We're better because we have less fans!
For those of you who haven't already checked out Brandon Hansen's humorous Easterner column on the Montana Grizzlies and their fans, I strongly suggest doing so.
Hansen likes to poke at UM's obsessive fans and seems to believe the Eastern side of Washington is so much better than Montana. Does he realize Eastern Washington is Montana without any of the scenery? I've made the drive from Seattle to Missoula countless times and the 500 miles between those two great cities is comparable to Mars. Well, everything outside of Couer d'Alene.
Here's some of Hansen's commentary:
Hansen likes to poke at UM's obsessive fans and seems to believe the Eastern side of Washington is so much better than Montana. Does he realize Eastern Washington is Montana without any of the scenery? I've made the drive from Seattle to Missoula countless times and the 500 miles between those two great cities is comparable to Mars. Well, everything outside of Couer d'Alene.
Here's some of Hansen's commentary:
Griz fans will roll out of their Victorian-style single-wide trailers on Saturday and rumble over to their stadium in their four-miles-to-the-gallon Ford F-350 Jumbo Cab (their pride has to sit somewhere) and walk up to the ticket office at the stadium just before the game.Well written and well-played. I'm from Seattle so I could wake up and root for my homestate team, but I won't. No, the Packers are much better. Yeah, with satellite TV and NFL Sunday Ticket I can pretty much root for anyone. But NFL Sunday Ticket won't ever bring you the atmosphere of a great gameday. That's what we have in Missoula. It's something you'll never have in Cheney.
"Milford Tilly, age 40, residing with mom, currently the assistant manager of Taco Bell, here is your season ticket."
Unfortunately for Tilly, his beloved Griz are playing the Eags: The same Eags who handed Montana a 34-20 home loss in 2005 when they ranked as the second-best team in the country. Every time EWU slogs into the state (the beer-guzzling, mud-flap toting, red-headed and freckle-faced cousin of Wyoming), they seem to play with a chip on their shoulder. In fact, EWU has been the victorious team over Montana in four of its nine league losses all-time at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
Win or lose, when EWU fans wake up on Sunday morning they'll be able to root for a pro football team from their own state. And then when they wake up on Monday, they'll be able to go to work instead of spending the entire day on the Grizzly football forums talking about UM head coach Bobby Hauck's latest hairstyle.
That is hilarious. You are so right that eastern WA is just like Montana except we have a good football team. I smell a little jealousy.