LOL! :)
Dad used to say, “I went to The Fights and a Hockey Game broke out!”
Lord, but they hated each other. When the Gophers came to town the fans would fling dead gophers onto the ice...and when the Badgers came...yes, I actually saw a dead badger chucked out over the glass, pre-game.
And...AND...one game kicked off, so to speak, when the two teams started crap-talking at center ice, during warm-ups, BEFORE the puck dropped, and suddenly they went at it.
I mean, big time, gloves flew, headgear flew, and battle broke out. There were something like 140 penalty minutes PRIOR to the game...took coaches, second-liners, even campus security and cops to separate the teams.
Your daddy might have got a kick out of it all. Let me tell you, the fans sure did!