Best Of

It's Always Sunny (not really my kind of show, but it's been going forever).

She's also in Hacks as a minor character (main character is a UW alum).

It's essentially a story of old timey grit and perseverance during the Great Depression, which is an interesting juxtaposition with today's college experience for students and "student athletes".

The "We Beat Hitler" stuff is mostly just malarkey for bragging rights. But it's somewhat unique in college sports history. Up until 1960 which ever college crew won the Natty in an Olympic year represented the USA. Cal, for example, has 3 Olympic Gold Medals in the 8 Man Heavyweight event to Washington's one. But ours was at the most infamous Olympics of all time with Hitler and Goebbels in the stands watching. UW is the only college "team" which can lay claim to having "Beat Hitler, the Nazis, etc". Owens is the greatest sports story of the 1936 games, obviously, but he was a solo athlete as opposed to an Ohio State University team.

Fun fact: UW's 1958 Crew was also the first American Collegiate team to compete in the Soviet Union. We also won that one.

I’m slightly confused about all the hubbub regarding this crew story.

It was just a boat race. Not the actual war.

Never mind the boat was full of the type of guys Hitler was rather fond of.

If anything you all just proved his point.

Jesse Owens on the other hand shoved it right in his face… in Berlin.