Favorite Apple Cup Memory?
Don James' first Apple Cup, 1975. Huskies trailed 27-14 with 3:00 left. The Cuogs had the ball on the UW 7-yard line. WSU coach Jim Sweeney was beign urged by his players to score again and rub the Huskies' faces in it. So Cuog QB threw the ball, and it was picked off by Al Burleson and returned 93 yards for the TD.
UW kicked off and held WSU to a three-and-out. Huskies got the ball back. Warren Moon dropped back to pass in the rain, and threw a deep ball to Spider Gaines. The ball was tipped by a Cuog defender, and into the arms of Gaines, who galloped the rest of the way for the 73-yard scoring toss. UW won 28-27. (Note: I was four years old and did not attend this game, but started going to games the following year).
Marques Tuiasosopo leading UW past the Cuogs 24-14 in 1999. Paul Arnold had a 90-yard TD run in the downpour, back when we thought he was going to be the next Billy Sims. The next season, Tui led UW to the Rose Bowl Championship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9-xvoJg2Y3 OTs... and the Dawgs knock off Top 5 Cuog
Corey Williams is engulfed by teammate Khalif Barnes, after catching the game-winning pass from Cody Pickett in the 2003 Apple Cup. The Huskies had trailed 19-14 in the fourth quarter, but this TD followed by the pick 6 by the late Marquise Cooper, sealed the deal on the 27-19 win. As Cooper crossed the goal line, I happened to be standing behind the end zone next to Jim Lambright. I grabbed him and gave a big bear hug. He just turned and glared at me with his piercing blue-eyed stare. I let go and said with a grin, "Sorry coach!"
Myles MF Gaskin goes off in the Pullman snow as the UW running back is named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week. The Dawgs won this 2018 Apple Cup for the ages. My friendly acquaintance Jim Moore later penned, "I paid $600 for four tickets, lost $170 in three bets with Husky fans, froze my rear end off for nearly four hours, then spent three hours on snowy and icy US 95 during a white-knuckle, 85-mile drive from Moscow to Couer d'Alene, drenched to the bone.
"... I did not enjoy it."
So, what are some of your favorite Apple Cup memories?
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2007 getting pissed drunk before the game and calling some lady a bitch. Her boyfriend/husband punched me or shoved me. Cops come over and I get hemmed up and almost get arrested but my Coug friends vouched for me and the cops let me go.
I lost my cell phone in the process which sucked because I’d met a girl while I was still coherent and got her number but didn’t give her mine. Fun game and terrible hangover. -
1. Chris Polk pounding the Cougs mercilessly in 2010 to the tune of 284 yards rushing.
2. All of the Gaskin Apple Cups, collectively. I love that he never lost an Apple Cup in his career. -
1) 1990 I'm in 6th grade and one of my 2 dads takes me to Pullme and the Apple Cup. First, he didn't want to walk around the Student line to get in the Field house, so he took me through the student line decked in P&G. One of the cuog fathful let me know I was personally #1.
I go into the stadium early and someone calls in a bomb threat. PA announcer instructs everyone already in the stadium to look under their seats and if they see anything suspicious to stand up and raise their hands over their heads. The entire student sections stands and raises their hands up. The PA announcer "this is not a joke"
Lastly at Martin Stadium for players to get to the field from the locker room they had to cross the concourse in plain view of all. At the half, I stopped Mark Brunnel and get an autograph. That he stopped for 11 yo me is me and signed my ticket stub is a moment I will never forget.
2) Picket to C Williams. Sheer pandemonium in the stadium. Indelible moment..
3) In Pullme with the 2000 Rose Bowel team. Cold. As. Fuck. Up 4 or 5 scores at the half, peace out bitches. Apparently a WSU player felt the same and packed up his locker at the half, never to return. I seem to recall @dnc will know that famous WSU player's name who should be enshrined with a statue at Montlake.
