a noisy game

Here's a lesson in treating what you read on the Web with amused skepticism ... So, the dominant online talkroom for women's volleyball is Volleytalk.  In the thread on today's USC vs Washington match, someone remarks - attendance 2,615!  That's not bad for USC on a Sunday!  Indeed it's not.  Only ... about two thousand of those attendees were munchkins, since there was a local schools event on campus for small people, and they were all marched in - like streams of ants, filling up the seats in t-shirts and USC headbands - to attend the game.  Indeed, they made a lot of noise - a huge amount of noise - something that, I hope, contributed to the discomfort that Washington felt, since we swept them 3-0.  This was a pretty good victory, since they are ranked way over us right now (and some of us still feel the pain of our loss to them in the regional finals in 2013).  But evidently the tuba managed to render even these diminutive screechers sitting behind me quiet for a little while ... (and then - the victory dance - visible on the Jumbatron, the players surrounded by the band ...).