The Bearcat Sports Complex was pulsating with the cheers and jeers of Binghamton University’s clever band of football Hooligans Saturday night.

Their rhymes disparaged the Maine Blackbears, who the Bearcats dispatched 5-0 for a landslide win. As Maine’s goalie assaulted the crowd with a few poorly executed kicks and a soccer ball, the ruffians taunted him with the power of a rabid Bearcat.

Finally, fans (and a team) to be proud of.

But as night turned into day, another band of hooligans was planning something more sinister against a fraternity house on Binghamton’s West Side.

In a macabre version of the scene from ‘The Godfather,’ the carcass of a dead, decomposing deer was left at the curb of the Phi Kappi Psi house early Sunday morning.

This venison vandalism was the peak of a weekend of anti-greek mischief that left many of the greek letters in the fountain on campus and many others still missing.

While a greek life official acknowledged that past pranks have been perpetrated by greeks themselves, this year’s hoaxes were targeted at several groups and were probably not inside jobs.

The putrid mess that was dumped on Phi Psi’s curb was tagged with an unrecognized frat’s letters ‘ a group that denies responsibility for the mess.

We’re not pointing fingers, but we are disgusted. Frat-on-frat hate, framing frats and anti-frat crime is a waste of time and a waste of a doe’s remains. Pipe Dream has never been against tomfoolery (indeed, in Police Watch we marvel at it in its unadulterated state), but these attacks border on vicious.

Displaying greek letters is a form ‘ though, we admit, a diluted form ‘ of the First Amendment’s right to freedom of speech. Let the greeks have their week and their plywood, post-modern declarations of identity. In addition to their themed and well-lubricated soirees, many of them also flex for philanthropic causes.

There are better ways to release pent up aggression than to vandalize greek property. Take a page from the Hooligans’ Facebook group, for example, and channel that belligerence into delicately crafted pro-Bearcat ballads.

Stomp and scream, but leave the signs, and the wildlife, alone.