Beanpot Street Smarts
Where Terrier town ends and Eagle turf begins
By Alan Wong, with Patrick Kennedy and Maria Matos
Click on the video to find out where to root for the Terriers and where to cheer for the Eagles.
Beanpot tournaments have ended in dogfights, in blowouts, and in sudden death overtime. And lately, they’ve ended in the Terrier hockey team taking home the trophy.
BU begins the quest for its twenty-ninth title on Monday, February 4, when the team takes on its archrival, the BC Eagles, in the first round of the 2008 Beanpot at the TD Banknorth Garden. Last year, the Terriers won their third consecutive Beanpot — in a 2-1 win over BC — their twenty-eighth in fifty-five years of the contest.
Hockey fans at both schools are famous for taking the game as seriously as the players do, and around these parts (Boston, Brighton, Allston), the question of where to watch that game of games is more than academic. Last season, a BC alumnus and a BU alumna ventured into some of the many watering holes that dot the turf between the two Commonwealth Avenue titans to locate the exact spot that divides the loyalties to each team.
Click on the video above to find out where to root for the Terriers and where to cheer for the Eagles.