Are there any Utah Fans on this board.....

[UtahDan]

If someone left the LDS church and stopped cheering for BYU, I wouldn't criticize. The interesting thing is that some of the best BYU fans here are non-practicing LDS.

Conversely, is someone a true BYU fan, or true member of the church for that matter, if they switched up allegiances and joined the church in high school or college? Some of us go back to pioneers, you know. We didn't join at the point when the church started being more than just a Utah church.

[SeattleUte]

Conversely, is someone a true BYU fan, or true member of the church for that matter, if they switched up allegiances and joined the church in high school or college? Some of us go back to pioneers, you know. We didn't join at the point when the church started being more than just a Utah church.

He just took a head shot at 3D!! OMG! I hope 3D doesn't leave the Church over this. This reminds me of the end of the Boise-Oregon game this year.

[UtahDan]

He just took a head shot at 3D!! OMG! I hope 3D doesn't leave the Church over this. This reminds me of the end of the Boise-Oregon game this year.

Ha! You just wish you could think of a way to get him to leave the church. Leading away the simple souls who stay is your sine qua non.

[pelagius]

Point of clarification: The Fiesta Bowl wasn't played on New Year's day then, was it.

LOL, for a brief moment you were worried ... No, it wasn't ... it was essentially equivalent to what the Holiday Bowl became. A little better because the Arizona schools were still in the conference (which is why it was a WAC bowl at that point).

It was a brand new bowl game as I recall. That's the only way a 7-4 WAC team would have been in it.

I think it started a few year earlier ... 71?

[LA Ute]

LOL, for a brief moment you were worried ... No, it wasn't ... it was essentially equivalent to what the Holiday Bowl became. A little better because the Arizona schools were still in the conference (which is why it was a WAC bowl at that point).

I think it started a few year earlier ... 71?

Yep, 1971. History here. It became a New year's Day Bowl in 1982. I was pretty young when it started but was following sports - it seems to me that the Fiesta began as a place for Arizona State to play a bowl game. The WAC got little respect then (as now). The Sun Devils went the first few years, then BYU in 1974, and ASU beat Nebraska in 1975 and ended up ranked no. 2 that year. It was the highest ranking ever for a WAC team until 1984, when . . . .

Anyway, I do remember that ASU was the unbeatable beast of the old WAC until they took off to the PAC-10 (and haven't been heard from much since).

[Viking]

Is it really? We have learned that UtahDan, SU, DU, and LA have all been BYU fans at one time or another. What a dumb question to ask.

Did UtahDan go to BYU at some point? If so, I swear I know the guy...

[myboynoah]

LOL, for a brief moment you were worried ... No, it wasn't ... it was essentially equivalent to what the Holiday Bowl became. A little better because the Arizona schools were still in the conference (which is why it was a WAC bowl at that point).



I think it started a few year earlier ... 71?

These are great reactions from our Ute Fan cousins.

"BYU went to the Fiesta Bowl in the '70s."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, that was before it was a New Year's Day bowl, correct?"

"Ty Detmer was a great quarterback."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, Ty Detmer was a good college quaterback."

"BYU was football national champions in 1984."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, that was a mythical national championship."

"Steve Young blah blah blah blah."

Ute Fan: "Steve Young is gay."

It's pavlovian. Any more of these out there?

[LA Ute]

That's one occasion where it's permissible to utter STFU in church.

No argument from me. Same rule applies when a speaker at a stake priesthood meeting starts his talk with a minute-long gloat session about a BYU win the previous day. He is actually a nice guy but blew that one.

[LA Ute]

These are great reactions from our Ute Fan cousins.

"BYU went to the Fiesta Bowl in the '70s."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, that was before it was a New Year's Day bowl, correct?"

"Ty Detmer was a great quarterback."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, Ty Detmer was a good college quaterback."

"BYU was football national champions in 1984."

Ute Fan: "Ahhh, that was a mythical national championship."

"Steve Young blah blah blah blah."

Ute Fan: "Steve Young is gay."

It's pavlovian. Any more of these out there?

For the record when BYU went to that Fiesta Bowl that was a significant accomplishment. I was happy. I don't mean to denigrate that, was just trying to remember the history.