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  1. 5 hours ago, miguelito said:

    Awesome videos.  I've been at games like that - last second FG attempt - and the first people to react are the ones behind the end zone with the best view if the kick is off line.  Then the joy spreads around the bend as the refs signal the call.  Goosebumps. 

    Our seats are at the other end of the stadium (he was kicking directly into the student section) - I immediately lost the ball in the crowd when it was kicked and watched the students' reaction to see what had happened. Unreal. The videos capture the complete change from deafeningly loud to almost dead silence - then an explosion.

    UW's last kicker barely missed a similar kick to win the game in Eugene a few years ago as a freshman; we Iost in OT. He redeemed himself last year in Eugene as a senior with the game winning kick. Not that I want the UO guy to do that to us, just that these things are possible.

    Epic game, and if we make the CCG I hope the Ducks aren't there. That is a solid, tough team.

    Finally, following the game we walked through campus and it was great to see the students really into it again. It reminded me of my days there and I'm sure there was a hell of a lot of fun being had last night. I love CFB.

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  2. Interesting topic. Out here in the PNW we would use "Texas" and everyone would know what it meant (in context of course). So: "Did you see the Texas - Texas A&M game? They've gotta fire Jimbo after that shitshow." (As college football fans, "A&M" would also get that point across; with our group "aggy" is understood.)

    Washington is nearly always "UDub." More formally, Washington works; on CVs, etc. "University of Washington". For other system schools it's UDub-Tacoma, etc.  WSU is Wazzu. (One of their former presidents tried to put a stop to that, saying it wasn't dignified; one of the few things to bring Huskies and Cougs together was laughing him out of the state.) UC-Berkeley is Cal. I don't know what the grads there use, but here Arizona is usually "Zona", sometimes UA.

    The old Big-8 was messed up. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me CU, NU, MU, KU, OU.

    Also interesting was the comment on Wisconsin - I've always just said "Wisconsin" but with a system that size, UW-Madison makes sense.

    I suppose most places other than P12 or B12 country, OSU = Ohio State; here OSU means Oregon State and the others are "Ohio State" and "Oklahoma State". I'd imagine it works the same way down there for OSU = Oklahoma State. 

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  3. 10 hours ago, wood said:

    I think the Euros have been saying it's a 6am start for them. I forgot Vegas is Pacific time, so 7pm is actually 3am in Europe and 10pm is actually 6am in Europe. They don't love the 6am start but they're notoriously spoiled about start times. They do generally like it better than very late at night though.

    10pm Pacific = 6am UK, Ireland, Portugal; 7am nearly all the rest of Europe, 8am far eastern Europe, South Africa.

    (source: me, about an hour from Portimão)

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  4. 1 hour ago, strangulation! said:

    The Ukraine thread goes strong at almost 1500 pages - 95% news, facts and actual discussion. 

    Best thread on the site. Would buy a beer for pretty much any poster in it.

    47 minutes ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

    Sounds like a piece of cake. Regime change in 4 letter countries starting with an I always goes swimmingly.

     

     

    Iowa? Take that shit to the realignment thread.

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  5. 1 hour ago, ryskey said:

    The 8-year old in me is still amused by transposing syllables, turning his name into Butt Dickus.

    RIP

    Centuwion! Does it amuse you... when I say... the words... Butt... Dickus?

     

    RIP to an an absolute legend.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    I was at that game.  We dominated from beginning to end. So glad we don’t play the dawgs this year.

    Yeah, the ASU loss was a fluke, but UCLA beat our asses. UW looks a bit better so far this season. What the Dawgs did to Michigan State today should be illegal - it was complete domination. Of course nobody saw it since it was streaming on freaking Peacock. Welcome to our new home.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

    Not a great slate of games, but the PAC showing out nevertheless.  Just back from the RB.  Bruins had their highest scoring qtr ever in the first at 35 pts.  It was over early.  My fear is once the league play starts, cannibalism will take over.  Such a great league in its last hurrah.

    This just makes me sad. 

    Cannibalism will take over - there's no one or two teams clearly better than the rest - but the P12 may be the best conference top to bottom this year. It's just a damn shame what's happened to what was always an enjoyable and sometimes a great conference to watch.

    I'm just hoping UCLA will be UW's last conference loss.

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  8. 8 hours ago, NoName said:

    I AM NOT A TRAITOR, YOU ARE A TRAITOR FOR CALLING ME A TRAITOR

    side note, but i thought it was pretty widely reported he was a dual or tri citizen between US/Canada/South America? born in SA, applied to be a Canadian citizen, go it, then got a student visa to the US, then a green card, then applied for US citizenship?

    dude may have only one passport, but he had at least 2 others before. it's a super weird thing to say and absolutely a lie by omission.

     

    Denaturalize. Deport.

    (Defenestrate - that can be left up to our Ukrainian friends should they so desire.)

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