My wife cannot stand that I make a big deal out of this but . . . I do. Call it whatever you want but when it comes down to it something in my mind will not let me wear red. On Halloween It took everything possible to get myself to wear the stupid costume for work, but that was to spite the Utah fans so it wasn’t so bad. I was talking to a colleague and he was telling me that his little 4 year old refuses to wear his RED underwear, and also exclaimed that he did not want Santa Clause to come this year, because he wants a BLUE Santa not a RED one. The funny part about that is, he picked that up all on his own. Of course he had a little help from family being BYU fans, but it also helps that he has some Ute fans as cousins who terrorize him all the time so it is pretty safe to say that he is gaining that Ute callus already, and will probably not eat off any RED plates when he is older either.

As we all know the last couple of years the Games have been really close, and have come down to the wire, and in 2006 the last second of the game. I think that it is pretty safe to say that this game is going to be a good one this year, having seen all the games that have been played by both teams. The beautiful thing about this game is that neither team has to do anything to get each other pumped up for the meeting, it just comes with the territory. Starting the second that you realize “This is the week” it is a non stop adrenaline pumping feeling that continues all the way through the game.

Rivalry week can get pretty crazy as we all know with stupid fans feeling like they need to go and vandalize each others property. I will never forget the year that Yewts painted the big red “U” on top of the “Y” on Y Mountain. I just remember seeing it then waking up to the daily herald with the picture of the RED “U”

Of course this thing can be taken to extremes, just like the terrible tragedy that happened after the LSU-Alabama game, but it can also be a lot of fun to get each other all riled up and excited to see the outcome of the game, for the bragging rights for another year. So just keep the trash talk going here you go YEWT fans.