The Marinerization of Husky Football spells Doom for the Future

Homebrew_Dawg said:

MikeDamone said:

RoadDawg55 said:

He_Needs_More_Time said:

When we finish 9-4 Doogs will consider that "special".

RIP Washington.

I haven't seen any of the "special" bullshit lately, but I have seen Kim talking about how we just aren't quite there yet, but it is a lot better than Tyrone. His emails from back then remind him how much Sark has accomplished.

Seems like yesterday that Kim said after ASJ comes back from suspension, the offense would be "scary".

Who or where is ASJ?

MikeDamone said:

Tailgater said:

When I told my son in Mill creek that I'd decided not to come over for the Oregon game, he seemed disappointed since I'd indicated to him after the BSU game that I planned on attending. He'd forgotten that I'd conditioned my attending the Oregon game on the Huskies beating Stanford the previous week. I don't know and didn't ask if he was disappointed that we would not be going to a game in Husky Stadium together or that my attending and taking three grandsons with me would allow him to stay home. I hope it was the former, since the grandsons have never seen UW beat Oregon, at least not that they can remember and thus as dedicated Huskyfans, they will always want to attend just in case the upset should ever happen....... and their dad should be there to experience such an event with his sons.

My oldest son just turned 50 and he and I have a history of attending HS football games as well as Husky games together. It really got going when I was working at Hanford in 1970,-71, and -72, living in Richland, and the boy and I would drive over early Saturday morning, eat a lunch out of the tailgate of my Datsun 510 wagon, and drive home in the evening after the game,...... which more often than not thanks to Sonny Sixkiller and crew was a win. That was great father-son bonding while enjoying pure fun even better than our salmon fishing trips to La push and Westport later after we moved back to Seattle. Those memories always keep me reminded of how much we have lost with the destruction of Husky Football at the hands of incompetent management under indifferent UW administration over the past ten years. Unless drastic change somehow falls on us like a surprise tsunami, Huskies may never feast on Crispy or Peking duck again.

Sounds like your son went to husky games with his dad on crisp fall afternoons.

I think the first year I really started going to UW games, UW went 1-10.

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

MikeDamone said:

Tailgater said:

When I told my son in Mill creek that I'd decided not to come over for the Oregon game, he seemed disappointed since I'd indicated to him after the BSU game that I planned on attending. He'd forgotten that I'd conditioned my attending the Oregon game on the Huskies beating Stanford the previous week. I don't know and didn't ask if he was disappointed that we would not be going to a game in Husky Stadium together or that my attending and taking three grandsons with me would allow him to stay home. I hope it was the former, since the grandsons have never seen UW beat Oregon, at least not that they can remember and thus as dedicated Huskyfans, they will always want to attend just in case the upset should ever happen....... and their dad should be there to experience such an event with his sons.

My oldest son just turned 50 and he and I have a history of attending HS football games as well as Husky games together. It really got going when I was working at Hanford in 1970,-71, and -72, living in Richland, and the boy and I would drive over early Saturday morning, eat a lunch out of the tailgate of my Datsun 510 wagon, and drive home in the evening after the game,...... which more often than not thanks to Sonny Sixkiller and crew was a win. That was great father-son bonding while enjoying pure fun even better than our salmon fishing trips to La push and Westport later after we moved back to Seattle. Those memories always keep me reminded of how much we have lost with the destruction of Husky Football at the hands of incompetent management under indifferent UW administration over the past ten years. Unless drastic change somehow falls on us like a surprise tsunami, Huskies may never feast on Crispy or Peking duck again.

Sounds like your son went to husky games with his dad on crisp fall afternoons.

I think the first year I really started going to UW games, UW went 1-10.

Your dad is worse than Hitler.

He_Needs_More_Time said:

Tailgater said:

When I told my son in Mill creek that I'd decided not to come over for the Oregon game, he seemed disappointed since I'd indicated to him after the BSU game that I planned on attending. He'd forgotten that I'd conditioned my attending the Oregon game on the Huskies beating Stanford the previous week. I don't know and didn't ask if he was disappointed that we would not be going to a game in Husky Stadium together or that my attending and taking three grandsons with me would allow him to stay home. I hope it was the former, since the grandsons have never seen UW beat Oregon, at least not that they can remember and thus as dedicated Huskyfans, they will always want to attend just in case the upset should ever happen....... and their dad should be there to experience such an event with his sons.

My oldest son just turned 50 and he and I have a history of attending HS football games as well as Husky games together. It really got going when I was working at Hanford in 1970,-71, and -72, living in Richland, and the boy and I would drive over early Saturday morning, eat a lunch out of the tailgate of my Datsun 510 wagon, and drive home in the evening after the game,...... which more often than not thanks to Sonny Sixkiller and crew was a win. That was great father-son bonding while enjoying pure fun even better than our salmon fishing trips to La push and Westport later after we moved back to Seattle. Those memories always keep me reminded of how much we have lost with the destruction of Husky Football at the hands of incompetent management under indifferent UW administration over the past ten years. Unless drastic change somehow falls on us like a surprise tsunami, Huskies may never feast on Crispy or Peking duck again.

Great story and that's the problem you have lost an entire generation of fans. These seniors were born in 1996 so they were 4 last time UW was good.

The legal drinking age is 21 so they were born in 1992 meaning they were 8 last time UW was good.

That story you just described is replaced with Seahawks games with their dad or worse yet Duck games. Kids growing up like winners and want to like the "cool" team. Seeing Oregon flags in Seattle was a thought that never even came up in the early 90's.

Instead it was Portland who had a lot of Husky fans. Now the roles have reversed you won't find much purple in Portland and you'll find a lot of green, yellow, black, silver, white ducks gear in Seattle.

Husky Football started the process of dying in August of 1993 and it finished the deal in June of 2003. It's been so sad to witness and endure.

This past decade which was unthinkable in our lifetimes is reality. Now the only unthinkable part is the Huskies returning to the James era. That feels like a far fetched pipe dream at this point.