Superfans, you're on the same team!

As one of about 10 Boston College students riding the B line home from Monday night's championship Beanpot game, I was privileged to overhear the following exchange:

BU kid: Hey guys! You know what's funny? It's not in Boston, AND it's not a college!

BC kid: Hey, you know what's funnier? None of YOU got in!

Insulting banter on crowded public transportation: an essential part of one of the greatest hometown rivalries in college sports. But sitting in the student section at the TD Banknorth Garden Monday night, it was hard to tell if our rivals were Boston University or our fellow BC students.

I understand that college sports tend to bring out the 9 year old in all of us - especially BC-BU games, which involve the absolute powers of good vs. evil and control of the universe. But I don't like arguing with fellow students at sporting events. I realize if I'm sitting behind someone, it's probably because they were there first. I understand the concept of the "student section."

So imagine my surprise when I witnessed the Garden's security removing students from their seats at the championship Beanpot game because those were not the seats on their tickets. In most cases, this scenario would arise when other BC students arrived late and demanded to sit in the seats on their tickets, despite the fact that seating at such events is almost always first-come-first-serve. I myself missed seeing the only goal scored by BC in the first period because I was arguing with two students who had arrived 45 minutes into the game and wanted to sit where I was sitting (where I had settled after the third time I was forced to relocate).

Let's be honest. Student seating in the Garden falls into two categories: high and nosebleed-inducing. None of the many seating disagreements I witnessed or participated in involved the search for a better view. Rather, students who arrived promptly for the game resented being forced by security personnel to leave their seats for students who did not arrive until it was half over.

I go to the Beanpot to cheer for BU football and do my wimpiest terrier impression. I go to the Beanpot to hear BC students make derogatory, yet extremely creative, remarks about BU goaltender John Curry's mother. I go to the Beanpot to watch two of the best teams in college hockey compete for hometown glory. I do not go to the Beanpot to argue with other Superfans.

Let's leave the conflicts to the players, the mascots, and those people who engage in post-game cheer-offs at the North Station T stop. Let's keep in mind that we are BC; if you're fighting in your own student section, it truly "sucks to be you."

Kathryn Dill is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.