This program has ruined me as a fan
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I'll be honest...the only reason I'm still a fan is because I have you assholes to share my misery with.
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I mean...PostGameOrangeSlices said:Dennis_DeYoung said:I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
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Another 1988 story: I remember being at this pizza place out near the Greenwood Fred Meyer for some kids' damn birthday party, or it might have been the celebration of the soccer team's championship (75k) with a 4-2-4 record in November of 1988. This annoying kid had this Husky shirt on and it said, "Best in the West" and it had all the P 10 mascot animals. I felt like saying, "Why the hell are you wearing that? They just lost to the loser Cougits, almost lost to horrible Kal, and they were 3-5 and probably sixth place or something. That shirt looks ridiculous." So even at a young age, I knew it was unacceptable to be that mediocre.
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That was, and I don't say this lightly, a very cool story, bro.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:Another 1988 story: I remember being at this pizza place out near the Greenwood Fred Meyer for some kids' damn birthday party, or it might have been the celebration of the soccer team's championship (75k) with a 4-2-4 record in November of 1988. This annoying kid had this Husky shirt on and it said, "Best in the West" and it had all the P 10 mascot animals. I felt like saying, "Why the hell are you wearing that? They just lost to the loser Cougits, almost lost to horrible Kal, and they were 3-5 and probably sixth place or something. That shirt looks ridiculous." So even at a young age, I knew it was unacceptable to be that mediocre.
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Nailed it. POTD.Dennis_DeYoung said:I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
The identity thing IS what made Washington great. But, it will never come back. It was a time and a place. We aren't going back to hard nosed grind it out football with lunch pail logger liberals anytime soon. Probably never. I am okay with that.
But FFS, can we start a NEW identity that involves winning? You see, the identity takes care of itself when you are a winner. Oregon has an identity under Chip...glitz, glamour, loud uniforms and we will run you over up tempo style. Total fag shit compared to Don James football. I would take it in a heartbeat if it meant winning. I don't GAF how we win, and what we are know for. If that fuckass Leach could win here I'd think "well, Air Raid is gay, but they just won a fucking Rose Bowl so who gives a fuck!"
I totally get your point, and it is the same reason I have so many memories of Washington. Just crushing people. Other teams were literally afraid to come here and play. We were Miami on the left coast. Bad ass! But, I don't give a fuck if we run spread, up tempo, all vertical attack....whatever...just fucking win. But we won't.
Alabama got shitty for several years. Texas has fallen off badly. Look at USC after the Kiffen/Sark implosion. Even Miami...enough said on that. It is very hard to keep a top tier football program for decade after decade. Only a handful of schools have been able to do it. Oklahomo, Bama, Ohio State, USC....we are still the right hire away from being great...but we won't do it. Those schools mentioned above (sans Miami) have a serious institutional will to win. Whatever it takes even if we have to fuck it up for 10 years we WILL win big again. Anyone who thinks UC or the AD at UW has a deep in their balls will to win needs to get fucked. They don't. We lucked into DJ, and Seattle was a very different place in the late 70's/80's then it is now.
UW football is over. Finished. Get @RaceBannon to write the obituary and let's bury it and all get all coked up and say who gives a shit. -
This. Without this hive of scum and villainy to commiserate and share hookers and blow stories with I would have moved on years ago. I haven't even lived on the West Coast or been to a game in years. I still care, but mostly as a product of talking it all the time with you degenerates. If I didn't come here, it would wane and I would just fish or fuck every Saturday. Or both.CheersWestDawg said:I'll be honest...the only reason I'm still a fan is because I have you assholes to share my misery with.
The lack of caring at the top at UW has worn me down. We will never be good again. We might have a good year here or there, but a perennial contender is not in the cards. -
I didn't really mention this, and ancient people like @RaceBannon could speak to it as well, but it all goes back to Owens (and possibly further) having tough guys. Then DJ kept that theme going as well.Swaye said:
Nailed it. POTD.Dennis_DeYoung said:I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
The identity thing IS what made Washington great. But, it will never come back. It was a time and a place. We aren't going back to hard nosed grind it out football with lunch pail logger liberals anytime soon. Probably never. I am okay with that.
But FFS, can we start a NEW identity that involves winning? You see, the identity takes care of itself when you are a winner. Oregon has an identity under Chip...glitz, glamour, loud uniforms and we will run you over up tempo style. Total fag shit compared to Don James football. I would take it in a heartbeat if it meant winning. I don't GAF how we win, and what we are know for. If that fuckass Leach could win here I'd think "well, Air Raid is gay, but they just won a fucking Rose Bowl so who gives a fuck!"
