This is it, everyone - we really need you!
by JazzyUte on Oct 31, 2010 10:17 PM MDT
in Football
Email
PrintThis is the biggest game in the history of Utah football. It's the biggest college football game to take place inside the borders of Utah. Hyperbole and platitudes aside - this is a huge game.
Utah needs to win it and more importantly, we fans need to bring it.
That could prove to be the difference in a close contest. It could be the difference between an undefeated season and a trip to the Las Vegas Bowl. It could be the difference between maybe, maybe crashing the title game or ho-humming it through yet another pre-Christmas bowl game.
This is the difference between greatness and just pretty good. We had pretty good last season and while it wasn't terrible, I know we Ute fans want more.
Win Saturday and we'll get that. TCU is the biggest thing standing between Utah and its third undefeated regular season in six years.
So we must bring it Saturday.
It starts with ESPN College GameDay. The largest crowd ever at a GameDay event was 18,000 and that happened earlier this season at Missouri. We need to break that record. I damn well know there are 18,000 Ute fans out there. Don't just sit on your couch in your undies watching it on television. Come experience it. As someone who was there in 2004, you won't regret it.
At the game, I want your asses in the seat by kickoff. There is no excuse to be wandering in midway through the first quarter. This game is one where the intensity will be off the hook and the more noise we make and the harder we throw our support behind Utah early, the better they will perform. Nothing is worse than the team coming out of the locker room to a half-full stadium. We need to be cheering them from the start. All 45,000 of us - no exceptions!
Be loud. Be loud. BE LOUD.
I don't care if you have to stop talking for the rest of the week just to save your voice. If you feel you're not going to have enough in your lungs to belt out the noise - shut yer trap and conserve it. Make Rice-Eccles Stadium rock like no other. I want that stadium to sound like it did when Brian Johnson found Freddie Brown for the game-winning touchdown against TCU in '08 - but for the entire game. I want you all to leave hoarse and exhausted. If you're not completely exhausted by the end of the game, you're doing it wrong!
Stand up and don't relent. Never. I don't care if it's first, second or third down. I don't care if the old lady behind you nicely taps you on your shoulder and tells you to sit. Get her up, too! Even if you have to prop her up. Everyone should be up for this game. Not just on third downs. I want you all jumping and shaking and screaming. Make it hell for TCU.
Above all, though, have fun. Soak this week up because this is a truly great moment. GameDay, top-five teams, BCS implications - it doesn't get much better than this. So relax a bit and enjoy it. Yes, we're all going to be a nervous wreck this entire week. Yes, we might not have any fingernails left by the time Saturday's game rolls around. But the epicenter of college football this week will be right here in Salt Lake City.
Let's prove we're the best and loudest fans in the country. More importantly - let's get behind our Utes and show the nation they are a legitimate national championship contender.
Here we go. Get ready and LET'S GO UTES!
36 comments
|
2 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
Great Post!!
As a southern California Ute fan, I won’t be able to make the game, but it is wonderful to have Game Day back at RES and nationally televised. I hope Whitt will have the team firing on all cylinders. TCU is a legitimate NCG contender this year, but with the home field advantage it will be fun to see those frogs squirm. Go UTES!
I will be there
and yes, WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE!
I'm there
45 minutes early in black. In my seat (On my feet really) to boo at TCU while they warm up. I’m going at the beginning of the tailgate this time, not mid-way through.
But truthfully, I’m gonna make it to Game-Day, so 45 minutes early may be underestimating it. It may be more like 4-5 hours early.
And while I was exhausted after the PITT game, I plan on not being able to talk for a week after this one.
1st down jumps will be the norm.
How many can we get?
Can we get 40,000 black-clad fans at RES? It’s so close to game time, I think we can do it. Let’s knock the stadium down before the game starts! Come 1:30, TCU is walking into a meat-grinder inside a minefield. I’m calling out Ute fans right now!!! No one can sit down until halftime, and then back up until the fans storm the field at the end of regulation. If you don’t think the fans can will a team to victory, you weren’t there in 2008. It can be done and will be done.
