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To open the 2011 sports season, I thought I would share my favorite quote with you whenever you hear someone suggest or say something that is ridiculous.

Mariners' G.M., after Marlins president David Samson criticized the $90 million extension Seattle gave Ichiro Suzuki: "My mother always taught me that if the only thing you have to say is 'Screw Dave Samson,' then don't say anything at all. So I'm not going to say anything at all. Is my mother the greatest or what?"
 
Good one Troy!
Kind of reminds me of the saying, "never argue with an idiot because it just brings you down to their level and they will beat you with experience."
Which reminds me of some of the posters on the E-Griz board!
 
"Every time I come to Missoula I feel like a prostitute on a Saturday night."

Dick Zornes, 1986

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1031989/7/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
EWURanger said:
"Every time I come to Missoula I feel like a prostitute on a Saturday night."

Dick Zornes, 1986

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1031989/7/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KqqRPvM_Sw[/youtube]
 
EWURanger said:
"Every time I come to Missoula I feel like a prostitute on a Saturday night."

Dick Zornes, 1986

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1031989/7/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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You can ask Tracy Poffenroth all about that one. To this day, the end of game "incompletion" might be the single worst call in the history of college football. I remember scores of Griz fans coming over and apologizing for that debacle.
 
LDopaPDX said:
EWURanger said:
"Every time I come to Missoula I feel like a prostitute on a Saturday night."

Dick Zornes, 1986

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1031989/7/index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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You can ask Tracy Poffenroth all about that one. To this day, the end of game "incompletion" might be the single worst call in the history of college football. I remember scores of Griz fans coming over and apologizing for that debacle.
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As maddening as it would probably be to watch it, I want to see as I'm a fairly recent EWU fan (2004). Is there any video of it somewhere?
 
No idea. Pre-dates most camcorder usage. I know Eastern would have it in their film vault if you went in and asked for it, they'd loan it to you.

In case you don't know what happened, Eastern was down 5 and going in to score. On the last play of the game, Eastern's QB (I think it was Todd Burnett) completed a pass to Tracy Poffenroth in the back of the endzone. Poffenroth caught the ball took one step, a second step, and third step, and celebrated as he ran out the back of the endzone. When he caught the ball, he was only about 6 yards deep in the endzone. The back judge ruled he never had a foot in the endzone and was out of bounds.

Even the Montana fans all started groaning because they knew they lost on a last second TD, and it took the fans about 30 seconds to realize the ref had gifted them the game. The refs then tossed the ball back onto the field and ran into the locker room without ever giving an explanation.
 
The word is that is was a young Bill Fette. ;)

Also, I thought I remembered Burnett being the QB back in the mid-90's when I was at Eastern. Maybe I am thinking of someone else though.
 
In 1986 Eastern was not yet in the Big Sky, so the Griz used local officials for the game. It was such a robbery that even the Missoulian printed a large picture on the front page of the Sunday paper after the game that clearly showed Poffenroth inbounds scoring the 'winning' td (final score Montana 42-37). It would be interesting to know if the Missoulian still has that photo. I believe Rob James was the QB that year (Todd Bernett played in '91-94). Dick Zornes comment was very appropriate. Eastern had two wins and a tie the three previous years against the Griz who were 0-2 in '86 coming into the Eastern game and the officials weren't about to let this one slip away. (Ed Simmons was a senior on the '86 team and Jim McElwain was the qb/wr coach).
 
Good call, it was Rob James. I knew it was whoever came in the year after Rick Worman. Todd Burnett was the guy who came after Mark Tenneson.
 
LDopaPDX said:
No idea. Pre-dates most camcorder usage. I know Eastern would have it in their film vault if you went in and asked for it, they'd loan it to you.

In case you don't know what happened, Eastern was down 5 and going in to score. On the last play of the game, Eastern's QB (I think it was Todd Burnett) completed a pass to Tracy Poffenroth in the back of the endzone. Poffenroth caught the ball took one step, a second step, and third step, and celebrated as he ran out the back of the endzone. When he caught the ball, he was only about 6 yards deep in the endzone. The back judge ruled he never had a foot in the endzone and was out of bounds.

Even the Montana fans all started groaning because they knew they lost on a last second TD, and it took the fans about 30 seconds to realize the ref had gifted them the game. The refs then tossed the ball back onto the field and ran into the locker room without ever giving an explanation.
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WOW. :ohno: :ohno: :ohno:
 
At the risk of sounding too much like a NDSU fan, there have been a few really bad calls made (in Missoula) in this series. I think it might have been 2001, where Yohance Humphrey scored a go-ahead TD in the final seconds but had either actually fumbled the ball or had gone out of bounds prior to getting in the end-zone.

2009 was pretty unbearable to watch at times as well.......the stupid unsportsman-like penalty on Boyce and a plethora of other BS calls, a few of which went against the Griz as well.
 
There have been some bad calls in the Big Sky, especially in games involving EWU and Montana. We tend to be on the wrong side of those calls. But nothing, and I mean NOTHING, came close to the 1986 call. When I called it "possibly the worst call in the history of college football," I wasn't kidding.
 
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