title: Jimmy Olsen

text: In "Smallville", the series incarnation of Jimmy Olsen is first referenced in season 2 by Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack), when she refers to a "cute boy" whose "name is Jimmy", whom she met in Metropolis that made her forget all about Smallville for the summer. His name is first given in season 4 when Chloe confides to Lana Lang that he was her "first time". In season 6's premiere "Zod", Jimmy appears in person (portrayed by Aaron Ashmore) on the staff of the "Daily Planet" and prefers to be called "James", and frequently addresses Clark Kent as "CK". As season 6 progresses, Jimmy and Chloe rekindle their old romance again. At first, Jimmy is jealous of Clark but their relationship becomes friendly after Clark reunites him with Chloe in the season 6 episode "Trespass".


title: Jimmy Olsen

text: In season 7, Jimmy is still at the "Daily Planet" working as a budding news photographer, his relationship with Chloe is going through a rough phase due to Chloe's secret new-found ability caused by an amount of Kryptonite meteor in her bloodstream. They broke up in a very emotional scene in the episode "Cure" since Chloe was unable to share her secret with him. Meanwhile, Kara Zor-El (Laura Vandervoort), daughter of Zor-El and Clark's cousin, has developed a crush on Jimmy and they become friends. Jimmy is smitten by her and teams up with her in episodes such as "Cure" and "Lara". They are in a relationship briefly, but they break up and Jimmy is shown to be in a relationship again with Chloe in the episode "Sleeper". In the season finale, he proposed to her, but she was arrested before she had the time to answer.


title: Jimmy Olsen

text: In season 8's premiere "Odyssey", Jimmy is seen waiting for Chloe at the Talon. Chloe arrives and Jimmy tells her that he is taking his proposal back because it might risk what they have between them. But Chloe disagrees and reveals that she does love Jimmy and she will gladly be his wife. She kisses Jimmy passionately afterward. In "Committed", Jimmy admits to Chloe that he lied about his father being a Manhattan investment banker — his father is "a part-time mechanic and full-time alcoholic in Oklahoma City", and he has never even met his mother. He apologizes to Chloe for lying, feeling unworthy of her, but she easily forgives him and they kiss. In "Bride", Jimmy marries Chloe in the Kent barn, but the wedding reception is interrupted by Doomsday, who nearly kills Jimmy and kidnaps Chloe. Jimmy's injury is so critical that he must be taken to a hospital in Star City. In "Turbulence", Jimmy sees Davis Bloome (Doomsday's human form) murder a drunk driver and becomes almost violently obsessed with proving it. Davis convinces Chloe that Jimmy is hallucinating from high doses of painkillers, ultimately destroying Chloe and Jimmy's marriage and leaving Jimmy addicted to his pain medication. In season 8's finale "Doomsday", Jimmy finally reconciles with Chloe after learning Clark's secret and understanding that Chloe only stayed with Davis to calm the beast within and protect Clark. As Chloe gives Jimmy a passionate kiss, Jimmy is mortally wounded by a jealous Davis, who overhears their conversation and flies into a murderous rage despite being already stripped of the Doomsday persona. Jimmy manages to pushes Davis into a spike and kills him, and reaffirms love to Chloe before succumbing to injury. At his funeral, his full name is revealed to be Henry James Olsen. Chloe entrusts his camera to his underage younger brother (portrayed by Ryan Harder). While the younger Olsen's name is not mentioned, the boy is wearing a bow tie, leading to the possibility that "this" is the actual comic book Jimmy Olsen (James Bartholomew Olsen), who will befriend Superman.


title: Jimmy Olsen

text: In season 9 finale, Clark has a premonition about the future in 2013 where Lois Lane calls out to an "Olsen", likely calling the younger brother Olsen. In the season 10 episode "Homecoming", Clark accidentally time-travels to the future in 2017 (thanks to Brainiac 5) and reads a "Daily Planet" article that listed "Jimmy Olsen". In the ending scene of the series finale set seven years into the future, the adult version of the younger Olsen (also portrayed by Aaron Ashmore) makes an appearance as a fresh news photographer working with Lois and Clark at the "Daily Planet", wearing a flat cap, sweater vest, and bow tie.