Look for me in W16 with the ‘98’ sign for Sealver and the DK-44 sign for Kruger. Go Utes!!!
by bbmagic on Nov 1, 2010 12:46 AM MDT reply actions 1 recs
Signage
I want massive signage at the game. Rattle TCU, show the nation what Utah Football means. I like the idea of WELCOME TO HELL. Tell you how to make it. Go buy some foamboard at Walmart, etc. Cut it in half. That makes two letters and each letter is a few feet tall (it’s how I make the 98 sign or the KEPA sign I held up all last season). You’ll need about 7-8 of them. Bring the stack of letters and pass them down your row. When TCU takes the field, tell everyone to put them up. It will fire up the crowd like you won’t imagine. Hell, we get Dave Kruger coming clear across the field to our section to fire us up when we throw up his sign. Sealver gives us a few points each game. Show the players the love and they’ll return it on the field.
Fire the boys up!!! Demoralize TCU! It’s on us as fans to go the extra mile. We need deafening conditions and absolute hostility. TCU is going to get blitzkrieged right from the start. Bring it, Utah fans!!!
Hell yes.
I wouldn’t miss this game for anything. I really don’t know how I’m going to be able to focus on anything of importance this week. I’m always early to the games. This is the ultimate statement game. If we come out and take it to them, it could land us a MNC berth if we go undefeated. Beware, Froggies, Beware!
Criag James is a PUNK
This ESPN punk has cut utah from his top ten every week . It would be great to have some game day signs that dog that BCS brown-noser. He’s as bad as Barry Switzer
does switzer actually still have a vote that old geezer? remember his infamous line before the game started with bama
in my best okie drawl “there is not one player on the utah roster that bama would have recruited” anybody got suggestions oh how i could mix that up with craig james zhit?
Utah and Boise State: The two best teams in the nation. Both undefeated and with a combined 12-2 against the spread. Why do canadians stick together? The same reason why Chris Horodecki turned his body and face around in his first WEC fight. J.J. my puta and my personal dartboard. Brock Lesnar the most over-rated MMA fighter there is. Even more over-rated than Kimbo Slice.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Nov 1, 2010 8:58 AM MDT up reply actions
We Must Protect this House!
Unfortunately, I live in Nashville, TN, but I will be sporting black from home watching College Gameday and getting hyped for the game. We need everyone standing, and if you can’t jump on 3rd downs, at least stand up and yell. I can tell that when I watch the games on TV you can actually see the camera shake on a 3rd Down.
Get there early and be loud from the very beginning. Also, do me a favor and someone create a sign that says, “Welcome to HELL!”, it will be a great welcome for the horned frogs. I can’t wait for this game and for next week when I go to South Bend to see the Utes in person. GO UTES!!!
I am flying in from Dallas on Friday!
My son is in his freshman year at the U (3rd generation Utah Man – my dad was class of ‘68 / I’m class of ’93) and got me a guest pass in the MUSS…I AM PSYCHED!!!
We went to the game in Ft. Worth last year so we are looking forward to some pay back!!!
"Well ain't this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere!"
it's going to be fun to see when andy dalton gets rattled(boise state game and osu game) and throws some picks to see the reaction of gary patterson.
patterson is getting almost as bad as nick saban. when things go wrong you think their blood vessels and arteries will burst.
Utah and Boise State: The two best teams in the nation. Both undefeated and with a combined 12-2 against the spread. Why do canadians stick together? The same reason why Chris Horodecki turned his body and face around in his first WEC fight. J.J. my puta and my personal dartboard. Brock Lesnar the most over-rated MMA fighter there is. Even more over-rated than Kimbo Slice.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Nov 1, 2010 9:01 AM MDT up reply actions
Don't have me no ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train...
But i’ll be whoopin it up in south central tex come 2:30 (CDT of course)!!!
flag’s always flyin out front, magnets posted on vehicles
i’ll even be doin face paint!!!
GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the right...my future brothers-in-law working hard on one of the trifecta of a Black & Gold birthright..."inebriation", yet before they acquired "nastiness" or "vandal-phrenia"
Thanks Jazzy
Youre right, this is it. We need to bring it. I had some crap to do satruday morning, but now that crap will be put aside. I will be there bright and early in black/red for college gameday and will bring some friends! Just imagine where we’ll be a week from now with a win.
Incoming!
All the way from South Carolina, and bringing the whole family. WE WILL BE THERE!!! In black and loud. I couldn’t decide between coming out for this game or going to Notre Dame, but I am glad that I chose this one. I don’t know if I will be able to work at all this week, but WHO CARES!! This is HUGE!
