What was your first truly epic meltdown as a Husky fan?
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Hiring Willingham. I knew it was going to be a disaster.
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97 Oregon. 97 and 99 UCLA.
The tie against USC in 95 might have been the first game I went to. I think I went to a game or 2 before that, but don’t really remember. -
When you guys started dooging over peterman while having a kicker that missed 3 field goals. Its the game where that one hot bball chick does the confused point at the scoreboard
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I have a friend who does bidness with UWAD, and he gets REALLY good tickets in kind. During the Ty Willie debacle, he couldn't give them away to his clients (they didn't want them). Every Friday before home games, for 2-3 years, he would call me to see if I wanted a couple. My wife is a bigger doog than I am, so we took them...prime parking, the whole deal.
It's my bride's birthday, 2006, we are playing a winless Stanford...what can go wrong? Heavy tailgating, and I've got airplane bottles of Crown (for me), and Grey Goose (for her). Because we are in the "fancy" seats, she is nervous about loading up her lemonade. My technique for concealed drinking is, when you get your shot, take it, one time, one big cocktail, for the rest of the game. So, I poured four geese into her lemonade, setting her up for a nice, even buzz for the next 3-plus hours, and did the same for me with the Crown (with cola). Right before half time, she's like "I need to go get in line for another lemonade"...Oh, shit.
Second half starts, and she is losing her shit, on almost every play, LOUDLY. LSS, after repeatedly screaming "FIRE THAT FUCKING IDIOT", I sat her down and explained that, while true, it wasn't a good thing to yell, gesturing to a nice African American family sitting a few rows down and over from us, with a young man wearing a Skyline football hoodie with, you guessed it, "WILLINGHAM" on the back. She calmed down a little bit, but by the bitter end, as we were leaving, she tried to jam her birthday present, a Nike UW jacket I had given her before the game, into a garbage can. We still laugh about that shit...
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Love your story @Fishpo31
Mine was this:
The 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game was a college football game between the Oregon State Beavers and Washington Huskies that took place at Husky Stadium in Seattle on October 19, 1985. The Pac-10 conference game featured the largest overcome point spread in college football history at the time when the Huskies, favored by 38 points at home,[1][2][3] lost 21–20 after the Beavers blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the end zone with 1:29 left to play.[4] It is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. -
‘98 Arizona game. My dad died a few weeks later. That was last game all 3 of us went too. Said I would never attend a UA game again.
Fast forward ‘06 I think it was...LDD and I are sitting in our seats against UA....and the guys in front of us turn around..”hey..you want sideline passes and go down on the field?”
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If it makes you feel any better I don't think I'll attend an arizona game again. Dealing with the locals is fucking gnarlyHuskyJW said:‘98 Arizona game. My dad died a few weeks later. That was last game all 3 of us went too. Said I would never attend a UA game again.
Fast forward ‘06 I think it was...LDD and I are sitting in our seats against UA....and the guys in front of us turn around..”hey..you want sideline passes and go down on the field?”
That was crazy -
My most memorable game story is this one:
so I moved to Malibu in 2002 and then to Oakland in 2010... I’ve got some traveling money so after watching what I thought was every big game and really most games between 1959-2002 I decide that I need to fly in for some games, which I then periodically do.
My highlight game is this one tho...
my 50 year old diehard husky fan nephew calls me up to buy tickets to go to the stadium opening Boise State Game and I say sorry; I’ve already bought tickets on the 50. Disappointed he says who are you going with, and I say you.
