A Sign that the Apocalypse is Upon Us

[The Miami Ute]

During the last few episodes of the “Locked on Utes” podcast, there’s been way, way more BYU fans posting comments than anyone else. It’s the usual BS from their point of view. What is the deal here? Never seen anything like it.

[Tony (admin)]

The last decade or so has been so wonderful. I’d literally blocked them out of my mind. They didn’t even exist. Now? Bla.

[The Miami Ute]

Consider my case Tony, almost the entirety of my Utah fandom has been spent A. Out of Utah and B. With the Utes in the PAC…as I said, before the last 12 months or so, I just viewed BYU as your basic, garden variety opponent. I’ve gone from zero to crazy regarding them in really, the last week. I pity you for having to grow up here during the 70s-80s…must have been utterly unbearable.

[2008 National Champ]

2 years. That’s all I lived in Salt Lake for. It was a great 2 years. I knew plenty of people who were BYU grads, went to BYU, or just liked that school better than mine for whatever reason, although it usually had to do with church membership. No bad interactions with BYU people.

And then November 19, 1988 happened. The school I went to stopped being lovable losers and were now a threat to BYU fans world order which just could not be acceptable. The beating was so bad that BYU fan started coming up with reasons why that game and Utah fan didn’t matter by halftime. No acknowledgement that the perceived better team doesn’t always win. No acknowledgement that Utah might have done something right in that game. Just the irrational need to stomp out any good feelings Utah fan might have considered having before they could come to fruition. Which just goes to show you that it didn’t matter how many times Lavell beat Utah, BYU fans inferiority complex could never truly be satisfied.

[Tony (admin)]

You are correct. On a personal level there’s much more and based on the comments of many here I know I’m not alone.

[2008 National Champ]

My favourite part of my Sports Illustrated subscription was always “This Week’s Sign that the Apocalypse is Upon Us”

[The Miami Ute]

I remember that, well, that and the February bikini issue with the likes of Cheryl Tiegs…

[2008 National Champ]

The bikini issue was always so overrated. If it wasn’t for the faux controversy, it probably would never have been a thing. You could see women in bikini’s in any of the women’s magazine on a monthly basis and for anyone who has ever experienced a summer in their lifetime, they’ve probably been exposed to a lot more than what was in Sport’s Illustrated.

My middle and high schools refused to keep those editions in the periodical sections. My wildly liberal mother even intercepted those for a couple of years but never did anything when she found my Playboy’s.

[The Miami Ute]

So, kind of related but a funny anecdote about magazines and censorship…I’ve lived in Saudi Arabia for a couple of periods of my life. At the same time, I’m a huge European soccer fan, following Real Madrid since pretty much infancy. So, every month or so, I would go to downtown Riyadh and pick up a couple of British soccer magazines like 4-4-2 or World Soccer for my reading enjoyment.

The first time I did so I came upon something really interesting…see, in Saudi at that time, there was a government arm called the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice or Mutawa for short..and the Mutawa had a veritable army of censors whose sole job was to inspect any foreign publication that came into the country and make sure it didn’t have any un-Islamic elements. If the publication had something considered un-Islamic, well the Mutawa would do something about it.

So, the first time I bought one of those magazines, I was turning the pages and saw photos of women where the only thing you saw was the face and the rest of the body had black magic marker so that it appeared like she was wearing an abaya (full body covering), adverts for alcohol completely blotted out with black magic marker, and if the photo or advert was too egregious, whole pages ripped out. That was normalcy there…anyways, the point is we have a long way to travel before we can complain about censorship in this country.

[2008 National Champ]

any censorship is too much but I agree that the amount we deal with in the US constitutes a first world problem.

[utefansince79]

They are starting to act like they did back in the 80s. (And it was indeed quite unbearable).

Would think they would be far more interested in their upcoming games and potential conference title game and playoffs then they are in a team near the bottom of the standings.

[The Miami Ute]

They just can’t let it go…when I hear statements from them to the tune of “our season has already been made, 22-21!”, well, they’re in for a fall…

[utefansince79]

Back in 2004 and 2008, we finished the regular season against BYU both years. At that point most Utah fans were completely focused on the Fiesta and Sugar Bowls.

[China Rider]

I like to think I’m a Ute’s guy but that JT Wistrol character ….I’ve given up on him. Maybe it’s because he’s from Big 12 country and can’t help himself when he’s trying to convince me that the Big 12 is the best thing since sliced bread. He turns me right off. I don’t know if he’s walking/talking the company line or what but he sure does strike me as a Big 12 apologist like the rest of them in that sound chamber. Maybe it’s just me and I don’t like kids walking on my lawn. Call me Mr. Wilson Dennis.

[The Miami Ute]

Well, you’re not wrong…I listen to him on a daily basis and his last few shows have taken a “turn the page, move along, there’s nothing to see here” tone about last Saturday’s events…I mean, he’s said stuff like “the vast majority of Utah fans are happy and excited to be in the Big 12” which, to me, is the biggest hoax since the Cardiff Giant. When you hear stuff like that, well, that’s the tell that the dude has gone corporate and is toeing the party line. If it continues, he’s going to lose me as a sub and there really won’t be any YouTube Ute channels that will appeal to me.

[ORute]

It’s like all of a sudden someone turned on the lights and they all just scurried out from under the fridge. Life was so much better before the infestation.

[The Miami Ute]

To me it’s more like “Dawn of the Dead.”

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