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Also might have been about the lowest point in WSU football history less USC taking a knee at our 2 yard line in 2008 up 51-0 before half time.

It is better then WSU fireball guy, better than WSU whatever girl, better than the kid wearing a WSU shirt doing the truffle shuffle at a Soccer match in Germany after a goal, better than shirtless sombrero guy at the 2015 Sun Bowl, better than the one armed WSU student pushing a flaming shopping car at police during the 1998 campus alcohol ban riot, better than the guy throwing his lawnmower on a bon fire at same riot.

Let me set the scene. WSU played 1 football game a year in Seattle at the NFL stadium from 2002-2013 before our stadium was remolded and to get people to the game that never drive 300 miles to Pullman. Sold out in 2002 as when were Rose Bowl bound that year. Skip to 2013 vs highly ranked Stanford during a monster storm with 50mph winds and sideways rain. A crowd of 30,000(a very generous guess, I was there for a while) was witnessing a 55-17 thrashing and then it happened. Some of you may have seen this, but I am sure many of you have not.

Without further ado, recorded live from Century Link field Sept 29th 2013 by ESPN ladies and gents I give your Popcorn Guy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttADsZDFvY
 

wsufan99 said:
Also might have been about the lowest point in WSU football history less USC taking a knee at our 2 yard line in 2008 up 51-0 before half time.

It is better then WSU fireball guy, better than WSU whatever girl, better than the kid wearing a WSU shirt doing the truffle shuffle at a Soccer match in Germany after a goal, better than shirtless sombrero guy at the 2015 Sun Bowl, better than the one armed WSU student pushing a flaming shopping car at police during the 1998 campus alcohol ban riot, better than the guy throwing his lawnmower on a bon fire at same riot.

Let me set the scene. WSU played 1 football game a year in Seattle at the NFL stadium from 2002-2013 before our stadium was remolded and to get people to the game that never drive 300 miles to Pullman. Sold out in 2002 as when were Rose Bowl bound that year. Skip to 2013 vs highly ranked Stanford during a monster storm with 50mph winds and sideways rain. A crowd of 30,000(a very generous guess, I was there for a while) was witnessing a 55-17 thrashing and then it happened. Some of you may have seen this, but I am sure many of you have not.

Without further ado, recorded live from Century Link field Sept 29th 2013 by ESPN ladies and gents I give your Popcorn Guy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttADsZDFvY
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What do you mean by remolded?
 


I was about to note that popcorn guy hasn't been mentioned yet but here we go.
 



dannygopher9100 said:
I was about to note that popcorn guy hasn't been mentioned yet but here we go.
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Wish I could find the kid the had an amputated arm pushing a flaming shopping cart down Cougar Way at the cops. I saw it happen live, man was he drunk.

I need to find the video of the guy jumping out of the stands at Albi Stadium in Spokane and tackling the Stanford RB on the way in for a TD in the early 70's. WSU played their home games in Spokane for like 30 years as the stadium was a pile of crap, they luckily it burned down.
 

wsufan99 said:
Wish I could find the kid the had an amputated arm pushing a flaming shopping cart down Cougar Way at the cops. I saw it happen live, man was he drunk.

I need to find the video of the guy jumping out of the stands at Albi Stadium in Spokane and tackling the Stanford RB on the way in for a TD in the early 70's. WSU played their home games in Spokane for like 30 years as the stadium was a pile of crap, they luckily it burned down.
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I found the video, go to the 23 minute mark, OMG I so forgot about this until now. Drunk guy ran off the sideline and tried to tackle the RB on the 5 yard line going in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUb0LkbW6vU
 

Bwahahahaha!!!
Civilian tackler had a shot, but got trucked!
 

wsufan99 said:
Wish I could find the kid the had an amputated arm pushing a flaming shopping cart down Cougar Way at the cops. I saw it happen live, man was he drunk.

I need to find the video of the guy jumping out of the stands at Albi Stadium in Spokane and tackling the Stanford RB on the way in for a TD in the early 70's. WSU played their home games in Spokane for like 30 years as the stadium was a pile of crap, they luckily it burned down.
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You know it's bad when you consider it to be good luck when something burns down.
 




Hey wsufan99 - I truly appreciate your transparency and somehow find comfort knowing that there is another program with almost as colorful of a past as our fine one. I think it is only fair to share some finer moments from our glorious past.

Where to begin? Well for on the field exploits, I might start here which is an article that rates the five worst loses in program history:

http://minnesota.sbnation.com/2010/9/12/1685055/top-five-worst-losses-gopher-

Personally I'd swap #1 and 2. You could debate #4 and #5 with about 50 other games.

Here's a fun fact regarding that 1983 stellar performance against Nebraska: After taking out eventual Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier in the first half, Tom Osborne put him back in the game well into the 4th quarter. Why? You might think because Osborne was trying to pad his numbers but you'd be wrong. It was because Rozier's backups were too tired to play anymore.

IMHO, I don't know how can exclude the 2003 game against Michigan in this Top 5? The following 2-1/2 minute video tells it all:

https://youtu.be/QW6lktAhXxc

And then there is doozy from 2005 against Wisconsin:

https://youtu.be/RfIA7lhsSKs

wsufan99 might recall that back in the 1980's there was a rule for a time where the offensive team could call a "noise" timeout when crowd became too much. This rule would seem like an advantageous thing for a team like the U especially with some of the hostile stadiums we would play in like the horseshoe (OSU) and The BIG House (Michigan). The only problem with this rule is when your own qb calls one during a home game. Yup, he did. Needless to say, the visiting fans (Iowa) exploded like Mount St. Helens and it never let up.