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I know Derek already listed this game, but this specific play always stands out to me. I will never forget how that felt.pawz said:1) 1990 I'm in 6th grade and one of my 2 dads takes me to Pullme and the Apple Cup. First, he didn't want to walk around the Student line to get in the Field house, so he took me through the student line decked in P&G. One of the cuog fathful let me know I was personally #1.
I go into the stadium early and someone calls in a bomb threat. PA announcer instructs everyone already in the stadium to look under their seats and if they see anything suspicious to stand up and raise their hands over their heads. The entire student sections stands and raises their hands up. The PA announcer "this is not a joke"
Lastly at Martin Stadium for players to get to the field from the locker room they had to cross the concourse in plain view of all. At the half, I stopped Mark Brunnel and get an autograph. That he stopped for 11 yo me is me and signed my ticket stub is a moment I will never forget.
2) Picket to C Williams. Sheer pandemonium in the stadium. Indelible moment..
3) In Pullme with the 2000 Rose Bowel team. Cold. As. Fuck. Up 4 or 5 scores at the half, peace out bitches. Apparently a WSU player felt the same and packed up his locker at the half, never to return. I seem to recall @dnc will know that famous WSU player's name who should be enshrined with a statue at Montlake. -
NEVER ONCE BEATEN. EAT MY FUCKING ASS!!!
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I remember, in that moment, hoping Corey would be the next Reggie. Sadly, he never panned out that way.Mad_Son said:
I know Derek already listed this game, but this specific play always stands out to me. I will never forget how that felt.pawz said:1) 1990 I'm in 6th grade and one of my 2 dads takes me to Pullme and the Apple Cup. First, he didn't want to walk around the Student line to get in the Field house, so he took me through the student line decked in P&G. One of the cuog fathful let me know I was personally #1.
I go into the stadium early and someone calls in a bomb threat. PA announcer instructs everyone already in the stadium to look under their seats and if they see anything suspicious to stand up and raise their hands over their heads. The entire student sections stands and raises their hands up. The PA announcer "this is not a joke"
Lastly at Martin Stadium for players to get to the field from the locker room they had to cross the concourse in plain view of all. At the half, I stopped Mark Brunnel and get an autograph. That he stopped for 11 yo me is me and signed my ticket stub is a moment I will never forget.
2) Picket to C Williams. Sheer pandemonium in the stadium. Indelible moment..
3) In Pullme with the 2000 Rose Bowel team. Cold. As. Fuck. Up 4 or 5 scores at the half, peace out bitches. Apparently a WSU player felt the same and packed up his locker at the half, never to return. I seem to recall @dnc will know that famous WSU player's name who should be enshrined with a statue at Montlake. -
Another James JohnsonBCoveysLifeInsPolicy said:
I remember, in that moment, hoping Corey would be the next Reggie. Sadly, he never panned out that way.Mad_Son said:
I know Derek already listed this game, but this specific play always stands out to me. I will never forget how that felt.pawz said:1) 1990 I'm in 6th grade and one of my 2 dads takes me to Pullme and the Apple Cup. First, he didn't want to walk around the Student line to get in the Field house, so he took me through the student line decked in P&G. One of the cuog fathful let me know I was personally #1.
I go into the stadium early and someone calls in a bomb threat. PA announcer instructs everyone already in the stadium to look under their seats and if they see anything suspicious to stand up and raise their hands over their heads. The entire student sections stands and raises their hands up. The PA announcer "this is not a joke"
Lastly at Martin Stadium for players to get to the field from the locker room they had to cross the concourse in plain view of all. At the half, I stopped Mark Brunnel and get an autograph. That he stopped for 11 yo me is me and signed my ticket stub is a moment I will never forget.
2) Picket to C Williams. Sheer pandemonium in the stadium. Indelible moment..
