The Seattle Times is running flashbacks from the 1991 Husky football season, commemorating the team that SHARED the top ranking in the country with Miami.
I put SHARED in capital letters because every Husky fan seems to think the Dawgs won the national championship outright in ’91 when, in fact, they didn’t; they SHARED it.
It’s the 20-year anniversary of that season, and the players from that team will be honored at the Oregon game on Nov. 5.
Every week the Times recalls what happened at this point in the season in 1991. This week the Times recapped that glorious 48-0 victory over Toledo in the second week of October when Mario Bailey caught three touchdown passes.
It’s all pretty cool stuff, and if I were a Husky fan, I’d be eating it up and asking for seconds because I live in the past and still worship the DawgFather even though he quit on my team.
But I’m not a Husky fan, I’m a Coug who interviewed Dwayne Johnson several years ago when he was in Seattle promoting his movie “Walking Tall.”
Johnson played for Miami in ’91 and went on to become “The Rock” of WWE fame before getting into acting. He swears that the Hurricanes would’ve beaten the Huskies if they’d held a national championship game back then, and I believe him. Why? I don’t know, I guess because he’s The Rock and I could smell what he was cookin’.
Since I’m a Coug and a jerk, I thought we should pay a different kind of tribute to the Huskies this season. It is, after all, the three-year anniversary of the Dawgs’ greatest season ever. Forget that ’91 season or the ’84 season when BYU edged the Huskies for the national title by clobbering Michigan in the Holiday Bowl.
Somehow the Times has forgotten the 2008 season, but I haven’t. Each week for the rest of the year, coinciding with the Times’ tribute to the ’91 team, I’m going to recall those wonderful games from the Dawgs’ perfect 0-12 season.
To bring you up to date, the Huskies opened that season by getting throttled 44-10 by Oregon in a Thursday night game. The following week, officials called a bogus unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Jake Locker, but I wanted to kiss the man in stripes because it caused the Huskies to lose 28-27 to BYU.
The next week, No. 3 Oklahoma came to town and annihilated the Huskies 55-14. Then in Week 4, the Huskies put up a surprisingly spirited effort for Tyrone Willingham but still lost 35-28 to Stanford.
In Week 5, Washington got back to its really-losing-badly ways as Arizona spanked them but good in the desert, 48-14.
This week is Week 6, and it was the highlight of the season for Washington fans because the Huskies didn’t lose; they had a bye.
Next week: The Beavers come to town for a nationally televised game on VERSUS in which the entire country can see for itself how sad Paint Dry Ty’s Huskies are.
If you can’t wait for that recap, click on this link to the Wikipedia page for the 2008 Washington Huskies’ season.
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Your best idea yet, can’t wait for Apple Cup!
We beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl that year and yes, that gave us a share of the national title. How many national titles (shared or not) have the Cougs won? How many Rose Bowls? That’s what I thought.
We haven’t won any Rose Bowls or national championships nor have we gone 0-12.
Dude, we have won a Rose Bowl.
Actually, Cougs won the 1916 Rose Bowl (defeated Brown University)…Wazzu’s played in four of ‘em in its history.
Rich, you’re right, thanks, forgot about that blanking of Brown. Go Cougs
“Oh we won’t give in
We’ll go living in the past”
How many 0-12 seasons have the Cougs had? That’s what I thought
@Brian
How many 0 and 12 seasons do the Cougs have? That’s what I thought.
And probably both schools have about the same number of ‘student-athletes’ having been arrested in the past decade or so. But I don’t know what good all this assorted mud slinging on this thread does either the Dawgs or the Cougs devotees, frankly. But the trump card for me (an admitted Husky alum, who also roots for the Cougs except in the Apple Cup?): WSU still is the only school amongst us two that still proudly lays claim to Ryan Leaf, the ultimate Loser, Fraud, & Palouse Poseur (IMHO). He’s from Montana, as am I. I’m even from the same small town there (Havre) where Leaf’s cousin & former Coug QB, Matt Kegel, hails from. But I hope to high heavens that any other similarities between myself & the Mr. R. Leaf end there. Has he ever settled up his bar tab at the Coug in Pullman, or is he still Big Timing the good folks back there……too? just axin’……….
Skippy’s Rose Bowl Bruins tonite: 27. Leaf-less Cougs: 21. Wish I could call it differently at this point, but I gotta call ‘em as I see’s em. Peace 2 all Dawgs & Cats.
Jealousy does not behoove you, Jim