Post your favorite moments from the rivalry

[venkman]

For you Utes, the 1988 edition of the Holy War.

My only connection to this game is my wife's uncle scored the touchdown at the 28 second mark. He said after the game his dad, a BYU fan, didn't congratulate him on the win or for scoring a touchdown. He only said, "How could you do that to the Lord's team?"

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Ugggh, Covey. I've tried to block that game and that man from my memory. I still remember that idiot BYU cheerleader giving that ute player five. What a doofus.

[The_Tick]

That is correct IPU. I have meet you a few times. I know there were some folks I was leaving out...

I like meeting board members when I have the chance...

Folks I know I have talked with:

PAC
BYU71
RockyBalboa
Ewet
TAI
Tim
LiveCoug
Bernads
YT
Don't *ucko with Bucko
Non-Seq
Thrill

Things I have learned....

1. LiveCoug really is that dude from Rascall Flatts. And his wife likes to sew. Alot.

2. Tim is sexy in public. Eating killer sandwiches at a little place in Bakersfield with Live and I on his way through.

3. TAI is good at home repairs and will answer all sort of stupid questions.

4. Bucko always brings a different hot chick to most places.

5. Ewet will allow you and your best friend to crash his house at ungoshly hours to watch OSU beat Utah. He will even rewind the TIVO to let you look at the stacked chick with the "I love Beaver" shirt on.

6. Bernard hit the kid jackpot and has a sweet Tundra.

7. YT can have mobile TV. Seriously...if I could take a sattalite dish fly fishing I would never really come home.

8. BYU71 is way better than PAC at golf. PAC is funnier. PAC will sue you if you don't laugh at his jokes. And even for a loaded attorney....he will still let you buy your own pop. He likes to "keep it real".

9. Non-Seq and Thrill and myself were in a golf tourney together. It didn't go well.

10. IPU will help you dispose of a body. No questions asked. Everyone needs a friend like that.


I really do take any chance I can get to meet folks when I am there. It has been great. And when I am up for the season opener next year I will meet more. (I will also be up for a week of EFY this year, we better hook up dorks.)

PS - AussieCoug will even NCMO married dudes. Don't ask.

[fuegote]

For us long time ute fans, it was difficult sitting through and watching so many beat downs at the hand of LaVell Edwards. Here are some of my favorite moments.

I was at the 34-31 game at LES. I was with BYU fans who wanted to beat the traffic so we left...... but I still saw the kick from outside the stadium on our walk to the car. I made fun of him the rest of the way home. It was great.

I got home from my mission 2 days before the Kaneshiro game. Talk about breaking the mission bubble as I was sitting in the student section. I ended up hugging the man next to me until we discovered the kick wasn't good.

Lavell's last game was the time I started talking to my dad again and he went to the game with me. The dread i felt as the 4th and what seemed like 9,000,000 was converted and Doman ends up scoring later in the drive.

The 3-0 "dominating win"

The following year's BCS beatdown where I was at the U all day (early morning of gameday - I still have the tape with my close up - and walking on the field after the game, looking up at the jumbo-tron and telling my brother in law during Urban Meyer's press conference, "yeah, he's gone."

The over-time thriller at LES where when the last play was finished, listening to my U fan neighbors all run outside and scream, "YAHOOOOOOO"

The Beck/Harline miracle was one of the better football games I've been to in person. I remember the .02 seconds of disappointment in losing that game followed by the absolute enjoyment of being able to be in the stadium and watch such a great football game.

Who knows what happens this Saturday. I can just say, I've enjoyed the best part of the rivalry. These nail biters are costing me years at the end of my life, but it is well worth it.

Love the game, hate the weeks before and after.

[il Padrino Ute]

10. IPU will help you dispose of a body. No questions asked. Everyone needs a friend like that.

Legally.

Legally dispose of dead bodies.

However, how the body came to be dead doesn't necessarily have to be legal.

[cougjunkie]

During the Harline game after Casteel scored on that screen that stadium was deafening. I though to myself, one time BYU make a game winning play, please one time. The most underrated moment of that game was the catch by Mckay Jacobsen. I was in the endzone where Harlines catch occurred, I saw Harline open before Beck threw it and even yelled his name. When he caught it and 40,000 people went silent and 5,000 sounded like 50,000 I just sat in my seat in disbelief, I may have even shed a tear, not sure.

[CardiacCoug]

The 1993 game in LES (Utah winning 34-31 on the FG at the end) is the most memorable as far as a negative. My wife (girlfriend at the time) still talks about how I was "acting crazy" at that game. And I really was tempted to get out on the field after the game to defend the north goalpost from Ute fans and maybe try to beat a couple of them up to let off some steam. She didn't realize the full extent of my sports obsession until that moment. She was seriously bothered about how angry I was to the point of even reconsidering our relationship, but luckily she eventually got over it.

I was at the Staley sideline run game in 2001. I was actually up at the U. for a residency interview the Friday before the game so I had a chance to talk smack with a bunch of Yewt med students and residents as a warm-up to the game. It was the first BYU game I had attended in person for about 3 seasons, so it was awesome. I was sitting with my Dad in his great 45-yard line seats and it was a great bonding moment for us. Very memorable.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The most underrated moment of that game was the catch by Mckay Jacobsen.

Very true. I'm grateful Harline didn't blow an easy catch (which I could see happening, much like the steel elbow effect on an uncontested layup), but McKay's catch was money under pressure. With his return (and assuming no early departures), BYU should have its strongest starting receiving corps ever.

[SoCalCoug]

My favorite rivalry memory - the 70-something to 30-something beatdown by Ty Detmer.

[OrangeUte]

3-0 was my favorite in 2003. I wasn't there, but never before have I wished I had been at a game so badly. Blanking the cougs in the snow was awesome.

[venkman]

My most memorable rivalry moment was getting into a fight in the stands with a fellow Y fan during the 34-17 debacle in 95. Supposedly it caused quite a stir and the band played the theme to Rocky as we were escorted out by security.

In case you're wondering, I kicked his ass (with a little help from a poly in the row behind me).

[Teenage Dirtbag]

I thought the guy tripping the U cheerleader and then getting his ass kicked for his trouble was pretty funny. I think Val Hale ran a 4.5 40 getting down to the north end zone.