Driving 13 hours to get there!!!!
With Gameday coming on Saturday morning we are now leaving overnight on Thursday to get there at a good time on Friday. That way we will be there first thing on Saturday morning.
Ute Fan Faithful STAND UP!
Amen to all said in this here post!
The time is NOW
Go Utes!
-Your friendly neighborhood Ute fan faithful
I'll be there an hour early...
as I usually am, and I’ll be making some serious noise the whole game.
But I’m not going to all the gameday crap. I refuse to support ESPN and their shitty network (and commentators) that have tried to ignore the Utes and other ‘mid-majors’ and try to keep us down when we’ve done so well over the last 6 or 7 years. I’m not going to come running just beacuse they call. I know some of you may disagree with that point of view, and I undersatnd. But screw ESPN.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I'm stuck in VA but I'll be watching, do us proud!
On a side note I went to a highschool football game last week in Virginia Beach and saw a girl with a Ute T-shirt. I was wearing a Utah sweatshirt, two Ute fans 2000 miles from SLC randomly meeting up. Maybe I’m dumb, but it made my night. xD
Cannot wait!
I’ll be going crazy in DC, so like NC Ute says above, do us proud!
by Big Easy Halofan on Nov 1, 2010 1:16 PM MDT reply actions
Just hope this game is on in NY
Going to be at the SU-Louisville game in Syracuse, which will end around 12PM EDT. Then will head over to a local sports bar, and bribe the bartender to switch to the Utah game.
Annoying that both my schools are this good this year.
Three teams I despise: Georgetown Hoyas, BYU Cretins, and the New York Yankees.
Better than being a TDS alumnus. :)
Three teams I despise: Georgetown Hoyas, BYU Cretins, and the New York Yankees.
by Michael Simpson on Nov 1, 2010 8:09 PM MDT up reply actions
Work is down the tube this week...
I am just way too excited. From Montana, GO UTES!!!!
2011 Pac-12 Championship Preview:
Never mind. Auburn will lose, you’ll beat TCU and jump Boise into #2, Utes vs. Ducks in Glendale and we’ll show the SEC what truly dominant conference looks like (no offense to the MWC). Only problem: In 2011 PXII title game, only one of us can win and play whatever sacrificial lamb is awaiting at that other game.
by BigGreenWreckingMachine on Nov 1, 2010 8:29 PM MDT reply actions
LOL I am touting this very idea on B/R!!
Zoo Cougar n. A "special" breed of feline, characterized by its propensity to have its attempts at swallowing a canary inevitably resulting in its choking on crow. See also: Zoobie, Cosmo Nut, Sexless Cat, Hippo-C-Rat origin: It takes a special kind of kitty to try and swallow the canary and end up choking on crow. --Ute Proverb
"If going undefeated in a non-AQ conference is so easy why aren't more teams doing it???" --Andrea Adelson, ESPN?!?
My dream game!
I’d love to see the Ducks and Utes have at it!
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word" - Andrew Jackson
Wish I could be there...
Maybe I’ll show up for game day @ 7am then rush home for kickoff… Remember GameDay starts at 7 am!
If they had seating with back support I’d be there making noise….
Do they still have those red Moroni trumpets available???
I like the hell idea… Red face paint with black around the eyes and mouth would ROCK!
HOWL like demons from the DEEPEST reaches of HELL!!
Zoo Cougar n. A "special" breed of feline, characterized by its propensity to have its attempts at swallowing a canary inevitably resulting in its choking on crow. See also: Zoobie, Cosmo Nut, Sexless Cat, Hippo-C-Rat origin: It takes a special kind of kitty to try and swallow the canary and end up choking on crow. --Ute Proverb
"If going undefeated in a non-AQ conference is so easy why aren't more teams doing it???" --Andrea Adelson, ESPN?!?
Have fun at the game Utes
I’ll be in Florida cheering for the guys.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."--John Heisman
The Bay Area will Rock...
For the second time this week after the Utes off the Frogs. A cluster of Alumni will be at my place watching and making noise.
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word" - Andrew Jackson
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
- Urban Meyer
"Wow. Wow. Wow."
- Daryl Johnston after Utah took a 21-0 lead on Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl
Related FanPosts on Block U
Related FanShots on Block U
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