Fast forward to game day and I catch a morning flight in Oakland and I see a family that is all jacked up about their trip and they are wearing a massive display of husky gear so I go by to say hi and kibitz about the game
Turns out that it’s Travis Feeneys family so I congratulate them on a great kid that I said was going to be a star, which all of us agreed was going to happen
so a lovely time. I get on the plane and 10 minutes into the air for a 2 hour flight I start to pass a kidney stone. Perfect; I had never had the experience but was pretty sure that was what was happening so I calmly ordered 3 mini bottles of gin which the stewardess took a dim view of
So the drinks come 10 minutes later and by then I’m have real trouble handling the pain but I don’t say anything because I’m trying to keep my shit together
I drink the drinks and it doesn’t really touch the pain so I get up and ask the stewardess if they have any aspirin [no] and tell her I’m in a lot of pain, think I’ve got a kidney stone or Something which goes over like a lead balloon. This is with like an hour 20 left to go on the flight
So I have 2 more bottles and do anything I can think of to stay calm. The time I spent in my seat was enough to make everyone around me think that I was clearly a looney person and undoubtedly dangerous
Finally we get to Seattle and after being the first person off the plane and through the terminal, my nephew picks me up and I tell him what’s going on and say sorry we have to go to the hospital
So I pick Swedish and when we get there I say I need to get loaded up with whatever they have to kill the pain.. so they give me the deluxe treatment... the bill was like 3500 and they max me out with what I think was diladin which amazingly immediately kills the pain
so now I’m instantly back, gracious coherent and convincing... I ask how long the injection is going to last and I’m told about 2 hours... so I say can you give me another injection,I flew into town and I want to go to the Husky football game with my nephew here.
The doctor smiles and says well you do seem to be tolerating the diladin well so yah I can give you a booster shot and you can go to the pharmacy on the way out to get the rest of the pain killers you will need
So I grew up in montlake so I called a pal that lives on Hamlin and we parked on his lawn at the last minute and stumbled over to the game
Long story short, we arrived at kickoff; watched the dawgs kick ass and I had a tremendous drug induced game day experience.
Definitely my most dramatic game day experience
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Where to start?
Doogism is a progressive disease, so I continuously redefine rock bottom as the meltdowns add up.
I remember really wanting 10 wins heading into the holiday bowl in1996 and loved Corey Dillon. We went up 14-0 and was celebrating with my dad before we choked it away, leaving me inconsolable.
But excluding child tantrums, the 12 men on the field against Michigan left me feeling truly robbed for the first time. -
Yep, cried into my grandparents' shag carpet. I even pulled out a couple pieces of shag in rage!!EwaDawg said:Oct. 30, 1982: Stanford 43, Washington 31. Fuck.John.Elway.
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Baabs gave our whole team free tickets to the ‘96 Holiday Bowl. What a miserable first in person bowl game experience. So bad I didn’t go to another one for 20 years.Doogles said:Where to start?
Doogism is a progressive disease, so I continuously redefine rock bottom as the meltdowns add up.
I remember really wanting 10 wins heading into the holiday bowl in1996 and loved Corey Dillon. We went up 14-0 and was celebrating with my dad before we choked it away, leaving me inconsolable.
But excluding child tantrums, the 12 men on the field against Michigan left me feeling truly robbed for the first time. -
10 wins used to be a big deal.Doogles said:Where to start?
Doogism is a progressive disease, so I continuously redefine rock bottom as the meltdowns add up.
I remember really wanting 10 wins heading into the holiday bowl in1996 and loved Corey Dillon. We went up 14-0 and was celebrating with my dad before we choked it away, leaving me inconsolable.
But excluding child tantrums, the 12 men on the field against Michigan left me feeling truly robbed for the first time.
UCLA in 1990 took a year off my life.
12 men at Michigan, that lasted for a whole season. Rick never really recovered.
I would also throw in losing to Texas in the Holiday Bowl sponsored by Chris Massey. -
Fishpo31 said:
I have a friend who does bidness with UWAD, and he gets REALLY good tickets in kind. During the Ty Willie debacle, he couldn't give them away to his clients (they didn't want them). Every Friday before home games, for 2-3 years, he would call me to see if I wanted a couple. My wife is a bigger doog than I am, so we took them...prime parking, the whole deal.
It's my bride's birthday, 2006, we are playing a winless Stanford...what can go wrong? Heavy tailgating, and I've got airplane bottles of Crown (for me), and Grey Goose (for her). Because we are in the "fancy" seats, she is nervous about loading up her lemonade. My technique for concealed drinking is, when you get your shot, take it, one time, one big cocktail, for the rest of the game. So, I poured four geese into her lemonade, setting her up for a nice, even buzz for the next 3-plus hours, and did the same for me with the Crown (with cola). Right before half time, she's like "I need to go get in line for another lemonade"...Oh, shit.
