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title: A Room to Cheer About
date: 2015-02-10T05:46:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
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# A Room to Cheer About

*February 10, 2015* — by [Lauren Brown](/author/lauren-brown)



A decade ago, Dennis Cyr drove the youngest of his five daughters to a last soccer game, and his wife asked what he’d do with his suddenly free weekends. What he told her was: Get season tickets to Maryland football games. What Cyr didn’t say, or perhaps know then, was that he would also become a Terp superfan. Cyr, who attended UMD in 1990–91 and owns a business called Grout Medic, has created a shrine to Maryland in his Beltsville, Md., den.

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