Apple Cup Anyone?

This is Officer Lee Groinman, let’s see, in the past month I’ve been merely bamboozled, too annoyed, then too disturbed, and back again.

Disgusted was in there somewhere too…

Wonder how depressed would work? Husky football, it runs the gamut, and like history, it repeats itself.

Hate it when that happens, but what ya’ gonna’ do about it, root for the ducks, the cougs? Become a soccer fan? Wait for the N.B.A. to return? Head on down to Alaskan Airlines at Hec Ed for some hoops? Basketball is fine I suppose, but when you break it all down, basketball is still just a game…Or maybe just head on over to the Clink and paint your hair blue, or better yet green.

I think not…

So for today, I’m gonna be Washington’s Most Thankful Cop…

I’m thankful for teams like Hawaii, California, Utah, Colorado, err Codorado for all you sportscasters out there, and Arizona, and of course, hats off to Eastern Washington, my alma mater for not screwing up our entire season and winning that all important first game of the year.

All these fine teams made us Bowl eligible, why both the Eastern and California games came down to the last play of the game. UW stuck it to ‘em in both cases, POW! Pac 12 championship stuff there fellas!

Bring on the trophy boys!

Why if either of those all-important last play of the game plays against Eastern and Cal had gone the other way, why we’d be looking at the Apple Cup at a neutral site to become Bowl eligible, and get this; prolly Sun Bowl eligible…

How’s that fit in your pipe?

Now don’t get me wrong here folks. I’m not so thankful that the Dawgs tanked it again last week against the Oregon State Beaver. No sir! Now remember fellas, my wife is an Oregon State Beaver. I’m just thankful that Beaver week is in the rear view mirror. What is that, 7 losses in the past 8 years to the Beav?

These Dawgs just have no mercy folks, maybe a sick sense of humor, but certainly no mercy. Why when Gloria and I got married, back in ’91 such a thing would be laughable, losing 7 of 8 to the Beavers? It would have been thought to be impossible. You couldn’t even find odds for such poppy-cock, nope. Why the Beaver was on the brink of extinction…

The Beaver marching band was passing the hat, before, after, and during the half-time shows…

And we’re a broken up two-point conversion from being 0-8 against the Beaver.

THE BEAV!

This is NOT NORMAL! This IS NOT RIGHT!

What have we become?

And I married a Beaver, what was I thinkin’?

Yup, sure am thankful that Beaver week is over, lost me both bets, one to Reno, one to the wife Gloria, now I’m cookin’ Thanksgiving dinner…never mess with the cook, she’ll learn…

Thanks guys, appreciate your efforts…

And I hadn’t lost a bet all year, the beavers…

I did agree with giving the start to Nick Montana, thought it was the right thing to do, not sure if Keith Price would have made much of a difference. This team still has a terrible time of gettin’ out of its own way. A turn over by the beav, in the red-zone, followed by another turn over on the very next play, a 99 yard drive, a missed chip-shot, another dropped ball. Prosperity be damned, no mistake left unpunished, no mistake left behind…

Coach Dick Baird always calls for this team to block a punt for a touchdown…

This team ain’t blockin’ no punts for touchdowns…

But hey! How about that fancy kickin’ by Oregon’s Alejandro Maldonado? And to think he would have been a Dawg! Wouldn’t Bob Rondeau love that name? We’d probably just call him Mal for short…Small of me?

Yup, I’d like to see Bishop Sankey run for about four scores too. Real small…

Well, we’ve got lofty win number six in our back pocket, we’re Bowl eligible. We should be thankful. Thankful that the Apple Cup has no bearin’ on that Bowl game, that and the cougs can’t go anywhere anyway.

Well with this Husky bunch…

That’s what bothers me.

Cougs have nothing to lose and Wulff is fighting for his job. The Husky boys are not in their own digs and just might get a little pouty about it…What with the four mile drive and all…

I’m thankful I bought these Apple Cup tickets back in July, otherwise a coug might be sitting in my seats…That don’t set right.

