The Mourning After: UW Loses Again

I’m forever an optimistic person, but there’s nothing that gets me down like my Washington Huskies blowing a game. The losses the last few years have been even more painful as we’ve gotten good, but haven’t been able to get over the hump and beaten an elite team while always dropping 1-2 games a year where we have no business in losing.

Enter the Cal Bears. After losing in Berkeley last year, we had a 70k+ packed house at 7:30pm ready for revenge. This was until a 3 hour lightning and weather delay. By the time gameplay resumed again around 10:30pm, 90% of the fans were already in bed or headed home and all home field advantage was more or less lost.

We ended up losing this game on many errors. Notably 5 dropped passes including one pretty much wide open touchdown. Add an awful false start on on the 1 yard line and that’s two touchdowns that were virtually erased.

UW should’ve won this game. Had any of these errors or lightning not hit, I probably would be writing about how we won right now, but that’s not how college football or life works.

As I reflect on how this translates to business, you can’t control the elements so you got to take what’s given to you and do what it takes to win. UW didn’t on Saturday and it’s going to hurt.