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WSJ: Is Seattle Too Civilized to Win Big in College Football?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:12 pm
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Kenyon said he wasn't sure whether Washington could ascend to that level again, but even the longtime booster doesn't live and die with what happens on the field. Seattle isn't the South. "My nickname's not Bubba," he said.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579123842325324368.html?KEYWORDS=washington+football#articleTabs=article
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Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:14 pm to PurpleReignUW
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The most striking thing about a football game here at the University of Washington is what surrounds it.
Fans arrive not just by car and foot but by yacht. From the grandstands of Husky Stadium, they can see the rippling waters of Lake Washington and the crown of Mount Rainier. The school's acclaimed medical center sits across the street among spires of evergreens, part of an institution ranked among the nation's top 20 public schools. In the distance rises the skyline of Seattle, one of the world's most dynamic and forward-thinking cities.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:16 pm to PurpleReignUW
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:16 pm to PurpleReignUW
Is this kind of like the Falcon fans bragging about fortunate 500 companies?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:22 pm to PurpleReignUW
One of the comments...
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I live in Seattle and have for all but three of my 47 years. Here is the problem in a nutshell. It is not that Seattle is "too civilized." Hardly. Come up here and look. Dress casual is a huge STEP UP from what passes for attire here. You also will find more females with tattoos than you will find males with tattoos in probably any other city. Really. And, oh ya, we recently legalized pot, and the main newspaper in town, which pushed the initiative non-stop, seems to still be able to find nothing much else to write about then what the wonders and issues will be with "legal pot," which of course is not legal, regardless of what the state says, but that is an entirely different issue. As an aside, we are now also the U.S. city with the most gay couples.
No, as indicated, "civilized" is about the last thing Seattle is. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE, however, is an entirely different matter. Furthermore, I believe Seattle truly is the female capital of the world. Really. And I do not necessarily mean that negatively. Just simply as a fact. So you throw everything together and you get wimpy males amongst the freak-show Seattle has become, and you also get, in turn, no great community push for sporting excellence. Er, I mean male sporting excellence. The women's professional basketball team. which we kind of got stuck with after we got punked out of our men's professional team (Oklahoma City did not want the women's team, even though it was owned by the same entity as the Sonics) is held to high standards. Between puffs of pot and bike rides that is.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:32 pm to PurpleReignUW
I was in Seattle last week, but the fans of both UW/Seahawks were pretty damn cool, I thought. Pretty knowledgeable as well.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:33 pm to PurpleReignUW
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Most college title contenders toil in rural towns with few distractions and little else to holler about. They play in front of fans who are ambivalent about off-field shenanigans and in some cases, academics. Husky fans seem to see themselves differently—at least this time around. If they're going to win football titles, they're going to do it without compromising their dignity.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:38 pm to PurpleReignUW
Interesting article with some fun tidbits but ultimately kind of slanted and inaccurately paints a picture that it has to be one way or the other.
This part was funny and a fair point, though.
This part was funny and a fair point, though.
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We don't have that one crackpot eccentric CEO that puts his money where his mouth is," Washington booster Jim Kenyon said.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:47 pm to PurpleReignUW
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Fans arrive not just by car and foot but by yacht
I did that for the LSU game in 09. It was fuggin awesome.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:34 pm to PurpleReignUW
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Is Seattle Too Civilized to Win Big in College Football?
We won big before. That was a dumb article
The reason we haven't won for the past decade is directly due to the terrible hires made and nothing to do with anything mentioned in that article. I do feel like Sark has got us to the point where we should be top 20 every year from now on and with the possibility of some breaks getting us into the top 5-10.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:34 pm to PurpleReignUW
quote:If by "forward-thinking" he means accepting weird shite that would make 99% of the people around the world think you are nuts, then yeah, I can see that.
The most striking thing about a football game here at the University of Washington is what surrounds it.
Fans arrive not just by car and foot but by yacht. From the grandstands of Husky Stadium, they can see the rippling waters of Lake Washington and the crown of Mount Rainier. The school's acclaimed medical center sits across the street among spires of evergreens, part of an institution ranked among the nation's top 20 public schools. In the distance rises the skyline of Seattle, one of the world's most dynamic and forward-thinking cities.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:43 pm to PurpleReignUW
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Seattle isn't the South. "My nickname's not Bubba," he said.
Is Seattle still butthurt about Boeing opening up a facility in SC and continues to shift its investments into our area?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:50 pm to PurpleReignUW
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Is Seattle Too Civilized to Win Big in College Football?
Remember reading the same thing about Seattle in Jim Bouton's Ball 4. That's why Bud Selig move the team.
Now looking back at all of Seattle's pennants & world series over the past 50 years, they might have been right.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:59 pm to PurpleReignUW
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If they're going to win football titles, they're going to do it without compromising their dignity.
How quickly everyone forgets...
This post was edited on 10/10/13 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 10/10/13 at 7:05 pm to PurpleReignUW
I love Seattle, but that could have been an Onion article.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 7:23 pm to PurpleReignUW
This sounds like the same line USC fans use when they're losing. It's a load of BS. The fans come out when the team's winning.
By the author's logic, Starkville should be known as Title Town.
By the author's logic, Starkville should be known as Title Town.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 6:20 am to PurpleReignUW
Seems to me Seattle has a high opinion of itself.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 7:17 am to PurpleReignUW
The Husky fans I met in BR, last year, were pretty cool and knowledgable.
They were self-aware, when it comes to college athletics. Didn't have that homer/overvalued self image, and didn't sell themselves short. It was nice, as most fans of any sports program struggle with that.
They did make comments, unrelated to sports, that were very snobbish and uppity, though.
They were self-aware, when it comes to college athletics. Didn't have that homer/overvalued self image, and didn't sell themselves short. It was nice, as most fans of any sports program struggle with that.
They did make comments, unrelated to sports, that were very snobbish and uppity, though.
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