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A loss that hurt

Quietcowskee
Quietcowskee Member Posts: 4,486 Standard Supporter
edited July 2021 in Hardcore Husky Board
Can you remember a game that started the process of ripping your heart out as a Husky fan?

Mine? Cal in 2002. Dawgs hadn’t lost to Cal since 1976. Nnamdi Asomugha bodied Reggie and Kyle Boller ripped it on us. Total shock. They actually did it.

It was a given that we’d never lose to Cal. Neuhiesal’s team was becoming pass-happy and soft. Mediocrity was starting to set in and it sucked.


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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    Quietcowskee said:

    Can you remember a game that started the process of ripping your heart out as a Husky fan?

    Mine? Cal in 2002. Dawgs hadn’t lost to Cal since 1976. Nnamdi Asomugha bodied Reggie and Kyle Boller ripped it on us. Total shock. They actually did it.

    It was a given that we’d never lose to Cal. Neuhiesal’s team was becoming pass-happy and soft. Mediocrity was starting to set in and it sucked.


    Same game
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,315 Founders Club
    1979 ASU
    1982 WSU
    1986 ASU
    1988 WSU
    1992 Arizona
    1994 Oregon
    1995 Oregon
    2003 Nevada
    2006 Stanford
    2007 Cal
    2008 Oklahoma
    2008 WSU
    2010 Stanford
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,315 Founders Club
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    1979 ASU
    1982 WSU
    1986 ASU
    1988 WSU
    1992 Arizona
    1994 Oregon
    1995 Oregon
    2003 Nevada
    2006 Stanford
    2007 Cal
    2008 Oklahoma
    2008 WSU
    2010 Stanford

    Surprised you didn’t mention UCLA in 90
    It hurt bad but for some reason it wasn't traumatizing
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  • BeerThirty
    BeerThirty Member Posts: 2,465
    92 Apple Cup too
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,862 Swaye's Wigwam
    It was 1990 UCLA for me, hands down.

    Many of the losses under Petersen make the list. I can't really call anything between 1997 and 2014 real disappointing because my expectations were low. Maybe the Sun bowl vs Purdue, or the 2000 loss at Oregon would make it.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    2002 Cal was the first time I felt like the program was going hard down the mountain

    1990 UCLA hurt for completely different reasons knowing that a win likely meant a national title … Greg Lewis getting hurt and Mark Brunell not knowing how to throw the football is something that I’ll never feel great about …

    1992 Arizona because as a teenager I was in the mindset that UW had a big swinging duck and didn’t lose to ANYBODY … much less Arizona … grown up me would have bet heavy on Arizona that week

    1995 USC turning a 21-0 lead into a come from ahead tie to lose out on the Rose Bowl … that was way more impactful than some of the other games like the Ortege flip game

    There have been a handful of games that left me shaking my head (notably during the Sark years) … but few games have left me where a walk for perspective didn’t do the trick
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