The Glorious 2008 Huskies vs. ASU
The Seattle Times is honoring the 1991 co-national championship Washington team with constantly annoying weekly flashbacks to that forgettable season. Being the smart-ass that I am, I’m paying tribute to the Washington team that ran the table and posted a perfect 0-12 season in 2008.
On the first week of November in 2008, the Huskies marched confidently into Husky Stadium, hoping they would defend their home turf but knowing they probably wouldn’t.
Arizona State came to town as a pretty disheveled bunch themselves, but it didn’t matter – they would leave with a 39-19 victory in front of a throng of hundreds at the end of the game.
To the shock of anyone breathing, the Huskies led 19-16 in the third quarter. Washington blocked a punt, used some trick plays and came up with some key stops on third down, looking like a real football team for awhile.
Ah, but you could only hide the Dawgs’ badness for so long that season – it finally showed itself in the last 20 minutes of the game as the Sun Devils scored the last 23 points to win going away.
I remember shedding a tear that night because I was so overcome with the fact that Washington broke a school record by losing its 11th consecutive game, erasing the old mark set in 1968-69.
The Huskies also lost their fifth straight game by 20 points or more, proving that they weren’t just bad, they were really bad.
NEXT WEEK: Rick Neuheisel and the UCLA Bruins come to town. Will the Dawgs muster up a good effort against their former coach? Will they come to play like never before? Will they finally stop their losing streak?
What do you think? I wouldn’t be writing these wise-ass weekly tributes to the 2008 team if they’d won.
ON SUNDAY: Hope you’ll join me at the Clearwater Casino for the Seahawks-Cowboys game at 10 a.m. in a viewing party thrown by 710 ESPN Seattle. Drink specials galore. Trivia contests. Fun times. Fifty-cent hot dogs. Maybe even a Seahawks’ win.
Yeah 2008 sucked, well that what happens when you got the worst coach of all time. Thank god for Sark huh?
Not having an 0-12 season is another failure by the Cougs, I mean if your gonna suck for a year go all the way. Who remembers you for going 1-11? But go 0-12 and it makes the improvement even sweeter, by the way how many bowls have the Cougs been to since the Huskies 0-12 season since this year will mean 2 in the 3 years since then for the Dawgs, and looks to be a long stretch of them coming up!