3) In Pullme with the 2000 Rose Bowel team. Cold. As. Fuck. Up 4 or 5 scores at the half, peace out bitches. Apparently a WSU player felt the same and packed up his locker at the half, never to return. I seem to recall @dnc will know that famous WSU player's name who should be enshrined with a statue at Montlake. -
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My Dad still talks about 1975. He stayed until the end while many had already left to the bar. When he got to the bar to meet up afterwards his buddies thought he was making it all up
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Which dad?JaWarrenJaHooker said:My Dad still talks about 1975. He stayed until the end while many had already left to the bar. When he got to the bar to meet up afterwards his buddies thought he was making it all up
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Two come immediately to mind, my first was the 1991 game. My first attended game ever. I got a free 100 years of Husky football poster which I still have to this day. Our Dwags destroyed the Coug and roses covered the field. Amazing. Two, I happened to get AC tickets to the Pickett to Williams game. Being of age for that one I was quite drunk. I remember wandering around the stadium because I'd lost my seats. I came out of a random tunnel and started partying with a small portion of the band that had popped up on my side of the field, shared a shot of my flask with a drummer and trumpet player and then celebrated with and hugged a gaggle strangers that I didn't come with or sit with all because I was too drunk to find wherever the fuck I was sitting when the pass was completed. Unreal.
Aside: Does the Husky band still send out pockets of the band to play in different sections? Used to love that as a kid. -
2016 it was around 28-0 in the 2nd quarter.
Next morning on shitty local Pac 12 show Gesser was throwing a tantrum claiming Colorado was going to beat us down in P12CG while Cam Cleeland was laughing right next to him. Lot of unintentional comedy on that show which had a chucklefuck from each of the 4 schools every week. -
Since my first live attendance in 1980 (Joe Albi Stadium), through the last one (turning back to see Gabe Marks' knee shredded on the way out of "the Greatest Setting"), many of the details have been lost to time (and, excessive alcohol consumption at said games).
The motto of my "crew" over the years, which has been about 50 /50 Dawg / Cuog, has been "Win or lose, we booze"...no sulking, no pimping, have another beer. It was always our favorite weekend of the year. Ironically, most of the great memories / stories have come after our Mighty Men of Montlake have been defeated...
Chuck Nelson's shank sailing right over my head, finishing with a bonfire in Clete Casper's front yard (with part of a goal post).
In 88, one of my guys was a GA at WSU, and we played quarters with Jack Daniels post-game with Uncle Denny...One of the boys didn't have tix (a former teacher / coach of mine), and he marched in through the tunnel with the Cuog band, out onto the field, and ran to the sideline and jumped into the stands before they could catch him.
With no tix, having a dude throw a ladder over the fence under the scoreboard to us (which we quickly climbed) to get into the Snow Bowl.
Probably the one I cherish the most was the triple-overtime debacle in Pullman, sitting with my best friend (a Coug), with free Cuog tix (he was in the AD there). Bitter, bitter tears were tasted that night...and they were frozen.
I also remember 09 well...Got back from 2 weeks in Cabo the night before, hosted my guys pre-game, Jack Lockner goes off, and
being woken up by helicopters flying around our neighborhood for 2 days looking for the guy that shot 4 policemen in Lakewood (we apparently lived 2 blocks from his sister)...
We always approached it as being more about the experience than the score, as much as I wanted the Dawgs to win, it wasn't going to fuck up a great time...csb
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i forgot about that. it was great. that was Bill Bissell. perhaps @MelloDawg can provide some inside baseballtheknowledge said:Two come immediately to mind, my first was the 1991 game. My first attended game ever. I got a free 100 years of Husky football poster which I still have to this day. Our Dwags destroyed the Coug and roses covered the field. Amazing. Two, I happened to get AC tickets to the Pickett to Williams game. Being of age for that one I was quite drunk. I remember wandering around the stadium because I'd lost my seats. I came out of a random tunnel and started partying with a small portion of the band that had popped up on my side of the field, shared a shot of my flask with a drummer and trumpet player and then celebrated with and hugged a gaggle strangers that I didn't come with or sit with all because I was too drunk to find wherever the fuck I was sitting when the pass was completed. Unreal.