title: Jimmy Olsen

text: The 2008 DVD box set for the seventh season of "Smallville" includes a 22-minute featurette, entitled "Jimmy on Jimmy", which is a round-table discussion featuring four of the six surviving actors at the time who had portrayed Jimmy Olsen in live action: Jack Larson ("Adventures of Superman"), Marc McClure ("Superman" film series, "Supergirl" film), Sam Huntington ("Superman Returns"), and Aaron Ashmore ("Smallville"). Michael Landes and Justin Whalin (both from "") did not participate.


title: Jimmy Olsen

text: Jimmy Olsen appears in the TV series set in the Arrowverse portrayed by Mehcad Brooks. Olsen appears in the series "Supergirl" as a former "Daily Planet" photographer who becomes the new art director at CatCo in the first episode. This depiction of the character is African-American and calls himself "James" rather than "Jimmy". Also unlike most versions of him, he is shown to be more confident, independent, and take-charge. In the pilot, Olsen reveals that he knows Kara's secret, and knows that she is Superman's cousin. Superman actually suggested that Olsen move to National City to keep an eye on her. Unlike his comic-book counterpart for most of his history, Olsen also knows Clark's secret. Olsen also revealed to have a tragic past; he lost his father to criminals when he was a child. Due to Olsen's repressed anger towards crimes because of his father's death and because his father was a war hero, he becomes the vigilante called Guardian. James is appointed head of CatCo in National City when Cat Grant moves to Metropolis. In the fifth season, CatCo is bought by Andrea Rojas's company Obsidian North. Exerting pressure as the new CEO, Andrea forces Olsen to report on stories based on profitability as opposed to truth. Olsen resigns and becomes editor of his hometown paper, The Calvintown Gazette.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Omar Ayuso (born 26 March 1998) is a Spanish actor. He is best known for his role as Omar Shanaa on the television series "Elite" (2018–present).


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Ayuso was born in Madrid on 26 March 1998 and raised in Manzanares el Real. After seeing "Bad Education" as a child, he became interested in becoming an actor or filmmaker. Ayuso studies audiovisual communication at the Charles III University of Madrid.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: In 2018, Ayuso was cast in the Spanish web television series "Elite" as Omar Shanaa, a closeted gay Muslim who develops a relationship with Ander Muñoz who is played by Arón Piper. In preparation for the role, Ayuso worked for two months with director Ramón Salazar to absorb his character's role.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: In 2019, Ayuso starred in three short films including "Maras’ de Salvador Calvo" and "Ráfagas de vida salvaje" by Jorge Cantos and "Disseminare" by Jools Beardon.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: In January 2020, Ayuso was featured in the music video of "Juro Que" by Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Ayuso plays the character, David, in the upcoming film, "8 Años", a gay drama where he reflects on an eight-year relationship.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Ayuso and Piper's onscreen relationship, coined "Omander", and offscreen friendship has generated a global following. , he had over four million followers on social media. The role has boosted LGBT visibility although Ayuso resists the notion that he serves as a role model. As a gay man, Ayuso has been the subject of homophobic commentary. He believes the widespread support for his onscreen relationship with Piper is due to it being easier for homophobic people to accept gay people in fiction rather than in real life.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Ayuso has had a transgressive image which includes provocative fashion choices in public appearances and social media posts.


