With the coming of April, ISU sports is moving towards the dreaded off-season, towards the horrible coming months of baseball and golf, the least chaotic sports of the whole bunch. The Big Sky has also come to a standstill, with little action anywhere as the various animal-inspired universities reload for the wonderful month of August. So, to the readers, expect some really random things. Of course, that's the nature of the blog anyways, so...yeah. It's Spring Break so I can see how creative I can get. If I can last 1 week, the blog should be fine for the summer. Either that or a hiatus is in store. But who wants that? ANYWAAAYSSS...
The Montana Grizzlies held a victory parade through the streets of Missoula today, to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their great 22-20 Championship victory over Marshall. Field Marshall Don Read was present to the celebrations; in fact he is the one giving the speech in this fantastic video captured by KPAX and local affiliates.
Here is the translation of the video, as for some reason the blog obtained the video feed that was to be shipped to Grizzly fans in the Russian Federation:
Don Read:
"It has been 14 years since that glorious win in Huntington, West Virginia, that ensured Montana's rise to permanent dominance in the Big Sky and the nation. Since that fateful day, Montana has dominated the Big Sky Conference like no other entity has seen, covering the Conference in a glorious Maroon blanket. We are one of the nation's elite teams, and nobody will ever take us from that pinnacle that is our birthright! URAH!" *War cries pierce the air*
*The Marching Band plays "Hail to Our Glorious Missoula." After that, the parade grounds fall silent as the Marching Band calls the People's Army of the Grizzly to rapt attention. Don Read orders the officers to march and present arms. Comrade Read finally gives the orders to begin the parade*
Other News...
Meanwhile, in Bozeman, Montana State, not to be outdone *giggle, giggle...right* held their own National Title Celebration at a local bar. There they spent several hours in torment, trying to confirm that they actually won a national title in 1982, if at all. Finally, at 1:08 AM, the bartender told an almost passed-out crowd of Bobcat fans that they had indeed won the national title, however correcting the drunken masses that it was actually in 1984. The crowd cheered, sang their hybrid Texas-Ohio University fight song (slurring the words, of course) and proceeded to pass out screaming F**K MONTANA! The party was broken up the next morning by the police, who gently roused the crowd awake by playing a recording of "Up With Montana, Boys!" The crowd then threw bottles and cans at the laughing police, who got out with astonishing speed. The policemen were confirmed Montana fans.
In other news, Portland State has confirmed that Elvis will be a season-ticket holder for the 2009-2010 PSU Viking season. It has been speculated that Jerry Glanville placed The King there after many months of unsuccessful lobbying with the PSU Athletic Department and appealed to the President of the university. The PSU AD had nothing to say on the matter; probably realizing it was inevitable.
Sacramento State......yeah, let's move on. Nothing to see here. Really.
Weber State has issued a press release confirming the dates of their Spring Games...although they will, in all likelihood, be attended by the team...aaaand that's about it, save for the Purpley die-hards that patrol the Weber State fan forums. And perhaps one of the 126 people that attended Weber State's win over Montana during the regular season.
Idaho State is still dirt poor. Moving along....
Eastern Washington has confirmed with the Big Sky Press Agency that they will, indeed, have a football team next season. Paul Wulff is still an asshole for getting the team into the mess they are in, and the NCAA is still a bunch of guys even older and grayer than the old Soviet elite who insist on punishing the school and not the coach for the sake of looking like they are actually relevant in college athletics. Anyways, kudos to EWU and best of luck to them next season.
Northern Colorado and NAU have nothing particularly interesting to report at this time, except that both are still existing and both are on for the 2009-2010 Athletic Year.
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