Dawgs and Saban -- A Week of Goons and Clowns

Knowing the Ducks were flat out better, the Huskies tried to
  rip Oregon's helmets off so they would have to sit out for a play.

Washington gave Oregon their best shot, but only after the Ducks scored three touchdowns. And then that shot was cheap.

Like the Don James teams of old, the Huskies resorted to gooniness to make some kind of "tough" statement. Face masks, illegal blocks and head spearing accounted for much of their 102 yards  in penalties. Freshman linebacker Travis Feeney earned the "Goon Ball" for the game when he pulled Marcus Mariota out of bounds and threw him into the benches on the Husky sidelines. 

As he was making his way back onto the field, the normally calm and cool Mariota turned around and offered the Dawgs his newly reassessed opinion of them.

He said afterward:

"They had a couple of guys that were kind of standing over me," Mariota said of the incident that occurred after a run for no gain with Oregon leading 35-7. "I'm never the kind of guy that if you disrespect me or if you disrespect my teammates, I'm not going to just let that kind of go. There's situations where you can keep your head and there's situations where you're going to say something. And I felt that at that point in time, they were getting a little chippy. I felt I needed to say something. That's usually not in my character."

What can we say, Marcus? We could've told you that the Huskies have a way of pricking at your dark side.  But like all of us Duck players and fans before, you just have to discover it for yourself.


This Husky tackles a big armload of air
as DAT sprints 16 yards to a first quarter TD.

Mariota and the rest of the team did infinitely better than so many Oregon teams of an earlier generation of rising above the Dawg's sh*t and playing good football. Talk to them at their sideline?

Amazing. 240-pound Colt Lyerla skies for this TD catch.

 No. Talk to them from their endzone.

The Ducks couldn't have picked a better opponent to play their most complete game yet. Even columnist John Canzano, who earlier complained that the Ducks can't play a complete half or a play well on both sides of the ball, now complains that the Ducks are boring as they steamroll over their opponents. Ain't no pleasin' some people.

Same song, second verse:
"Price throws to the side and INTERCEPTED, INTERCEPTED.
Avery Patterson has intercepted . . . . And Avery Patterson
is gonna SCORE! Avery Patterson is gonna SCORE!
20...10...TOUCHDOWN, AVERY PATTERSON!!!!"

Jerry Brewer of the Seattle Times began his article, Ducks Serve Up More Humiliation, like this:

The little girl, dressed in Oregon colors, held up a sign and scowled.

It read: "I wasn't born the last time UW beat Oregon."

Yes, it has gotten that bad. Daddy's little girl is now the Dawgs' little devil.

The Ducks don't just refer to their youth by age anymore. They introduce them according to how many Husky beatdowns they've experienced.

All children age 8 and under born with a silver swoosh in their mouths don't remember when this was a competitive rivalry, let alone that the Huskies used to dominate the matchup. Every year, you keep waiting for the momentum to shift, and every year, Oregon grinds a foot into Washington's throat.

 As Whintey Houston sang, "I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way."

I encourage everyone to sit down with their kids this week and remind them of the "Dark Days of the Purple Haze" when children hid, mothers trembled, and fathers cried. TEACH THEM WELL about how far we've come to provide them a Husky-free Northwest. Let them not take for granted their freedom from Dawg goonery and purple-shirted oppression.
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Shhh, Shhh. Quiet everybody. Nick Saban has some wonderful words of wisdom he wants to share with us!!!

What the hell is the "Amazin' Saban" flappin' his yap about this time? He said last week:
"The way people are going no-huddle right now, that at some point in time we should look at how fast we allow the game to go in terms of player safety. The team gets into formation and you can't substitute defensive players. You go on a 14-, 16-, 18-play drive and they're snapping the ball as fast as you can go, and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can't get lined up, and that's when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt when they're not ready to play."

Nick Saban, you're so wise and
all-knowing, you should wear a
big pointy hat and live in Italy.

This election year is a bad time for the Alabama coach to tell us of his "concern for player safety" that a no-huddle offense OBVIOUSLY threatens. We the people on both sides of the political fence have all gotten our fill of disengenous, alterior-motived speeches and sound bites lately that we can smell his BS a mile away.

I was panning Canzano earlier for never talking too nice about the Ducks. But in this linked story, Nick Saban's transparent attack on the Oregon Ducks is laughable, he shows that the Ducks are his meat. And he doesn't let anyone like Saban get away with talking this crap. Excellent read.

Currently 'Bama is ranked #1, Oregon is #2. Let those numbers stand. You know the whole nation wants this matchup to see if Saban's warning rings true and speed really kills. Or will it merely humiliate, which is what Saban is REALLY worried about.
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No Duck game this Saturday. Ducks down in Tempe Thursday after next.

You still got that Whitney Houston song in your head, don't you? Sorry about that. Maybe this will help:



--KB