Aside: Does the Husky band still send out pockets of the band to play in different sections? Used to love that as a kid. -
Marquis Cooper #88 bringing back the INT. Husky Stadium was shaking as hard as ever.
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Helped rush the field in Pullman….twice
Jumping up and down with Patrick Reddick…him yelling at people on the goalposts. “TEAR THAT MOTHERFU**ER DOWN!”
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Corey Williams touchdown at the 2003 Apple cup. I was 10, It was my first Apple cup. My dad and I have been to a lot of awesome football games and Apple cups together since but that game kicked off my Husky fandom and is part of the reason I went to Uw for undergrad.
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Although my Cougs lost the ‘89 AC in Seattle I was thoroughly entertained when police maced UW students rushing the field. ‘We’ had a lousy team and lost by a ton, but the post-game cops v. kids scrimmage was heart-warming.
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2016 and 2018 clinching the pac 12 north was fun.
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All three were in Pullman and in person:
2018 Gaskin running 70ish yards for the winning score.
2016 The scene at the end with team coming over to the visiting section after the game and the celebration
2002 Apple cup going on to field after game and having projectiles whiz by my head, then trying to get back to the car alive. -
My freshman year in Pullman to clinch the Rose Bowl. Coldest I have ever been.
On the field after the game Larry Triplett grabbed me and lifted me up like a child, I was not a small person.
2000 was early in the everyone has cell phones era I’m pretty sure the technology hadn’t made it to Pullman yet. I got separated from my friends at some point, couldn’t get a hold of anyone. I might have frozen to death if I didn’t just happen to run in to a guy I had worked with that summer who let me sleep on his couch.
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Drunken Yella standing on this very table leading the entire bar in the "Go Huskies" cheer pretty much won the 2002 Apple Cup for us.
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Sitting in a Temecula pizza joint as Sark chokes out the 4th quarter and the pizza joint adopts the plucky undercoogs and cheers them to victory. I just rolled my eyes
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Did you flash your titties?YellowSnow said:Drunken Yella standing on this very table leading the entire bar in the "Go Huskies" cheer pretty much won the 2002 Apple Cup for us.
Asking for a fren. -
2003, Gilby's finest moment as HC
Worst: watching the 1982 AC from my dorm room at Central on a tiny BW set seeing the season crashing down along with the goal posts in Pullman. -
I don't really remember what it’s like to lose to coug
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I don't recall my favorites.
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The 3rd quarter pep band. Brad McDavid did it as well. If there was a product on the field good enough to where I frequently went to the games, I could address if they still do it or not. Everybody seemed to like it so I don’t see why they’d ever stop it.DerekJohnson said:
i forgot about that. it was great. that was Bill Bissell. perhaps @MelloDawg can provide some inside baseballtheknowledge said:Two come immediately to mind, my first was the 1991 game. My first attended game ever. I got a free 100 years of Husky football poster which I still have to this day. Our Dwags destroyed the Coug and roses covered the field. Amazing. Two, I happened to get AC tickets to the Pickett to Williams game. Being of age for that one I was quite drunk. I remember wandering around the stadium because I'd lost my seats. I came out of a random tunnel and started partying with a small portion of the band that had popped up on my side of the field, shared a shot of my flask with a drummer and trumpet player and then celebrated with and hugged a gaggle strangers that I didn't come with or sit with all because I was too drunk to find wherever the fuck I was sitting when the pass was completed. Unreal.
Aside: Does the Husky band still send out pockets of the band to play in different sections? Used to love that as a kid. -
2002 ?
Gordon Reece and the bahawkwards pass. With the dasani bottles being hurled onto the field MANY with an unknown yellowish liquid inside. Last leg of the NW championship. (Was there for all three.)
Drove back to Seattle after the game and my wife has me watch the sports recap. Turns out Hawaii and Cincinnati had a brawl because Cincnnati can't handle losing.
Both games (post games) made national news.
Oh, and got stopped by the State Patrol in the middle of the state for erratic driving. Thank Gwad my brother quit drinking so I was sober. He let me off once he saw I was a Husky fan.
