What is your 1st memory of Husky Football?

dnc

GrundleStiltzkin said:

dnc said:

Sarkingham said:

My first real memories were of the 84 team and the controversy with BYU. We had mormon neighbors who were huge BYU fans, and my dad and grandfather talked enormous amounts of shit to them. First game I saw in person was in 91 against Arizona. Their QB (George Malauulu) nearly died that day. Seeing that defense in person was something else.

I was there!

Oddly enough we hosted them in 90 as well and I was also at that massacre - second game I ever attended.

90 San Jose State was my first.

#metoo

Did Arizona punt on third down once?

I was 10 so I don't really remember. Wouldn't shock me though.

RoadDawg55

I think it was the Whammy in Miami. I remember Bob Sapp and really liking Richard Thomas. First game I remember going to was the tie against USC in 95. I’m pretty sure I had been to a game or two before that, but I can’t remember which games.

digits

My first memory of Husky Football was crying hysterically as a young child in the 80s because my grandpa, dad, and uncle would be yelling at the TV so loud and violently, while watching Husky games at Gramps' house.

My uncle took me to my first game at Husky Stadium, but we've had trouble figuring out exactly which game it was... sometime in the mid to late 80s. He attended a game at Husky Stadium on his wedding day.

I understood from a young age that Husky Football was serious business.

FireCohen

digits said:

My first memory of Husky Football was crying hysterically as a young child in the 80s because my grandpa, dad, and uncle would be yelling at the TV so loud and violently, while watching Husky games at Gramps' house.

My uncle took me to my first game at Husky Stadium, but we've had trouble figuring out exactly which game it was... sometime in the mid to late 80s. He attended a game at Husky Stadium on his wedding day.

I understood from a young age that Husky Football was serious business.

Did they survive the glory of owentwelve

Gladstone

Fuck all of you that were at UW in the early nineties. That must have fucking ruled.

I got 0-12.

PurpleBaze

Gladstone said:

Fuck all of you that were at UW in the early nineties. That must have fucking ruled.

I got 0-12.

It did. You have no idea how much fun it was. Of course it was also a curse. Been waiting for almost 30 fucking years to get back to that level of play.

LostDoogReward

RoadDawg55 said:

I think it was the Whammy in Miami. I remember Bob Sapp and really liking Richard Thomas. First game I remember going to was the tie against USC in 95. I’m pretty sure I had been to a game or two before that, but I can’t remember which games.

My dad keeps a vcr player specifically to watch the Whammy in Miami tape. We watch it at least once a year.

Baphomet

I can't identify a single memory as my single 1st memory of Husky football. I was drunk and stoned a lot during my first year as a student at UW, thus many of the memories all blur together or aren't in chronological order. Even though I attended most games and sat with friends in the student section, we normally had to read the paper the next day to see what happened.

A few of the memories that stand out from that 1984 season include:

- smuggling in pints of bourbon taped to our calves under our army surplus wool trousers
- pushing some Phi Gamma Deltas out of the way when they tried telling us that some seats were reserved
- throwing food at the cheerleaders (one of them was from my high school -- inglemoor)
- smoking bowls in the stands and trying to be discreet about it
- wondering why the husky cheerleaders weren't very attractive
- grabbing a girl that was passing in front of our row and then body-passing her up the stands
- barking as loud as we could but not always at the appropriate times
- leaving the stadium after the game and walking across campus in a huge pack to Pagliaccis on the Ave
- waking up in the Pagliacci's stall with the manager yelling at me that others had to use the bathroom too
- my friends dragging me out of Pagliacci's before I caused a scene
- my friends heading to a party but me deciding that I'm going to take the bus back to our apartment because I was too drunk
- waking up a few hours later in the bushes next to the bus stop with some chick giving me a weird look

Pretty good year of memories all together.

I think we won some games too.

PurpleBaze

@Baphomet, the body-passing of girls, pot-smoking, and throwing food (at the cuog marching band) are a few things I remember from the 1987 Apple Cup. The student section definitely was a lot more fun back then. It had tamed down considerably in a three-year span... was a lot more docile when I got to campus in 1990.

digits

PurpleBaze said:

Gladstone said:

Fuck all of you that were at UW in the early nineties. That must have fucking ruled.

I got 0-12.

It did. You have no idea how much fun it was. Of course it was also a curse. Been waiting for almost 30 fucking years to get back to that level of play.

No curse. It was the UW Admin. not having the balls to support their legendary HC. The fact they allowed the Pac-10 to pile it on top of us is unconscionable. Shame on them.