I totally get your point, and it is the same reason I have so many memories of Washington. Just crushing people. Other teams were literally afraid to come here and play. We were Miami on the left coast. Bad ass! But, I don't give a fuck if we run spread, up tempo, all vertical attack....whatever...just fucking win. But we won't.
Alabama got shitty for several years. Texas has fallen off badly. Look at USC after the Kiffen/Sark implosion. Even Miami...enough said on that. It is very hard to keep a top tier football program for decade after decade. Only a handful of schools have been able to do it. Oklahomo, Bama, Ohio State, USC....we are still the right hire away from being great...but we won't do it. Those schools mentioned above (sans Miami) have a serious institutional will to win. Whatever it takes even if we have to fuck it up for 10 years we WILL win big again. Anyone who thinks UC or the AD at UW has a deep in their balls will to win needs to get fucked. They don't. We lucked into DJ, and Seattle was a very different place in the late 70's/80's then it is now.
UW football is over. Finished. Get @RaceBannon to write the obituary and let's bury it and all get all coked up and say who gives a shit.
So, we were 'tough guys' for the better part of 40 years. That was the identity.
Now we are fags in faggy uniforms riding whatever trend there is on it's most surface level.
Sure, we used to follow trends like anyone else, but underneath whatever that was, we had tough fuckers. Now we are just whatever and do whatever.
What is Washington football now? It's the team that plays at Washington. Cort fucking Dennison is a Washington football player. He gets to say he was the same as David Rill does.
However, only one was a WASHINGTON football player. -
For your personal well being, it might be time to move on to the fishing and fucking.Swaye said:
This. Without this hive of scum and villainy to commiserate and share hookers and blow stories with I would have moved on years ago. I haven't even lived on the West Coast or been to a game in years. I still care, but mostly as a product of talking it all the time with you degenerates. If I didn't come here, it would wane and I would just fish or fuck every Saturday. Or both.CheersWestDawg said:I'll be honest...the only reason I'm still a fan is because I have you assholes to share my misery with.
The lack of caring at the top at UW has worn me down. We will never be good again. We might have a good year here or there, but a perennial contender is not in the cards. -
Since it seems to be fucking story sharing time..
I was 1 when UW won the National Championship. My pops played for Owens and was there when James took over.
I took my old man to the Cal game this year. He doesn't like to go anymore because UW has fucking sucked for so long and he can't get through a game without storming out of the stadium, shouting like a mad man.
Toward the end of the cal game, we were fucking high, laughing because Cal was too fucking shitty to put UW away. We knew UW was going to lose though, because we had seen it before.
At the end, he remarked that there was a time when UW fans would be pissed if UW won by single digits at home.
I could only imagine. I get pissed, as a fan, at losing and mediocrity, which has become the ugly ugly norm for UW.
My father used to get pissed at UW being really good but not great. I just want to have the fucking chance to feel that way with this program.
I was a student at UW during 0-12. Last night felt similar. Like the Cal game. Like the Boise game. Like the Arizona game. Like the Stanford game. We have seen it before, again and again, and we have no reason at this point, to expect anything but shit. Fuck the excuses. This team has lost over and over, regardless of the player circumstances (ie, quality of player, youth, etc).
As the old man would tell me before I played in a basketball or football game. You either win or you're a piece of shit.
This program is a piece of shit.
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I fucking LOVE story time on this bored.
I would like to get shitfaced with one of Maka's Dads. -
He'd outdrink all you fuckers.Swaye said:I fucking LOVE story time on this bored.
I would like to get shitfaced with one of Maka's Dads.
The other one has the AIDS. -
Until Woodward is fired, this program is fucked. Even then, this program is probably fucked.DuckHHunterisafag said:Until Pussyman admits the Smith hiring and subsequent adherence after last season was a colossal failure, I hate him. No Beaver should EVER coach on the UW sidelines EVER!!!
Either way it won't be interesting. -
Swaye said:
Nailed it. POTD.Dennis_DeYoung said:I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
The identity thing IS what made Washington great. But, it will never come back. It was a time and a place. We aren't going back to hard nosed grind it out football with lunch pail logger liberals anytime soon. Probably never. I am okay with that.
But FFS, can we start a NEW identity that involves winning? You see, the identity takes care of itself when you are a winner. Oregon has an identity under Chip...glitz, glamour, loud uniforms and we will run you over up tempo style. Total fag shit compared to Don James football. I would take it in a heartbeat if it meant winning. I don't GAF how we win, and what we are know for. If that fuckass Leach could win here I'd think "well, Air Raid is gay, but they just won a fucking Rose Bowl so who gives a fuck!"
I totally get your point, and it is the same reason I have so many memories of Washington. Just crushing people. Other teams were literally afraid to come here and play. We were Miami on the left coast. Bad ass! But, I don't give a fuck if we run spread, up tempo, all vertical attack....whatever...just fucking win. But we won't.