Second half starts, and she is losing her shit, on almost every play, LOUDLY. LSS, after repeatedly screaming "FIRE THAT FUCKING IDIOT", I sat her down and explained that, while true, it wasn't a good thing to yell, gesturing to a nice African American family sitting a few rows down and over from us, with a young man wearing a Skyline football hoodie with, you guessed it, "WILLINGHAM" on the back. She calmed down a little bit, but by the bitter end, as we were leaving, she tried to jam her birthday present, a Nike UW jacket I had given her before the game, into a garbage can. We still laugh about that shit...
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Underchinneddannarc said:I think it was '95, loss to Notre Dame at home. My two dads and I had season tickets next to the visitors section which was awesome most of the tim in the 90's(classy heckling). Some little elf looking prick with some kind of flute kept playing their fight song as we lost the lead late in the game.
I also remember another gayme in mid 90's with Huard throwing a lame duck up for grabs and the Coogs storming the field as the rain fell in Husky Stadium.
Those two losses pissed me off the most, now I am a well conditioned loser -
I'm still looking forward to my big breakdown. My money is on a Furd loss in the next couple of years after seeing this at the end of the 4th
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Nobody's going to say anything about this post being right-justified? WTF has happened to this place?DawgsCanDance said:Love your story @Fishpo31
Mine was this:
The 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game was a college football game between the Oregon State Beavers and Washington Huskies that took place at Husky Stadium in Seattle on October 19, 1985. The Pac-10 conference game featured the largest overcome point spread in college football history at the time when the Huskies, favored by 38 points at home,[1][2][3] lost 21–20 after the Beavers blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the end zone with 1:29 left to play.[4] It is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. -
RIP Bruce Snyder!YellowSnow said:Arizona in 1992. 22 game win streak heading in, but no Camaro. Dawgs ranked #1 after Zona goes wide right against @creepycoug in the Orange Bowl. A young HS aged Yella stomps down to his room and starts melting down to Pweston levels throwing out every explicative I knew.
1990 was the first year I had consciousness as UDub fan but don't recall being that emotional about UCLA. My old man was losing his shit though.
Listen to Keith at about 2:30 describe the Washington Huskies as being DOOMED! 4:00 mark for clip of wide right against Miami. Fans ripping down the goal posts before the game was over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjZiq4Oh1U -
Loss at Pullman, had been married short time living in small shitty house. I was so frustrated took dog for a walk and sat on a bench for a while like something out of a bad Hallmark movie. Walked back home and just went to bed, it was still light outside.chuck said:I can only remember a couple of meltdowns and they're pretty standard answers.
1) 1990 UCLA
2) 1992 Arizona
3) The Keith Price/Sark come from ahead shitshow loss at Pullman. I dont know why I cared so much on this one. It was frustrating as hell though.
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So I didn’t grow up watching UW football every Saturday because I played soccer as a kid. I then became a straight man as I matured and stopped playing soccer after the 8th grade.
My first, pissed off melt down was definitely UCLA in 1990. I became a huge CFB fan during my freshman year year of high school and by time I was a junior in 1990, UW was great and I fell in love with the way they dominated.
A couple other notable meltdowns. 12 men on the field vs Michigan. I was in an apartment and threw my UW mini helmet across the living room. My neighbor called to ask if e dry thing was ok.
BYU in 2010 (?) when Sark was part of some ceremony at halftime getting FREE PUB instead of making adjustments. I remember being at my brothers house, game ended and I just left. Said nothing to anyone. Got home and tore off my UW shirt and hat and threw them across the living room. Told Mrs Nacho to burn them. She instead calmed me down and took me to see Inception. -
Air Force “away” game at whatever the fuck Seahawks stadium was called back then. Buddy’s mom hooked us up with luxury suite tickets for like 15 of our friends. There were also several of her coworkers and their friends and family in the suite. Before the game was actually over I tore the bill off my UW cap and threw the separate pieces over the balcony. I then walked home to Queen Anne by myself.
Wasn’t actually my first meltdown, but it was a memorable one. -
I became a fan in 90 and it’s like a drug you can’t quit unfortunately. I hate myself. You can tell from my age why i hate lambo so much growing up in sw Washington he made my adolescent years a constant suicide watch due to underachieving husky football teams.
