Duck Futter
Now, this may be mainly a Giants blog, but I’ve slipped some Raiders posts in occasionally as well. And now I’m going to add an adopted team of mine, the Oregon Ducks.
I graduated from the UO in June. It’s the reason I find myself in Oregon right now. Still, I didn’t really start getting into the teams until recently. I’ve never been good at the whole school spirit thing and it seemed that nostalgia started early for me.
Regardless, my new commitments brought me to Mac Court in Eugene on Saturday for the game against UCLA. No. 1 UCLA. The best-in-the-country Bruins.
The place sold out for the game what must have been years ago and it sounded as if all of those people snuck in a friend with a bullhorn. The only thing it reminded me off was the playoff crowds from the Raiders’ Super Bowl run, if you shoved them all into a box.
There is no suspense to this post. The Ducks pulled out a last second victory, one of the biggest in the history of the program.
It was a great thing to be a part of. I’ve never seen a crowd storm the court in-person, and the general feeling of hysteria the whole time could have rivaled anything those bastards in North Carolina are capable of. The building literally shook all game long.
If this is something the students can keep up I think it will help make Oregon a consistent upper level Pac-10 team. College basketball is all about recruiting, and taking someone on a trip to Mac Court has to be a plus.
A couple of quick notes from the game:
Tajuan Porter will shoot from anywhere, anytime, no matter who is in front of him. And it’s a good thing. He is so effortless and fearless and many other lesses, he adds such a dimension on the court. Ernie Kent and Aaron Brooks both pointed to him as the reason for the turn in the team’s and Brooks’ play this season. It going to be fun to watch him grow.
Adam Zahn is a freakin gamer. He got elbowed in the eye in the first half. He came out because there was so much blood he couldn’t see anymore. He went into the locker room, got four stitches and came out for the last 10 minutes of the game. Unfortunately his uniformed was stained so he had to come out in a name-less number 54.
I graduated from the UO in June. It’s the reason I find myself in Oregon right now. Still, I didn’t really start getting into the teams until recently. I’ve never been good at the whole school spirit thing and it seemed that nostalgia started early for me.
Regardless, my new commitments brought me to Mac Court in Eugene on Saturday for the game against UCLA. No. 1 UCLA. The best-in-the-country Bruins.
The place sold out for the game what must have been years ago and it sounded as if all of those people snuck in a friend with a bullhorn. The only thing it reminded me off was the playoff crowds from the Raiders’ Super Bowl run, if you shoved them all into a box.
There is no suspense to this post. The Ducks pulled out a last second victory, one of the biggest in the history of the program.
It was a great thing to be a part of. I’ve never seen a crowd storm the court in-person, and the general feeling of hysteria the whole time could have rivaled anything those bastards in North Carolina are capable of. The building literally shook all game long.
If this is something the students can keep up I think it will help make Oregon a consistent upper level Pac-10 team. College basketball is all about recruiting, and taking someone on a trip to Mac Court has to be a plus.
A couple of quick notes from the game:
Tajuan Porter will shoot from anywhere, anytime, no matter who is in front of him. And it’s a good thing. He is so effortless and fearless and many other lesses, he adds such a dimension on the court. Ernie Kent and Aaron Brooks both pointed to him as the reason for the turn in the team’s and Brooks’ play this season. It going to be fun to watch him grow.
Adam Zahn is a freakin gamer. He got elbowed in the eye in the first half. He came out because there was so much blood he couldn’t see anymore. He went into the locker room, got four stitches and came out for the last 10 minutes of the game. Unfortunately his uniformed was stained so he had to come out in a name-less number 54.
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