Speaking of Iowa... After a big win in a rivalry game and no matter which team you are cheering for, you can always appreciate it when the fans of the victors tears down the goal posts, unless of course they do it in your own stadium:

https://youtu.be/qnUoQZUAdvA

Thought you might enjoy a small snippet of some golden moments.
 

MNGoldenGophers1 said:
Hey wsufan99 - I truly appreciate your transparency and somehow find comfort knowing that there is another program with almost as colorful of a past as our fine one. I think it is only fair to share some finer moments from our glorious past.

Where to begin? Well for on the field exploits, I might start here which is an article that rates the five worst loses in program history:

http://minnesota.sbnation.com/2010/9/12/1685055/top-five-worst-losses-gopher-

Personally I'd swap #1 and 2. You could debate #4 and #5 with about 50 other games.

Here's a fun fact regarding that 1983 stellar performance against Nebraska: After taking out eventual Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier in the first half, Tom Osborne put him back in the game well into the 4th quarter. Why? You might think because Osborne was trying to pad his numbers but you'd be wrong. It was because Rozier's backups were too tired to play anymore.

IMHO, I don't know how can exclude the 2003 game against Michigan in this Top 5? The following 2-1/2 minute video tells it all:

https://youtu.be/QW6lktAhXxc

And then there is doozy from 2005 against Wisconsin:

https://youtu.be/RfIA7lhsSKs

wsufan99 might recall that back in the 1980's there was a rule for a time where the offensive team could call a "noise" timeout when crowd became too much. This rule would seem like an advantageous thing for a team like the U especially with some of the hostile stadiums we would play in like the horseshoe (OSU) and The BIG House (Michigan). The only problem with this rule is when your own qb calls one during a home game. Yup, he did. Needless to say, the visiting fans (Iowa) exploded like Mount St. Helens and it never let up.

Speaking of Iowa... After a big win in a rivalry game and no matter which team you are cheering for, you can always appreciate it when the fans of the victors tears down the goal posts, unless of course they do it in your own stadium:

https://youtu.be/qnUoQZUAdvA

Thought you might enjoy a small snippet of some golden moments.
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Those are great thanks.

I have a friend that is a Minnesota alumni and a UW Law school alum, so if we lose to you too going to be a long year. I already owe him a bottle of single malt for the pasting they gave us in the AC.

One thing I have noticed being one here is that Minnesota is, get me if I am wrong but it has that WSU vibe in a way. WSU is a family, our fans either went to school there or live near there. Unlike UW and its fake fans, we call them Jack-Huskies. WSU is a feeder school, you went there, your parents went there, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, you name it. It 300 miles from Seattle and farther to Portland where most of our Alums live. Getting there for 1 game is hard, let alone 7 like I did with season tickets. You are a Coug through the thick and the thin(usually more thin) and when things are good like they are now with football Cougnation is insane. No matter where you are in the world if you are wearing an WSU stuff, and see another, "Go Cougs" has to be shared in passing. It kid your not, I have friends who have gotten it all over the world, me in like 10 different states and Mexico.

Pullman is home to us, you only go back home when in school at Thanksgiving, X-mas, and 3 day weekend tossed in there and summer vacation. It is a 600 mile round trip and well Pullman is way more fun than home. 21,000 kids in a place so isolated there are not many places like it. When I see the Pullman next right sign on I-90 after you cross the Columbia River it still gives me goosebumps 20 years after graduation. You are still 160 miles away, but it is first sign that you see knowing your are getting close to your 2nd home.

The school plays a great video between the 1st and 2nd quarter of all the home games. It is updated each week with football highlights, but keeps the classic plays and the legends associated with the program from coaches, to broadcasters to players. It is set to the song, "We always find our way back home" and when the chorus starts the place just goes nuts. There are also 2 times in the video that crowd goes wild as well. The touchdown pass from Drew Bledose in the snowbowl 1992 AC and in 2007 we outraised UW for the right to have the top of the Space Needle painted crimson with our logo on it for Apple Cup week. The start was in filmed 1981 and that view coming over the hill of wheat looks the same today as it did then.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1_yAfpBGCk
 

Yes, we do have many similarities. Like you, we are the state's land grant university which is a marquee distinction. Although we are located in a major metropolitan area, we are the only D1 football program in the state and we are everyone's school.

As you noted, we too are a tight group of fans. Although most of us can look critically at the program and poke fun at it, we don't tolerate it from outsiders especially the skunks (WI) and hog-eyes (IA) to our east and south, respectively. We continually thank the higher deity for the prevailing NW winds!

We also have a tremendous amount of pride along with some of the best traditions in college football. Off the top of my head, here are some of them:

- The Minnesota Rouser which is the school's awesome fight song.
- The Minnesota Marching Band which is known as The Pride of Minnesota. They have many traditions with my favorite being the Swinging Gates formation. https://youtu.be/Tj-S2oFlVMw
- We play for the coolest trophy games including Paul Bunyan's Axe (WI), Floyd of Rosedale which is a pig (IA), and the Little Brown Jug (MI).
- SKI-U-MAH slogan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski-U-Mah_(slogan)
- Cheerleading. Yes, we invented it.
- And last but not least, our mascot Goldy Gopher!

I'm looking forward to learning more about your Cougars as it always makes for a better experience when you know your opponent. Thanks for sharing with us all these neat things about WSU.
 





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