San Antonio Time; Time to Boogie, Alamo Style With Boots…

This is Officer Lee Groinman. That’s Right Washington’s Most Excitable Cop…

A happy one too! Cal just lost to Texas in the Holiday Bowl and I’ve got the night off…Many a folk would use that tired old logic of rooting for the Pac 10, err Pac 12 team. I didn’t drink into that logic years ago, and still haven’t tasted that flavor of Kool-Aid. Cal can just go lick my socks and Coach Tedford can go kiss slugs, ex duck remember? We whoop Cal and Tedford on the field, then he steals our recruits like a two-bit thief in the night. Take that, Cal…

So the Bowl Season is off to a good start. Nice to see Brendon Bigelow not do much. As we all know, Bigelow spurned our UW Dawgs, which just happened to win last year’s Holiday Bowl. You see that one Brendon?

Of course last year the losers of the Holiday Bowl were the Nebraska Corn Huskers, a team which clearly just wanted to show up in San Diego in time to hand the Bowl trophy over to Washington.

The homesickness for Lincoln Nebraska in late December is never easy to overcome…Or so I’ve been told on the message boards…

Well Texas saw fit to leave their home of Austin and Leave Cal as the new losers of the Holiday Bowl. Maybe it was Cal this year that was disappointed to be in San Diego, could be, but I can’t imagine missing Berzekley California, at any time of the year, makes Nebraska look like home.

But I am happy to see Bigelow playing after his two knee surgeries; sometimes poetic justice is just so poetic. There’ll be more to come too. Speakin’ of knee surgeries, really excited for Deontae Cooper’s return, can next year come soon enough?

A buddy of mine told me that Cooper advised Chris Polk to pack it in for the NFL. Deontae wants Chris to leave the UW as the starting running back, not some back-up…

The Bowl Season, a break in the lull of the recruiting season. I now become a fan of teams like Oklahoma State, and who the hell is playin’ Ucla? Illinois? I better go look that one up…I really just can’t get into that “root for the Pac crap”. Now Jim Mora is the new bad guy on the block, he must have read Tedford’s book…

Yeah well ya’ know a Pac 12 win makes us look better to those East coast voters when it comes to rankings and such, which is what some say…

Until it comes time to do the actual voting, the Heisman trophy, or some team in LA the only exception…

Screw the East Coast voters I say! I’d rather see Jim Mora take a shot in the chops while coach Demetrice Martin ‘Meat’ plays with his soft and pliable cushion ‘D’. My Lord, that ain’t a pretty picture…

So now we got the Alamo Bowl. A Texas treat. I’d sure like to trade this one for that ’95 Sun Bowl. The mere thought of that ’95 Sun Bowl can give me ice-butt-cakes, and we lost too. My buddy went home with a Senorita Pole-Dancer; he went unheard of for two days. We found him later out in the mountain desert chopping firewood and pumpin’ well-water…

As Archie Bunker once said, “Those Were the Days!!”

But how I do digress…

Speakin’ of getting’ kicked in the chops, seems we took one with the Puyallup Kid. I was raised in the Puyallup Valley. As kids, we had a term we used for other kids we picked on and abused, and we were pretty good at it too, as I recall, in this, the special Holiday Season…The term?

“Puey-Allup Kid”.

Good luck guy. I worked construction for a while. Here’s another term for ya’ Scott. Measure twice, cut once…

More recruiting news to follow, it’s the time of the season…

I’ve got some advice to players who may live in Tacoma or Everett. I too once had opportunities to leave the area, to stretch my legs so to speak, to taste those ‘greener pastures’.

And I did…

Those ‘greener pastures’ were laced with cow poop, some call it ‘manure’ others call it “cow sleet.” The stuff all tastes the same, results likewise…

Ya’ know, the good thing about livin’ in Tacoma, Orting or Ellensburg, you can go to the UW, be away from home, and still go home again, and only if you want to, and when you want to…

Priceless…

Unless you live in LA…

A bit Off-Topic here, but I see where Mike Leach, the newly appointed WSU Cougar Pirate, or Coach as it is, has decided not to retain wide receiver coach Mike Levenseller. I’ve known Coach ‘Levy’ Levenseller for years, since our high school days when we had to kick his butt as a matter of routine.

 I’ll say this. May this be the first of the ‘Pirate’s’ many mistakes…Let the fun begin…

Alamo Bowl anyone?

Much has been made about our opponent, the Baylor Bears and their Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin the third, or “RG3”. He looks good in a suit too. This ‘RG3’ is surely a ‘God, is he a ‘Sir’ yet? And the Husky defense sucks, so this is just an audition for “RG3’s” NFL’s draft status…

Or so goes our Northwest and National media’s thinkin’, outside of some guy on the Kitsap Peninsula, and yes, I lived there once too…

Now a media folk or two have even gone so far as to mention that Baylor’s defense is worse than the UW’s, mercy sakes! Never let the facts get in the way of a good story line!

The fact is, Alameda Ta’amu hasn’t felt better all year, remember the broken bone in his hand, the stinkin’ cast, the naggin’ injuries, and now the new, and the old stand-by doubters?

The Alamo Bowl, Ta’amu’s big payday… RG3 and Baylor? Meet Ta’amu and friends…

How ‘bout Quinton Richardson just shadows RG3? No pass coverage…

And oh by the way, we have an offense too, just so you’ll know…

Look for Alameda Ta’amu to give a repeat performance of his game in last year’s Holiday bowl. He has to, it’s his swan song, his last college game, and his big pay day…Baylor likes to roll the dice on offense, Ta’amu must be the dealer…

Washington will pull out the stops too, a half-back pass with a couple of fourth down conversions. Maybe a fake punt. This one will be fun.

Chris Polk goes for 200 yards, and two scores with dreams of the all-time UW rushing record dancing in his head...Polk keeps RG3 on the bench. Erik Folk seals the deal and ruins the Heisman ‘coming out party’. And yup, yesterday at Freddie’s? I bought the UW “Alamo Bowl” tee-shirt. A call to my bookie in Reno to follow…

“GO DAWGS!!”

A barn-burner of a game, of epic proportions, perfect for kids of all ages, from Puyallup, and Lakewood…All of Pierce County? And all points in-between, includin’ Everett.

See ya’ later Keivarae Russell. I now may need a soda or two. Keivarae just made his announcement while I was in the John, never a good omen…sick already. Nice timing. The Dawgs in San Antonio could give a rip, them and billions of Chinese…

Lord Have Mercy…I think hear Papa Murphy’s Pizza callin’. The Cowboy Special I presume…

GRUMBLINGS: Well now, some coaching turnover at the other UW. Wisconsin. Turn around is fair play in both Love and Football, no? Gotta love recruiting, or not…Hang on folks, miles to go before we sleep. Yup, I’d take Walker Williams any day. Let’s hope he still choses the right UW…A buddy of mine said he has a Washington Letter Of Intent in his nightstand…Yup, it just dawned on me. Here it is, another Bowl game on my day off. In the past 13 months the Dawgs have had three night games on my day off, Thursday night specials if you will. Groinman here is undefeated on these Thursday night specials when wearing a new tee. Better double down that bet. Life is good. Be it so…

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