Alabama got shitty for several years. Texas has fallen off badly. Look at USC after the Kiffen/Sark implosion. Even Miami...enough said on that. It is very hard to keep a top tier football program for decade after decade. Only a handful of schools have been able to do it. Oklahomo, Bama, Ohio State, USC....we are still the right hire away from being great...but we won't do it. Those schools mentioned above (sans Miami) have a serious institutional will to win. Whatever it takes even if we have to fuck it up for 10 years we WILL win big again. Anyone who thinks UC or the AD at UW has a deep in their balls will to win needs to get fucked. They don't. We lucked into DJ, and Seattle was a very different place in the late 70's/80's then it is now.
UW football is over. Finished. Get @HarveyRoad to write the obituary and let's bury it and all get all coked up and say who gives a shit. -
The shitty part about Lester Towns reference is in the last twenty years, he is absolutely a top ten linebacker.Dennis_DeYoung said:I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading. -
I'd like to meet the bottom dad over a glass of fucking Merlot that drinks like a Cab and see if I can fingerblast him in the men's bathroom.Swaye said:I fucking LOVE story time on this bored.
I would like to get shitfaced with one of Maka's Dads.
That's how I get down. -
Dennis_DeYoung said:
I remember the Warren Moon Rose Bowl, but the first game I really knew what was going on was the Tom Flick Rose Bowl. My first 'team' was the Seahawks (Zorn!), but that was before I even knew what the difference between college and pro were and I thought of it as simply abundance to be able to add a cool team with gold helmets to the team with silver helmets that I already liked.
In fact, when I was a kid, I processed some of my fanhood as simply being about metallic helmets. Saints? Yes! They had a cool design and were like the pro version of UW's unis with black! The Detroit Lions were like the Hawks only slightly cooler. On and on. Anyway...
I liked the UW and the Hawks pretty much equally (though I knew that the UW was actually a good team and that the Hawks kind of sucked) until Zorn got replaced by that fag Dave Krieg. Once that happened, I basically ditched interest in the Hawks and went with the team that had the higher standards.
It turned out that was really fun because there were local kids on the team (Jeff Jaeger! From my city!), the unis were dope and we used to beat people up. Defense first, a coach with a dope highlight show on Sundays who seemed like a genuinely good guy, it really all made sense.
The Orange Bowl was a formative moment for me: Purple Reign. Defense. Who gives a shit about offense? Leave that to the fags. We like to punch people. That's cool.
I wasn't old enough to be really critical of James during the late 80s. I thought of it as self-evident that he was a great coach and he just needed time. It turns out I was right, but for the wrong reasons. James had standards.
When you look back at James' career, it wasn't that he was Urban Meyer or Saban, but he was dope because he had standards and we were dope. We had an identity. It meant something to play 'like Washington'.
Of course, those standards led to a great 3 year run, but Oregon's had a 10 year run. Still what they accomplished hasn't quite been the same. It's identity is bullshit and transient and their fans are morons. Washington football was something a bit different. We were a Big 10 team in the Pac 10.
At the USC game in '95 I knew we were fucked. White pants. Fuck Lambo. Then '99 and '00 were fantastic years. Then the new Unis and Rick's fag offense. His soft players.
All of a sudden we weren't just dipwads in faggy uniforms—we had become just anybody. We weren't 'Washington' any more, we were just some team doing what a lot of teams do. No particularly 'specialness' or identity. Just going through the motions with some coach who didn't give two shits about Washington.
Then Gilby. We hit the ice-berg. He sucked and we hired him because we suck. The program was dead.
We hired Ty for no good reason and he didn't do much other than Take a 1 win team up to 5 wins, then back down to 0 once his players quit.
Then we hired Sark. We were nowheresville. No identity, nothing. Just some team.
Now we have Pete. We have a guy who explicitly says he doesn't have an 'offense' he 'just runs plays'.
To me, Washington will always be special because we had an identity and that identity both reflected and molded the values of the other half of the PNW. The Loggers, dock workers and all that shit. Everett and Puyallup.
Now the best programs in our state are in rich areas and we have a bunch of kids that have no idea what 'Washington' is about. Fucking Azeem Victor thinks Lester Towns was a legend. Lester Towns isn't a top-10 LB at WASHINGTON.
It's over, but I'm still here because fuck it. It's my life and this is what I do with it. I could change my name to Tommy DeYoung, but I'm Dennis.
It doesn't mean I wouldn't put an AIDS needle in Babushka in .2 seconds if I saw him today, though.
Thanks for reading.
I'm having trouble typing through the tears.
