Paying off an Apple Cup loss

The Apple Cup rivalry is not limited to just the annual college football game between Washington State University and the university of washington, and as was witnessed during yesterday's ERCU Membership Meeting at the Red Dot Headquarters, the Elite Husky Racing Team paid up for losing this year's ERCU Apple Cup.

The ERCU Apple Cup is a friendly competition between the Elite Husky Racing Team (Ron Daum, Mark Gran, Scott Fetterly, Mark Hansen, Gary Hansen, Steve Twardus, and Doug Brow) and the Cougar Racing Team (Rick Lentz, Mick Shutt, Ron Hartley, Patrick Gleason, Bob VandenAkker, Brian Gilmore, and Nelson Holmberg), where the points from the best boat earned by each of the drivers are compiled into team totals, and the team with the most points over the course of the season, wins.

This year, Cougar Racing Team scored 46,912 points compared to the Elite Husky Racing Team's total of 33,016.

This year's payout was that the losing team was responsible to sing the winning team's fight song at the first member meeting of the year, and wear the winning team's hats throughout the entire meeting.

Only two members of the Husky team braved the meeting (Doug Brow had a legit excused absense), but Ron Daum and Mark Gran sported those very good looking hats for the entire meeting, and at the end, played the Cougar Fight Song on kazoos. Perhaps those who missed should make up their debt at a later meeting.

Research at WSU suggests that Huskies can only remember the words "Bow Down To Washington" when considering college fight songs, so playing the song on kazoos was perfectly appropriate.

There's even video of the kazoo performance!