Great comebacks
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Yeah, but still.DerekJohnson said:
Either Gaspard or Bailey dropped a perfect pass in the end zone that would have beat ColoradoPurpleBaze said:
Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.GreenRiverGatorz said:I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.
I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing. -
That game is my earliest memory of football play calling frustration.PurpleBaze said:
Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.GreenRiverGatorz said:I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.
I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.
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@RaceBannon the 2000 game vs cal and the 93/94 season were great too. Typical tui game and Huard led them back from a 23-3 deficit in late 3rd quarter
This is when our players expected to never lose to
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The Curtis Williams game in 2000 was a great last drive. Tui threw three or four passes right down the field for the win. Zip, zip, zip game over. The 1989 UCLA game was one of my first memories of actually caring about Husky football. Greg Lewis running up the middle and then dancing in the end zone with the ball over his head will forever be logged in my memory. We? just didn't beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl at that time. We? just didn't.
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The Curtis Williams game was at Stanford and wasn’t shown on TV anywhere in Seattle. That was a great last second comeback.
A year later, in the last game before 9-11, we were down 12-6 to Michigan in the 4th when they lined up for a short FG. Instead of down 2 scores we blocked it and returned for a TD and the lead. After the kickoff we picked 6 to go up by 8. I can’t recall a similar swing, from nearly going down 2 scores to going up by 8 in the fourth. We kicked another FG to put the game away before Mich scored a meaningless TD. -
I left a game against Arizona in like 2003 only to hear the crowd roar as Reggie Williams took the game winner to the house.
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I'm think I remember watching that Stanford game on Prime Sports NW. It's possible I listened on the radio and watched the game on replay as I was young and drunk a lot but I'm pretty sure I watched it live.whlinder said:The Curtis Williams game was at Stanford and wasn’t shown on TV anywhere in Seattle. That was a great last second comeback.
A year later, in the last game before 9-11, we were down 12-6 to Michigan in the 4th when they lined up for a short FG. Instead of down 2 scores we blocked it and returned for a TD and the lead. After the kickoff we picked 6 to go up by 8. I can’t recall a similar swing, from nearly going down 2 scores to going up by 8 in the fourth. We kicked another FG to put the game away before Mich scored a meaningless TD. -
I've seen Greg Lewis at a few UW fundraiser golf tourneys over the years and I always ask him why he didn't touch the ball from the 7 yard line when he was averaging about 4.5 yards a carry.PurpleBaze said:
Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.GreenRiverGatorz said:I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.
I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.
He just smiled and never really answered.
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That Stanford game i was so disgusted i got in the car and headed to my go to glory hole for some pitty sex. Got the dial turned just in time to hear rondeau call the touchdown to Robbins. Pity sex turned into celebration sex.
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It was on TV. I had been watching games for a couple years by then but that is one of the first games I have clear specific memories of watching. I knew beating Jon Don's Uncle in Pasadena was a BFD. IFL'ed Greg Lewis.PurpleBaze said:I remember an article in the Seattle Tims before the 1988 Cal game about a senior Cal linebacker (I think his name was Ortega) who was sick of losing to the Huskies and how he wanted to silence the siren. Didn't work out too well for him in the second half of that game.
I remember that UCLA game also. I'm not sure if it was televised, but at the very least I was listening on the radio. I couldn't stand them, because they had our? number and I thought they got the calls from the wefs when they played in Seattle with Aikman and beat the Huskies. Anyway, I held a high level of contempt for the Bruins, especially after the 1990 debacle and then the whole JJ Stokes game against puppy's beloved Lambo.
