My parents met at BYU and I grew up with my mom singing the BYU fight song. 6 of the 7 kids in my family went to BYU and the last couldn't make it into college.

My first game was my freshman year in 1999. I happened to be at BYU for what I think were the worst five years in the last forty. Still I graduated in 2006 with an absolute love for BYU. I live in the Tri-Cities Washington and work as a civil engineer. The last two games I watched in person were the overtime losses to TCU and Utah in 2005. Not good notes to end with. I am hoping to make it to the Washington game this year.

My wife is becoming more and more of a fan. We met at BYU, and actually worked at the games for a year. The next year we planned to attend a game together (money was tight) but then she was put on bed rest with our son. Last year she wanted to buy him (now two years old) a utah red sweat shirt. Obviously this was hard to swallow, but the sweat shirt said "junior varsity" which describes the utes pretty well. Still he was strickly prohibited from wearing red on any game day, and the entire week of the utah game.

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runbyu1 wrote:

I'm a former BYU athlete and Orem High Alumn. Went to school with a lot of guys on the football teams recently: Johnny Harline (His sister and my sis were very good friends), Jason Kukahiko (was in my ward), Chad Barney, Spencer White, Chris Hale, Adam Nelson, Rod Wilkerson, etc. I've been out here in Laie, Hawaii for the last couple of years livin' it up and having a great time. I'm an outdoorsman and a singer-songwriter and interestingly enough I was a Junior Black Belt and Adult Brown Belt in Kenpo. I love all cougar sports, but football is my favorite to watch and follow.

We may know eachother. I played ball with all of those guys. Graduated from OHS in '98.

Job: survey technician
School: UVSC (pre-engineering will be a civil engineer)
BYU: Been going since the late 80s. Remember concussion Covey? I loved that guy.
Misssion: South Korea Seoul West Mission
Personal: Just joined the Army reserves and ship to boot and a.i.t. after this semester is over. I've been married for 10 months and we're expecting our first this September.

Wow, I don't usually check out the "other" section, but it looks like I've been missing out. its taken me a couple days to get through all of this (despite my major free time).

I'm 18, graduated last year from Orem High (looks like there's a couple of other tigers on here). I didn't think I was going to graduate, but I did. I worked my butt of for the last semester after a counselor gave me TERRIBLE advice. I now work at a probation office in Provo. (I get to drive by LES EVERY DAY.... TWICE! and I always look as long as I can) Hengst, you also worked in probation? Its a great job. The people I deal with (mostly utes... seirously) make me realize why I want to live the way I do.

I'm currently going to UVSC/UVU, its ok. I work full time, then going to school, I have to take night classes which sucks becuase all the girls are married! side note, Shake, I had an english class with your cousin. Anyways, I haven't decided on a major, and I'm sick of people asking me what I'm going to major in. I just tell them Law because thats what I do with work. I don't know what I want to major in, and I'm not even going to think about it until after I get off my mission.

I can start my papers for my mission in just about a month. My birthday is August 22nd, so the earliest I can leave is August 27th, which is a mere 3 days before the first game. So, I will be missing, what could be the best two years in BYU history! So I don't want to hear about you guys missing 2001 anymore!!! lol. I've made my parents promise me on several different occasions, that they will record EVERY game for me. I figured it out once, let me do the math again real quick. Thats 26 games at four hours a peice 104 hours Which is a total of 4.3 days. I will have to sleep and eat though. So when I get back from my mission, I will lock myself in my room (enjoy some time by my self for a change) and watch BYU football for 8 days straight!

I come from a long line of students of BYU. Both my parents, and all of my grandparents went to BYU. I'm not going to BYU becuase 1. I'm not ready to get married yet. and 2. I honestly don't care about grades that much. My mom and dad used to go to BYU football games every week. For as long as I can remember, my family had season tickets, and having 2 older sisters, I always got to go. I didn't really know what was going on at all. I remember loving Steve Sar... you know. I'm not even going to attempt to spell it. Then I don't know what happened for a couple of years. Then in 2000, I became a die hard fan. It was like a switch just turned on. I have on tape, every single game from 2002 on. I still watch some of the older ones. During the summer, I watch all the games from the year before just to get a fix. I don't really have an inside connection with BYU.

In High school, I used to write sports for the newspaper, and would write BYU football articles. In high school, I was known by those who didn't know me, as the BYU kid, or the kid with the BYU hat. EVERY DAY, I went to high school, I would wear a BYU hat, I had a different one for each year of my high school career. In my sophmore and junior yearbook photos, my hair is matted down where my hat was. Still worth it. I've been on ABC 4s sports trivia thing with a friend, and lost. They totally cheated me! I was also on TV during the BYU Tulsa game where it rained, the camera zoomed in on me wearing my John Beck Jersey and yelling number on. (thankfully I was recording that game!)

imuakahuku wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:

Attorney in Merced, CA

My board usage is slowing down, as my billable hours have increased.

I do not see any correlation....

I was wondering how any of the accountants on this board had any time to post! It's not April 16 yet.

The procrastinators won't show up until a few days prior to The deadline. I love billing double for rushed returns.

harlinestillopen wrote:

I can start my papers for my mission in just about a month. My birthday is August 22nd, so the earliest I can leave is August 27th, which is a mere 3 days before the first game. So, I will be missing, what could be the best two years in BYU history! So I don't want to hear about you guys missing 2001 anymore!!! lol.

I had the opposite "problem." I was a freshman in 2002, which was bad enough, but I missed two of the worst seasons in BYU history while serving in Paraguay. I came back in 2005, just in time for the the beginning of the soon-to-legendary Bronco Era.

It's been interesting reading everyone's responses, but since I posted, I've noticed that a sizeable portion of the commentary has developed to be a recitation of cougar pedigree and upbringing, so I thought I'd share that also.

My mom and dad both grew up in big BYU families, they started dating at the Y, and were married during the dawning of the LaVell era. The stars aligned to make me a ravenous cougar fan beginning from day one. On the very day I was born, BYU clobbered the Utes 27 - 0, the Y's first and only shutout of the U, that game being their 10th win that year, and the first double-digit-win season in BYU history. Talk about a sign, right?!! My folks tell me my mom yelled at the doctor multiple times between contractions not to turn the game down. Gotta love her!

My folks moved our little family up to Alaska in '83, and my first memories of BYU sport were going down to the Air Force base and watching Cougar Football and Basketball in the Barracks with the 2 or 3 LDS Servicemen in our branch (you see, it helps that the military can get their hands on basically any TV feed they want anywhere, and back then, rules were a little more lax on what it was used for Useful, that.) Not long afterward, our family got a satellite dish of our own, which in '85 meant a TEN-FOOT dish that actually swung 90 degrees to line up with actual satellite paths. Funny, with that old technology, we could get EVERY SINGLE game (with the help of a semi-legal descrambler ), whereas last year here in Virginia we managed just over half. GRRR!!! My two most triumphant childhood memories were at age 10 watching Ty Detmer's Miami win, and then at age 12 watching Kevin Nixon's half-court buzzer-beater to win the WAC Championship game. The living room was PANDELIRIUM, I tell you!

Well, me and my two brothers have graduated from the Y (our sister, the "black sheep," is currently enjoying the sandy beaches at BYUH), and my 10-month old son went to his first ever BYU Basketball game in January at Wake Forest (tough way to start, I grant you, oh well, it'll only get better!) And as you can see, he's already fully invested!