Yesterday Ken and I attended the Husky game along with our guests, Esther and Walter Schoenfeld. It was a gorgeous day; hot and sunny, and the Huskies actually won beating Idaho 42-23 ending their 15 game losing streak! It was “Band Day” so high school bands from all over the state performed at half-time. What a panoply of color and sound!
One of the things I love about going to the Husky games in the Don James Center is that either over the great lunch prior to the game that Kaspar’s caters or over hot dogs at half-time, it is fun to catch up with friends that we haven’t seen for awhile. We had the opportunity to visit with Carl & Renee Behnke, Dottie Simpson, Mike Malone, Gary Waterman with new 2-1/2 month old grandson, Cole, Charlene Blethen, Kathleen & Mike Mitrovich, Bob & Micki Flowers, Al Clise, Doris Gaudette, Big Bill Gates and many others.
Once the game got underway, we were entertained by the cheerleaders in between reasonably good football in spite of a few glitches here and there. Quarterback, Jake Locker was actually connecting with receivers on his passes and we started racking up some yardage. Just in the first half alone, the Vandals must have had over 70 yards in penalties. It seemed that there was a flag on every play and many were personal fouls! Something new this year that I haven’t seen or heard before is that every time the opposing team came to a third down, the sounds of ferociously barking dogs was played over the loudspeakers. I think it worked because the Vandals only converted 4 out of 12 third downs.
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