I was 12 when we won the Rose Bowl. Peak of Husky football in my lifetime. FMFYFE.
me too, i also grew up in the Portland media market and I think the duck rise galvanized my UW identity. also the WSU Vancouver campus helped me think I was better than everyone I lived around.
Vancouver is so fucked
I was born and raised in Vancouver too. This post couldn't be more true.
The one thing I would add is wondering as a kid, "why don't the people on teevee ever talk about vancouver/washington?". I got a case of the civic pride (not the 75k kind) very early in life.
It's not tough to build up pride when portland's JV media won't shut up about gresham and canon beach.
I remember getting to UW and being shocked that the local news was actually about the place where I lived.