Arizona 92
Lambo the pick vs Oregon
Lambo wales missed fg vs Oregon
Lambo loss from ahead notre dame
Lambo tied usc from ahead Witaf happened that game?!?
Lambo akili smith melt down vs Oregon
Lambo Ryan leaf -
Take it to the Tug1to392831weretaken said:
Nobody's going to say anything about this post being right-justified? WTF has happened to this place?DawgsCanDance said:Love your story @Fishpo31
Mine was this:
The 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game was a college football game between the Oregon State Beavers and Washington Huskies that took place at Husky Stadium in Seattle on October 19, 1985. The Pac-10 conference game featured the largest overcome point spread in college football history at the time when the Huskies, favored by 38 points at home,[1][2][3] lost 21–20 after the Beavers blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the end zone with 1:29 left to play.[4] It is considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. -
My last one was the Peach Bowl pick 6
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Is this some kinda whoosh @dtd ?dtd said:
RIP Bruce Snyder!YellowSnow said:Arizona in 1992. 22 game win streak heading in, but no Camaro. Dawgs ranked #1 after Zona goes wide right against @creepycoug in the Orange Bowl. A young HS aged Yella stomps down to his room and starts melting down to Pweston levels throwing out every explicative I knew.
1990 was the first year I had consciousness as UDub fan but don't recall being that emotional about UCLA. My old man was losing his shit though.
Listen to Keith at about 2:30 describe the Washington Huskies as being DOOMED! 4:00 mark for clip of wide right against Miami. Fans ripping down the goal posts before the game was over.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjZiq4Oh1U -
I remember quite a few fans being upset about Lambo getting the head coaching job, he was a great D mind but didn't necessarily translate to being a great captain. Lambo losses > Petersen losses...We used to lose while putting up a fight, yeah, good tims. Don't twist, I love LamboAtomicDawg said:I became a fan in 90 and it’s like a drug you can’t quit unfortunately. I hate myself. You can tell from my age why i hate lambo so much growing up in sw Washington he made my adolescent years a constant suicide watch due to underachieving husky football teams.
Arizona 92
Lambo the pick vs Oregon
Lambo wales missed fg vs Oregon
Lambo loss from ahead notre dame
Lambo tied usc from ahead Witaf happened that game?!?
Lambo akili smith melt down vs Oregon
Lambo Ryan leaf
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Good call. Forgot about that game and it was definitely disappointing.Doogles said:Where to start?
Doogism is a progressive disease, so I continuously redefine rock bottom as the meltdowns add up.
I remember really wanting 10 wins heading into the holiday bowl in1996 and loved Corey Dillon. We went up 14-0 and was celebrating with my dad before we choked it away, leaving me inconsolable.
But excluding child tantrums, the 12 men on the field against Michigan left me feeling truly robbed for the first time. -
An underreported note of the ‘95 Notre Dame game was that Seattle was wayyy more abuzz with the “Refuse to Lose” Mariners.
I was a pledge slanging hot dogs at that game and an exodus of dawg fans left to watch the M’s while UW was still in it. -
Fucking Seattle. I really hate this city sometimes.Quietcowskee said:An underreported note of the ‘95 Notre Dame game was that Seattle was wayyy more abuzz with the “Refuse to Lose” Mariners.
I was a pledge slanging hot dogs at that game and an exodus of dawg fans left to watch the M’s while UW was still in it.
OK, most of the time. -
I really hate the Mariners. They could win it all next year and I would not GAF
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I'm picking up on a pattern here.AtomicDawg said:I became a fan in 90 and it’s like a drug you can’t quit unfortunately. I hate myself. You can tell from my age why i hate lambo so much growing up in sw Washington he made my adolescent years a constant suicide watch due to underachieving husky football teams.
Arizona 92
Lambo the pick vs Oregon
Lambo wales missed fg vs Oregon
Lambo loss from ahead notre dame
Lambo tied usc from ahead Witaf happened that game?!?
Lambo akili smith melt down vs Oregon
Lambo Ryan leaf
