It was about the beginning of November that I noticed it. I had innocently gotten out of bed at 12:30 p.m., I didn’t really care for my 10 a.m. class, and I realized that I only had a half an hour before ESPN Classic was going to replay Game Six of the 1986 World Series. You may find it odd that I, a devoted member of Red Sox Nation, would make it a priority to watch the most tragic moment in Boston history since the day Tony Conigliaro decided to crowd the plate. But my most fervent desire is that one day I am going to be sitting there watching Game Six and all of a sudden the space-time continuum will have been thrown off somehow and Buckner makes the play at first base to end the game and thus reversing the misery that has been the last 15 years of my life.
I knew that I couldn’t watch Game Six on an empty stomach so I decided to mosey on over to Barone to grab some pre-game food. For some strange reason, and to this day I don’t know why, I entered Barone through the lower level where the mailboxes are. As I made it a few feet past the Information Booth, (or Information Folding-Table, as it was at the time) I saw it.
“It” being the biggest mistake on this campus since Jermaine Clark called a Stags’ victory in The MAAC tourney last year. It being that stupid giant stuffed Stag head that is hanging on the wall in the lowest level of Barone. I mean really, what genius thought to themselves, “Hey, a giant deer head – CLASSY!” Apparently, the giant Stag head was the school’s second choice. But unfortunately they couldn’t find a large enough copy of “Dogs Playing Poker” to cover the space.
If Fairfield University wants to establish itself as a prominent national university, and all other indicators point that this is the goal, then we have to stop hanging things on the walls of our buildings that look like they belong in a VFW Hall.
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