So this is my “Bowl Game”. Burned most my vacation days on the home games, oh the Vegas Bowl might be doable, but not the Sun Bowl. Been there done that, worst game I’ve seen in my life, the ’95 Sun Bowl. Thirty-five degrees with a wind to match, for three days, no thanks…

Oh, but it was indeed sunny…

I don’t think the UW team would find El Paso all that appetizing either, but you can hardly tell ‘em that. They have to learn that themselves.

Some folks don’t want to know, and then ya’ can’t tell ‘em…

Be better off to just go ahead and suck it up and pound the cougs but…

But I do question the backbone of this team. It’s the end of November. Can you tell me who the leaders are? Who are the enforcers? Who kicks that butt?

Hey Sark, how about you bring out a 40 ounce can of Whoop-Ass? Stoke the fellas mo-joe just a notch. Let ‘em know what a pleasure El Paso can be, come Christmas.

Do it for me, will ya’?

This Apple Cup oughta be an entertaining game, can anybody stop anybody? Looks like the weather maybe a factor, ya’ think? Some turn overs. A rainy night in Seattle? In November? Ya’ kidding me?

Good thing that back in July I opted for those nose bleed seats under cover, momma didn’t raise no fool…

I  gotta tell ya’ this, just can’t get my noggin’ around the Dawgs dropping this Apple Cup to the cougs, it just does not compute, it breaches all forms of normalcy, it just ain’t happennin’…Nadda, no chance…When monkeys play the tuba.

Keith Price plays like he thinks it’s the return of Codorado , the magic returns in the Clink, balls are not dropped as Kasen Williams puts on an early high-jumping clinic. Austin Seferian-Jenkins gets reunited with the end zone. Or maybe Chris Polk will just run the UW to the win? The classic no-brainer, and it’s all good, but hey…

With this bunch? Never such a thing as a ‘no-brainer’…

I hear the recruits love it…

Hey, early playin’ time, a new Stadium, a great school, with a great city and campus.

Now if that don’t beat all…

YOU HEAR ME!

GO DAWGS!

GRUMBLINGS; Yeah I’m thankful I had that inner ear surgery back in July. Ya’ hear me? Pun intended, yup, bionic hearin’, that’s the ticket. And they found out I had that off-the-charts blood pressure. Beyond Stage two-hypertension, I would have never known. Without these meds, this team would have killed me…Lose this Apple Cup, and they still might…

If ya’ haven’t checked your blood-pressure yet, do it today Bucko, before that second piece of pie. Freddie Meyers has those blood-pressure machines right out in front of the pharmacy, doesn’t cost anything...no pain fearless man…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!

The Featured Dawgs of the Week! A TRIPLE HEADER!

I suspect all three of these fine specimens to be bona-fide chick magnets…

Gotta go with BELLA, I’m kinda’ partial to the name. BELLA is a babe, she got the best of some chickens one dark and lonely night, but what’s a mal to do? She’ll keep the chickens and those pesky ducks out of the yard. BUCKO, blue-eyed BUCKO. He should go home with you just for that name alone, no blood-pressure problems either with this BUCKO, a stand- up comic with energy to spare, comes complete with the clown face, no charge. Never a dull moment with BUCKO, unless its nap time, looks like he just did ‘Bumbershoot’. Then we’ve got THOR. THOR is a sad case, but it happens, his human recently passed on and THOR is left alone, awesome dawg. These fine dawgs would be forever thankful to share your digs, and any left-over turkey or pie. No table-top or counter-top cruisers, well maybe just once in a while.

 

BELLA.                                           BUCKO.                                         THOR.

All three are great specimens. Fostering is available as well. Fostering is when an interested party may take one of these fine dawgs home and care for it until it finds it’s forever home, or however long you want, no obligation, you just have a loaner dawg so to speak…Kinda’ like a test drive with options...

Bella, Bucko, and Thor, as well as their pals can be seen at www.wamal.com Ready for adoption, or a foster home now!