How to celebrate a win

Sep 11, 2009, 12:00 AM

Are you entering your sophomore year, and still unsure what it feels like to watch the Huskies win a football game? Or are you a fifth-year senior who has blacked out the previous season and chooses not to remember any of the Tyrone Willingham era? Well, either way, here are some suggestions for what to do after Saturday's likely victory over Idaho, which would be the first for the Huskies since Nov. 17, 2007. - When partying after the game, remember not to cry - you're drinking out of joy, not sorrow, this time. Actually, yeah, you can still cry if you want to. It has been 15 games, after all. - Release some white smoke from the top window of your house, signifying that, at long last, the long wait has finally come to an end and a new leader has brought victory to the UW football program. - Untie the yellow ribbons from your Oak trees. - Hurl slurs and insults at the opposing team's fans as you exit the stadium. If you don't remember how, just do what an Oregon fan would do. But don't cold clock anybody - save that for the Apple Cup. - Kiss a random nurse in the middle of The Ave directly in front of a photographer. - Take a picture of the scoreboard and make screen printed T-shirts of it with 'I was there!' written underneath. - Call Mark Emmert to find out the exact parade route for Monday morning. - Join in with the gathered masses overturning cars and setting couches aflame on Greek Row. - Watch out for overturned cars and flaming couches on Greek Row. - Go for a celebratory dip in Drumheller Fountain. Then take a shower. - Watch the replay of the game the next day on FSN, just to make sure it actually happened. - Burn any apparel you still own that has the old 'weasel' logo on it. - Storm the field, but don't tear down the goalposts - save that for the first Pac-10 win. - Say a prayer before you go to bed/pass out thanking God that the Sounders are no longer the only football team in Seattle that have won anything in the past calendar year. Mainly just be thankful you don't have to pretend to care about the Sounders anymore. - Call Tyrone Willingham and ask, "Is your refrigerator running?" If he answers yes, reply, "Well, that's more than your backfield ever did at UW." Hang up before he berates you for lacking comportment, but not before you suggest that he apply for a job with the Seattle Mist. - Shave your head bald in homage to defensive coordinator Nick Holt. Then blame the decision on a bet that never happened. - Place an ill-advised bet on Washington to cover the double-digit spread against USC next week ... before the lines are even announced. - Wear your Ronnie Fouch replica jersey with pride. - Call your WSU friends at 3 a.m. and leave a, ahem, slurred rendition of 'Bow Down to Washington' on their voicemail. - Go to Dick's. - Stay up all night reading textsfromlastnight.com at Odegaard with Scott Woodward. - Stay up all night reading FMyLife.com posts by Idaho fans that read, "We just lost to UW. In football. FML." - Go back to Dick's.

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