Civil War's opening salvo? Beavers pay to light Morrison Bridge orange during rivalry week

Fans of Oregon opponents Washington and Oregon State pay to light Morrison bridge in team colors during respective game weeks. Duck fans utterly fail to care.

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That worked so well for the Huskies too!

It’s okay. I’ll still send my money to the Oregon Athletics instead of the city of Portland.

It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-U-N-S-U-R-E-O-F-H-I-M-S-E-L-F"

by JShufelt on Nov 5, 2009 5:07 PM PST reply actions

honestly, who cares

I with Shufelt on this one.

--Dave
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by David Piper on Nov 5, 2009 7:41 PM PST reply actions

Yeah, it’s not that I care at all about the bridge itself. I’m just amused by how several OSU people were like “Oh, we need to buy this now before the Duck people do.”

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by AllSaintsDay on Nov 5, 2009 10:22 PM PST up reply actions

I heard today that the Beavs won the Civil War “blood drive” contest last year. I thought that was curious until I realized, of course they did. They probably thought it was at a plasma center….$$$!

You know, maybe the d-bag who spent that money on bridge lights should have instead spent it on some game tickets and sent a few unfortunate kids to a football game. Not that going to a Beaver game would make the kids more fortunate, but I hear there are plenty of tickets available.

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by JConant on Nov 5, 2009 8:27 PM PST reply actions 2 recs

I heard that the guy actually did offer that first, but the kids turned it down. “An Oregon State game?” they said. “Nah, we’ll just kick this can around an alley for three hours.”

Seriously, when Washington did it, it was clever. A playful jab. And it worked – it got quite a few Duck fans riled up. It obviously didn’t help the team play better, but at least UW fans have that small victory to smirk about. The second time it’s done is just silly.

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by Gorbachav5 on Nov 6, 2009 9:09 AM PST up reply actions

The blood drive was won when they filled the 65th - 35 litre container of O positive.

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by Bill Musgrave on Nov 6, 2009 3:01 PM PST up reply actions

Wow guys

You know damn well if a Duck fan did this, you guys would be singing his praise, talking about how awesome its going to look and blah blah blah. Don’t act all high and mighty like being a Duck fan is the end all be all of college sports.

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by The VD Special on Nov 8, 2009 5:40 PM PST reply actions

Don’t act all high and mighty like being a Duck fan is the end all be all of college sports.

It’s comments like this that merely reinforce the massive inferiority complex found in “Beaver Nation.”

--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Nov 8, 2009 7:02 PM PST up reply actions

Come on jt,

I’ve been posting around here for a while. Do I REALLY have an inferiority complex? No, absolutely not. But the arrogance that “oh it doesn’t matter because we didn’t do it” is what bugs me, that’s all. Like I said in my original post, if Phil Knight did this, every Duck fan would be talking about how awesome it’s going to look.

I’m not saying that we’ve won something by lighting the bridge. Or even that it means anything. But it is something cool, so why do Duck fans have to comment on everything?

By the way, that “d-bag” that paid for the lights was Mrs Reser. And the Reser’s have been more than charitable. Not that any of you care.

Defending Jacquizz against Jahvid since 2008.

by The VD Special on Nov 8, 2009 8:37 PM PST up reply actions

When you post ridiculous trollish comments like this, yes, you do have an inferiority complex. And while you do a good job of being reasonable for the most part, it breaks itself out from time to time.

And while JConant may have gone a little far by calling Mrs Reser a d-bag (I’m assuming he didn’t know it was Mrs Reser at the time), I’m pretty sure most of us could care less about the lighting issue. To me, it seems like a massive waste of money. But, anyone that wants to worry about that can knock themselves out.

--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Nov 8, 2009 8:56 PM PST up reply actions

I’m not sure it was trollish but alright.

As for the massive waste of money, its about $110/day to light the Morrison St bridge, very little for what the Reser’s have.

Defending Jacquizz against Jahvid since 2008.

by The VD Special on Nov 8, 2009 9:26 PM PST up reply actions

Are you asking us to like it?

In part it’s a bit of a loud public move, so it kinda asks for a response from those who would care. Don’t think the OSU faithful was very quiet about Harrington billboard and such, in fact I have some close friends who will pop an artery in their head to this day talking about the hatred they feel for such “arrogant” moves by UO. You light up Times Square or Portland Bridges, methinks you invite a response.

It also is the SECOND effort at this idea, and it isn’t arrogance to call that lame, it’s just kinda ho hum lame, ya know? I think that’s what you are reading above, Washington got to this grand idea first. I think you’re wrong when you say we’d love it if Uncle Phil jumped on a bandwagon idea. Kinda maybe a good jab the first effort, albeit expensive, kinda silly round two.

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by Bill Musgrave on Nov 8, 2009 9:04 PM PST up reply actions

The biggest thing was that it’s now totally unoriginal. When the UW fans did it, some people cared, some didn’t. But the UW fans did something that should make any Duck fans laugh. Now that it’s being emulated, it’s pretty boring.

--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Nov 8, 2009 9:08 PM PST up reply actions

in fact I have some close friends who will pop an artery in their head to this day talking about the hatred they feel for such "arrogant" moves by UO.

I can honestly say I used to be one of those fans. Now, as ridiculous as I thought it was, I realize that it was just pure brilliance in marketing (only since majoring in marketing have I realized it). Where I think Beaver fans got so upset is over the fact that that kind of marketing wasn’t warranted for Joey Harrington. It’d be like doing the same thing for Quizz next year— a good player, but not somebody that deserves a giant poster in Manhattan (on the light side, it would be kind of funny/ironic to see Quizz on a poster that size).

And no, I’m not asking you to comment on it. I’m not saying its a great idea, or original, or anything like that. My point was, and still is, if a Duck fan did this, you’d be excited about. Now, all there is is trashing it.

Defending Jacquizz against Jahvid since 2008.

by The VD Special on Nov 8, 2009 9:35 PM PST up reply actions

I already addressed your point.

I disagree. I “and every Duck fan” would not be excited about it if it represented us. I won’t speak for every single fan, but the guys here all seem to be saying: it’s been done, so it’s now ho hum, and that’s certainly what I’m saying for myself. You’re asserting biased opinions laced with indignant name calling – we’re all arrogant, high and mighty, think we’re the end all be all – and I’m just telling you that it appears we (or certainly I) think it’s a tired, second hand idea not because we’re crazy homers but because it’s a tired, second hand idea. It was done already. Seems pretty rational? Can’t be true, Ducks are always arrogant and hypocritical?

You’re wanting to call out arrogance, but your thoughts are arrogant themselves.

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by Bill Musgrave on Nov 9, 2009 12:55 AM PST up reply actions

Alright points made. This is a dumb argument.

Let’s move back to football

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by The VD Special on Nov 9, 2009 10:06 AM PST up reply actions

Why must you bring up painful memories?

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by JShufelt on Nov 9, 2009 11:09 AM PST up reply actions

I dunno… I would have still laughed at it and said I’d rather see the money go towards the Athletic Department or the OMB. If it were done as some sort of fundraiser, I would have given props.

I didn’t care when UW did it, and I care LESS now. Even if an Oregon fan did do it.

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by JShufelt on Nov 9, 2009 9:25 AM PST up reply actions