Apparently we won’t have beavers at the Rosebowl this year, which is too dam bad given their feisty efforts. Now I’m not a big football fan, but you can’t have a google alert set for “beavers” without picking up a bit of Oregon state news. I even tried to get the Alhambra High School Marching Band Director to play the Beaver fight song at our April city council meeting, but I think she wanted to wait to see whose side was going to win before she signed on.
Alas for the Beavers, it would have been their first time at the Rosebowl since the year I was born, but instead the Ducks won to the tune of 65-38 which means they destroyed the dam and just played the hell outta what the Seattlepi calls “an eyepopping 694 yards of offense”. If you want an upclose account check out the smart “Building the Dam” blog which mourns the loss. It had boldly boasted, “Turkey on Thursday. Duck on Saturday”, but ended with (duck) egg on its face. It was the 112th “Civil War” game between the Oregon State and the University of Oregon which is a long time for an aquatic civil war to be around.
What we should feel most sorry for is the awful newsroom punning that will be drained of all resources for years to come. The “dam’s been broken” “ducks pluck beavers” “beavers gnaw lost hopes”. It will be bad. The media will use all their beaver punning in this extravaganza and we’ll get nothing but tired leftovers when they’re interested in Martinez again.
For the record, this is what didn’t happen:
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