited about back then.
    A 'class' sport that the working man can indentify with!!! ER..not!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Who's qualified for the final this year?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    When I was a kid the boat race was a really big deal. Quite common for people to wear either light or dark blue ribbons and practically everyone was either a Cambridge or Oxford supporter. Looking back now how fricking sad was that. Proves there was not a lot to get exited about back then.
    Exactly what my Mum told me. They were brought up in slums in the East End, but all those poor, working class people pledged allegiance to one or other of those elite seats of learning. Strange looking at it with modern eyes as you say SHG.

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    It's just a great part of our history in this great city , and on the marvelous old river ,
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    All the winning crew put their cox in the water.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    For the tourists. Do not have a problem with it but will not be watching.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,225
    Good day out on the river in putney. Tho it is mobbed... imagine how packed that dukes head will be. Almost as busy as when we played fulham in Jan.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    edited April 2012
    Remember this when I first became aware of it, going right back to the mid 50's....it was a big deal back then and we talked about it for days before and after at school. The Boat Race...The Derby...Wimbledon...The Cup Final....Henley Regatta......The Grand National and The Derby....all great old institutions going way back.
    Happy days and memories of The Boat Race.....everyone had to choose it was quite fun.
    My elder brother and sister went a few times if my memory serves me right.
    Can't see where all this working class /upper class stuff comes from....it was just a lot of innocent fun...never the thought of class crossed our minds, can't honestly see why the issue should be raised today either.
    A bit of daft eccentric British/Englishness unique to us...let's celebrate it and it's rich old tradition....but no....in true British tradition of an entirely different sort let's find reasons to knock it.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Back in the day it was a bit of fun with two crews mostly made up of genuine under-grads who worked hard to get into shape for the race. These days it's become a bit semi-professional with undeniably talented rowers being drafted in as post-grads and getting to study a bit while mostly training full time.
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    I see the BBC can drag the coverage out for a whole 2 hours!
    The BBC gets so little decent sport they really overdo complete non events.
    look on the bright side .. we get a whole 2 hours of the delicious Clare Balding .... or should I have gone to speckmakers ?
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Most
    It's just a great part of our history in this great city , and on the marvelous old river ,
    Most rivers are quite old !
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026

    Can't see where all this working class /upper class stuff comes from....it was just a lot of innocent fun...never the thought of class crossed our minds, can't honestly see why the issue should be raised today either.
    I think that people just thinking of it as innocent fun and not seeing the class stuff just the point. In those days (if not still now) the majority of ordinary people wouldn't have a sniff of getting anywhere near one of those boats, and yet everyone used to watch the boat race. It just seems a bit odd that so many people would have had such an interest in a sport that they didn't have a chance of being involved in. Of course, in some respects there's plenty of other sports like that. Loads people like Formula 1, but most won't get nearer to track racing than an occasional try a go-karting. Loads of people follow the nags, but haven't sat in a saddle since they were 6 years old on a day trip to Margate. But there's something that was deliberately exclusive about the boat race. It's not just that working class people couldn't afford to have a try, let alone take it up; it's the fact that participating was entirely dependent on which university you went to, which was entirely dependent on which school you went to, which was entirely dependent on which class you were born into.

    Then as now, many people take as their entertainment exactly what is handed down to them from above. Whether that someone is Simon Cowell or Lord Grade or Lord Reith. The difference is now, that what is given to us as entertainment either by the BBC or by private companies is usually something that ordinary people can have a go at. In those days it wasn't.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    And now I'm off to watch the race on telly.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    edited April 2012
    It's just a great part of our history in this great city , and on the marvelous old river ,
    Most rivers are quite old !
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Good points and well put Stig....though naturally enough I will see it through the eyes of an innocent kid from 60 years ago.
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,779
    edited April 2012
    Just for you paddling enthusiasts out there, Cambridge have won the toss, does that mean they get an extra rower?

    Oxford 2/5 F
    Cambridge 15/8
  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    Hope they both sink and suffer from river Thames diseases
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Good points and well put Stig....though naturally enough I will see it through the eyes of an innocent kid from 60 years ago.
    And that is probably the best way to see it. Might as well enjoy the fun as sitting there complaining about it.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Hope they both sink and suffer from river Thames diseases
    Why ?

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