When I told my son in Mill creek that I'd decided not to come over for the Oregon game, he seemed disappointed since I'd indicated to him after the BSU game that I planned on attending. He'd forgotten that I'd conditioned my attending the Oregon game on the Huskies beating Stanford the previous week. I don't know and didn't ask if he was disappointed that we would not be going to a game in Husky Stadium together or that my attending and taking three grandsons with me would allow him to stay home. I hope it was the former, since the grandsons have never seen UW beat Oregon, at least not that they can remember and thus as dedicated Huskyfans, they will always want to attend just in case the upset should ever happen....... and their dad should be there to experience such an event with his sons.
My oldest son just turned 50 and he and I have a history of attending HS football games as well as Husky games together. It really got going when I was working at Hanford in 1970,-71, and -72, living in Richland, and the boy and I would drive over early Saturday morning, eat a lunch out of the tailgate of my Datsun 510 wagon, and drive home in the evening after the game,...... which more often than not thanks to Sonny Sixkiller and crew was a win. That was great father-son bonding while enjoying pure fun even better than our salmon fishing trips to La push and Westport later after we moved back to Seattle. Those memories always keep me reminded of how much we have lost with the destruction of Husky Football at the hands of incompetent management under indifferent UW administration over the past ten years. Unless drastic change somehow falls on us like a surprise tsunami, Huskies may never feast on Crispy or Peking duck again.
