Track has fallen on some hard times like tennis with the public. I used to watch the pre Olympic stuff as well as the Olympics. I think the death of Wide World of Sports and the plethora of options today matters
People remember the 72 Olympics for terrorism and the Soviets stealing our basketball gold
Did you know a Russian white boy won the 100 and 200 meters. Just 4 years after the black gloves on the medal stand for the 200
Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis, the 80's USA Women were all great. Couldn't tell you anyone other than Ussain Bolt today
Track has fallen on some hard times like tennis with the public. I used to watch the pre Olympic stuff as well as the Olympics. I think the death of Wide World of Sports and the plethora of options today matters
People remember the 72 Olympics for terrorism and the Soviets stealing our basketball gold
Did you know a Russian white boy won the 100 and 200 meters. Just 4 years after the black gloves on the medal stand for the 200
Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis, the 80's USA Women were all great. Couldn't tell you anyone other than Ussain Bolt today
Sad
Valeriy Borzov. I remember as a kid reading about and wondering how that could be. He looked slow in my young eyes. I'm sure steroids played no part in his exploits.
I don't follow names much either except for the sprints, where I tend to know who the fastest five or six are in the 1 and the 2. Carl Lewis is a guy who should be more famous today except that he had an incredibly annoying personality and he was a little effeminate and off-putting to the average Joe. He tried way too hard; who can forget his singing phase and the national anthem at some basketball game.
But, he was a consistent sub 10 100 meter guy, sub 20 200 meter guy and was probably the most dominant long jumper over a career of all time. Nobody beat him in the jump ever during his run, and had like a shit ton of jumps over 28' feet. But, he didn't break the record ... someone else did ... and his all-time best in the 100 and 200 have been beaten many times and he didn't hold a sprint record for any length of tim. So he was dominant in the sense that he was the last Jesse Owens-type as a guy who could do the 100 and the 200 and the jump and do them at an elite level. Everyone else is and was a specialist. But he was never Usain Bolt, except arguably as a jumper, but he never got that record. Thanks Beamon!
Track has fallen on some hard times like tennis with the public. I used to watch the pre Olympic stuff as well as the Olympics. I think the death of Wide World of Sports and the plethora of options today matters
People remember the 72 Olympics for terrorism and the Soviets stealing our basketball gold
Did you know a Russian white boy won the 100 and 200 meters. Just 4 years after the black gloves on the medal stand for the 200
Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis, the 80's USA Women were all great. Couldn't tell you anyone other than Ussain Bolt today
Sad
Valeriy Borzov. I remember as a kid reading about and wondering how that could be. He looked slow in my young eyes. I'm sure steroids played no part in his exploits.
I don't follow names much either except for the sprints, where I tend to know who the fastest five or six are in the 1 and the 2. Carl Lewis is a guy who should be more famous today except that he had an incredibly annoying personality and he was a little effeminate and off-putting to the average Joe. He tried way too hard; who can forget his singing phase and the national anthem at some basketball game.
But, he was a consistent sub 10 100 meter guy, sub 20 200 meter guy and was probably the most dominant long jumper over a career of all time. Nobody beat him in the jump ever during his run, and had like a shit ton of jumps over 28' feet. But, he didn't break the record ... someone else did ... and his all-time best in the 100 and 200 have been beaten many times and he didn't hold a sprint record for any length of tim. So he was dominant in the sense that he was the last Jesse Owens-type as a guy who could do the 100 and the 200 and the jump and do them at an elite level. Everyone else is and was a specialist. But he was never Usain Bolt, except arguably as a jumper, but he never got that record. Thanks Beamon!
I remember sitting in Hayward field as a high school senior while Bellotti gave some contractually obligated speech thinking, "God this school is white trash. Thank God I grew up north of the river."
Really? Even with CHOP owning your city? Sorry but the game is over and Seattle won. Your town might not be white trash, but we can smell your city’s fish stench down here. At least you guys have Spirit Fox.
The funny thing is you don't see Eugene doing the same eventually.
The sad thing is you're bagging on Oregon solely because your own football team sucks.
Imagine what happens to this loser piece of shit if Oregon goes on another 10 football ass reaming of UW.
Lol you think I bag on Oregon because of UW's apathy alone and not my own personal experiences being a CTO in Portland watching your alums draw stick figures for me w crayons?
You’re trying too hard.
I’m a business owner, and my employees are UW, WSU, UO, Seattle U, Portland State, Sac St, and one Chapman grad. All of them bring value, although I’d say the Sac St head shows the most promise, long term. The Chapman grad requires the most hand holding, and the WSU grad is probably the hardest worker. None of this means anything, but let’s just say that I have to question your leadership acumen as an executive, if you’re going to degrade your rank and file reports because they were educated at a school who’s football team you don’t like. I’m going to question you even further if you’re paying these people to draw stick figures for you.
I guess my advice is to try not to press so much. It’s coming off as forced and awkward.
HTH
El oh El.
I have two brothers in law who are Oregon grads. If Oregon grads can show me an ability to architect cloud solutions for large companies in e commerce, I prefer that. They probably actually care about college football and would be enjoyable to work with. Having some common ground matters in what I do given the time commitment.
But in the richest part of downtown I've only seen the ability from doogs, Cuogs (majority of my department), beavlet, some Vikings and other local colleges, and some self taught people. Have a Texas State grad and a longhorn.
Some quooks have come and gone within sales, fortifying my argument even more.
Sure you can go Oregon and be some marketing/sales peon and puke grellow with your fat wife and talk shit to doogs at Autzen. That's not the game I play though.
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People remember the 72 Olympics for terrorism and the Soviets stealing our basketball gold
Did you know a Russian white boy won the 100 and 200 meters. Just 4 years after the black gloves on the medal stand for the 200
Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis, the 80's USA Women were all great. Couldn't tell you anyone other than Ussain Bolt today
Sad
I don't follow names much either except for the sprints, where I tend to know who the fastest five or six are in the 1 and the 2. Carl Lewis is a guy who should be more famous today except that he had an incredibly annoying personality and he was a little effeminate and off-putting to the average Joe. He tried way too hard; who can forget his singing phase and the national anthem at some basketball game.
But, he was a consistent sub 10 100 meter guy, sub 20 200 meter guy and was probably the most dominant long jumper over a career of all time. Nobody beat him in the jump ever during his run, and had like a shit ton of jumps over 28' feet. But, he didn't break the record ... someone else did ... and his all-time best in the 100 and 200 have been beaten many times and he didn't hold a sprint record for any length of tim. So he was dominant in the sense that he was the last Jesse Owens-type as a guy who could do the 100 and the 200 and the jump and do them at an elite level. Everyone else is and was a specialist. But he was never Usain Bolt, except arguably as a jumper, but he never got that record. Thanks Beamon!
You need the big headliner in the sprints to draw interest. We haven’t owned that in 20 years.