OFFICIAL Oregon vs. Indiana Game Thread

I could read this stuff all night. 😋

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All the love to Indiana for winning the game, and in the fashion they did. Thank you. I'm glad the title wasn't handed out after the Montana State and Okie State games the way so many wanted to do it. I hope this all continues to be worth it Phil. Tik...tik...
 
4/5 weirdos and a guy who looks like Helfrich is pretty perfect. The format for fans traveling to playoff games is a nightmare, especially if you are out west. So if you're a fan you're supposed to go to your home game, then Miami, then Atlanta, then back to Miami? Or some sort of combination like that plus a conference championship game? Then, if you're a fan of a team that's in it every year, you are expected to do something similar year in and year out? It also sucks for the players and coaches and eventually crowds as fanbases will start to have fatigue. Indiana fans won't keep up travel like that once the new shine wears off. Oh, and all of this is during the holidays when travel is mega expensive and then bleeds into a time of year where everyone wants to just get back to work and if you have a job you're gonna have to take a shit load of time off.
 
Okay, Dawg Pack, gather ‘round because this is either the greatest story of fandom or the dumbest road trip since Lewis & Clark forgot the GPS.

Left Seattle yesterday in my trusty Subaru Outback (because UW law says you can’t own anything else) with a cooler full of Rainiers, Dick’s Deluxes and enough beef jerky to survive a zombie apocalypse. Mission: cheer on Indiana, watch Oregon get humiliated, and bask in the glory of the Rose Bowl.

Fast forward 18 hours of caffeine and existential dread later… I roll into Pasadena, windows down, blasting Jimi Hendrix because Seattle pride never dies. I’m expecting a sea of crimson Hoosiers and a neon-green nightmare of Ducks. Instead? I see… nothing. No IU flags. No Duck fans. Just a bunch of confused retirees in khakis and a farmer’s market selling artisanal honey. I ask a guy where the tailgate is, and he says, “Tailgate for what?” BRO. FOR THE ROSE BOWL.

He looks at me like I just asked where the nearest volcano is.

Then it hits me: I’m at the Rose Bowl Flea Market. There’s a guy selling vintage Beanie Babies where I thought the IU marching band would be. I bought a purple platypus out of spite.

And the parking saga? Oh, buckle up. I paid $75 cash to a guy who said he was “official Rose Bowl parking.” Turns out his “lot” was a guy’s backyard with three goats and a broken trampoline. He gave me a handwritten receipt on a napkin that said “Parking + good vibes.” I think the goats are eating my bumper as we speak.

So now I’m wandering around Pasadena in a Husky hoodie, screaming “GO HOOSIERS!” at people buying antique lamps. Oregon fans? Haven’t seen a single one. Indiana fans? Nada. I’m starting to think the game is in Texas or something. If anyone knows where the actual Rose Bowl is, please DM me before I end up buying a mid-century credenza instead of watching football.

Anyway, if you see a guy double-fisting bratwursts and yelling about Pac-12 betrayal while petting a goat named Gary, that’s me. Honk if you hate the Ducks.

Woof woof and Hoosier Daddy!
Who you calling dumb?
 
4/5 weirdos and a guy who looks like Helfrich is pretty perfect. The format for fans traveling to playoff games is a nightmare, especially if you are out west. So if you're a fan you're supposed to go to your home game, then Miami, then Atlanta, then back to Miami? Or some sort of combination like that plus a conference championship game? Then, if you're a fan of a team that's in it every year, you are expected to do something similar year in and year out? It also sucks for the players and coaches and eventually crowds as fanbases will start to have fatigue. Indiana fans won't keep up travel like that once the new shine wears off. Oh, and all of this is during the holidays when travel is mega expensive and then bleeds into a time of year where everyone wants to just get back to work and if you have a job you're gonna have to take a shit load of time off.
There needs to be some accommodation for the Fiesta and Rose to have west coast teams playing in them (if available).

Oregon pretty well got fucked with travel - they’d have been fucked by Cig anyway but they should have had reasonable travel in at least one of their last two games.

No different than when B1G schools have to play back to back conference games on the road. The performance is shit.
 
“Oregon pretty well got fucked with travel”

I wonder if that will be this years excuse.

Ducks sure do a lot of crying for not even having tear ducts.

Last year they got worked in the local West Coast game (RB) and blamed it on having a week off.

I notice that didn’t bother Indiana this year. Hmm. Same exact game, off a bye, and traveled from central US, showed up and blasted Bama.

Maybe Oregon just whines and bitches about everything?

What happened to teams saying “we’ll play anyone anywhere”?
 
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