What was your first truly epic meltdown as a Husky fan?
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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.
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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.
