GO COUGARS!!!!!!!!
So, remember how I have been to a few Husky football games with John this year...I have to confess, I was spying on the team to form my opinion on our Apple Cup chances. So, this weekend was the big game...and we headed out to tailgate with friends for a few hours before the game. Then it was time to commence the football. After watching the Huskies play sloppy all year, I was feeling pretty confident for my Cougs...well, that was until the Huskies ran back the first kickoff for a touchdown, and quickly followed that up with a field goal.
However, you can't count the Cougars out. At the end of the first half, we were up 21-20. We trailed in the 3rd quarter, then tied it up 35-35. And then...like in a dream, I watched a miracle unfold.
With less than a minute left in the game, the Cougs are in field goal range. It's 3rd down, they have the chance to kick the field goal and win the game. They call a time out...the Huskies call a time out. Both teams return to the field. And then......
The pass to end all passes. Instead of going for the 3 point win, the Cougs lob a perfect pass to an open receiver who ran that happy football right into the end zone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sounds that came out of me...I don't even make those sounds during sex people!!!
I was in the stands, surrounded on almost all sides by Husky fans- Including my husband- and I jumped up and down and up and down and screamed and squealed and peed myself as I watched the Cougs beat the SNOT out of the Huskies in Husky Stadium on the 100th Anniversary of the Apple Cup game.
This is my football dream come true...
It so more than makes up for the 2003 Apple Cup where I was at the same stadium, at the same tailgate, drunk as a skunk, running through the parking lot telling anyone and everyone how the "Huskies Suck" and "The Cougs are going to Beat Your ASS!!" (all said with a very pronounced slur)...and then in the last minute of the game, the Huskies came from behind to win. I ate crow the whole rest of the night.
This so so so made up for that.
GO COUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love these photos and love your description of the game.
sounds like a blast!
:)
Posted by: melissa deakin | Nov 27, 2007 12:23:34 PM
Redemption every year for us cougs when we take a win! Shame on your husband, what's wrong with him? Gross hat. (:)tee hee). I love that shirt your friend is wearing "Future Coug". That picture of the lake is magical. I think we may know some of the same peeps... hmm...
Posted by: Nicole | Nov 27, 2007 12:56:00 PM
Gorgeous photos! The colors are amazing!
tammy t
Posted by: tammy t | Nov 27, 2007 1:45:59 PM
My husband went to WSU. Go Cougs! Congrats on the win... :)
Posted by: Lea | Nov 27, 2007 2:47:10 PM
I haven't commented in ages and I can't believe the first post I'm delurking to comment on is one about football (although I have been slowly becoming a fan of the sport as of late) but I have to say these are the greatest football game pics I've ever seen. You captured it perfectly. And you look gorgeous as always. Can't wait to see how you scrap these. :)
Hope you had a great turkey day! :)
Posted by: Shawn | Nov 27, 2007 3:03:13 PM
i am dying laughing at the "sex noises" part. dying.
and the photos are amazing (of course)!
Posted by: Stephanie Howell | Nov 27, 2007 4:22:49 PM
Thanks for showing the world our beautiful stadium. Nice win. I've seen the most incredibly wild Apple cups in the past. They always come down to some big plays....Congrats on getting the bragging rights this year- tj
Posted by: Terri | Nov 27, 2007 4:54:24 PM
LOVE the play by play!!! :) And the sex reference? Sweet Georgia Brown I lost it! lol hehe
Glad you had a good time, girl!
Posted by: Stephanie Jedlicka | Nov 27, 2007 5:18:36 PM
hmm what yummy drinks are in those red cups ;) :)
Posted by: jenn shurkus | Nov 27, 2007 5:33:51 PM
your pictures are beautiful, but they make me realize how much i miss the nw.
Posted by: june g | Nov 28, 2007 3:13:25 AM
Great photos Jen! I wish that I lived close enough to take some digi lessons from you. I still "don't get it".
Hugs and TFS
Julie
Posted by: Julie Phillips | Nov 28, 2007 7:37:08 AM
ahhhhh, the thrill of victory!!!
loved the storytelling and photos....the future coug one is priceless!
Posted by: tania | Nov 28, 2007 11:42:22 AM
big game...Huge.
those pictures are making me miss my hometown...bad.
adore the shots.
you are one talented chica!
Posted by: miChelle rAmirez | Nov 28, 2007 2:56:43 PM
Not much into football anymore... prolly since the hubs isn't into it that much... but i loved going to my college games. I cheered in highschool so I was at EVERY game and LOVED It! Looks like ya'll had a blast! Stellar pics too.
xoxo
Posted by: Amber Ulmer | Nov 29, 2007 6:35:51 AM
Gorgeous photos! Throughout your blog.
Posted by: Bari | Nov 30, 2007 10:12:01 PM
These are such great photos. Can I ask what camera and lenses you use regularly? Sorry if you've been asked that a million times. :)
Posted by: Renee Richins | Dec 3, 2007 7:44:06 AM
Oh! I went to a Cougar game last week! Wrong cougars though. I got all excited when I saw your title. :)
Posted by: Jill | Dec 3, 2007 8:22:12 PM
Thanks so much for letting Shawn incorporate your designs in my site! I love them, you are so talented.......but had I known ahead of time that you were a huskie & cougar fan.....I may have had to boycott them. :)
Major Duck fan here. (poor things)
Posted by: kim in Camas - ScrapToMyLu | Dec 4, 2007 12:16:27 PM