title: Omar Ayuso

text: Ayuso has a tattoo of a flame and an eye on his hand inspired by Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo. He identifies as gay and has stated that he is proud of his generation's social progress on topics including feminism, LGBT rights and efforts against racism.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Duck Soup is a 1933 American pre-Code musical black comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, directed by Leo McCarey. Released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo in his final Marx Brothers’ movie) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy. It was the last of five Marx Brothers movies released by Paramount Pictures. Groucho plays the newly installed president of the mythical country of Freedonia. Zeppo is his secretary, while Harpo and Chico are Sylvanian spies. Relations between Groucho and the Sylvanian ambassador deteriorate during the film, and they go to war at the conclusion.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Compared to the Marx Brothers' previous films, "Duck Soup" was a box office disappointment, though not entirely a "flop" as is sometimes reported. The film opened to mixed reviews, although this by itself did not end the group's association with Paramount. Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened boycott by the Marxes soured their negotiations with Paramount just as "Duck Soup" went into production. After the film fulfilled their five-picture obligation to the studio, the Marxes and Paramount agreed to part ways.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: While contemporaneous critics of "Duck Soup" felt it did not quite rise to the level of its predecessors, critical opinion has evolved and the film has since achieved the status of a classic. "Duck Soup" is now widely considered among many critics and fans to be a masterpiece of comedy as well as the Marx Brothers' finest film.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: In 1990, the United States Library of Congress deemed "Duck Soup" "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The wealthy Mrs. Teasdale insists that Rufus T. Firefly be appointed leader of the small, financially struggling nation of Freedonia before she will continue to provide much-needed financial aid. Meanwhile, the neighboring country of Sylvania is scheming to annex Freedonia. Sylvanian ambassador Trentino tries to foment a revolution and court Mrs. Teasdale as he tries to dig up dirt on Firefly by sending in spies Chicolini and Pinky.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: After failing to collect any useful information against Firefly, Chicolini and Pinky are able to infiltrate the government when Chicolini is appointed Secretary of War after Firefly notices him selling peanuts outside his window. A short time later, Firefly's secretary, Bob Roland, tells Firefly he suspects Trentino's motives and he advises him to get rid of the thin-skinned Trentino by insulting him. Firefly agrees to the plan, but after a series of personal insults exchanged between Firefly and Trentino, the plan backfires when Firefly slaps Trentino instead of being slapped by him. As a result, the two countries come to the brink of war. Adding to the international friction is the fact that Firefly is also wooing Mrs. Teasdale, and, like Trentino, hoping to get his hands on her late husband's wealth.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Trentino learns from sexy spy Vera Marcal that Freedonia's plans of war are in Mrs. Teasdale's safe and he tells her to assist Chicolini and Pinky in stealing them. Chicolini is eventually caught by Firefly and put on trial, during which war is officially declared, and everyone is overcome by war frenzy, breaking into song and dance. Chicolini and Pinky join Firefly and Bob Roland in anarchic battle, resulting in general mayhem.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: After a fierce battle, the end of the film finds Trentino caught in a makeshift pillory, with the Brothers pelting him with fruit. Trentino surrenders, but Firefly tells him to wait until they run out of fruit. Mrs. Teasdale begins singing the Freedonia national anthem in her operatic voice and the Brothers begin hurling fruit at "her" instead.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Comparing the original scripts with the finished film, most of the characters' initial scripted names were later changed. Only the names of Chicolini and Mrs. Teasdale were kept. Groucho's character—originally named "Rufus T. "Firestone""—eventually became Rufus T. Firefly, while the name of Harpo's character—named Pinky in the final product—was given in the Paramount pressbook as "Brownie". "Ambassador Frankenstein of Amnesia" was quickly changed to Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania. Zeppo's character remained Firefly's son until very late in production, finally becoming Bob Roland, his secretary; also, Mrs Teasdale's niece "June Parker" transformed into Vera Marcal, first introduced as Trentino's "niece" before ultimately becoming his companion.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The Marx Brothers' previous film, "Horse Feathers", had been Paramount's highest-grossing film of 1932. Encouraged by this success, the studio suggested on August 2, 1932, that they rush out a follow-up. Already at this early stage, the story (provisionally entitled "Oo La La") was set in a mythical kingdom. On August 11, 1932, the "Los Angeles Times" reported that production would commence in five weeks with the famed Ernst Lubitsch directing.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: This was a turbulent time in the Marx Brothers' career. The Great Depression was raging and Paramount Pictures was attempting to stave off bankruptcy. A reorganization of the studio brought fears that money due the Marxes would never be paid; as a result, the Brothers threatened to leave Paramount and form their own company, Marx Bros., Inc. Their first planned independent production was a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "Of Thee I Sing", with Norman McLeod leaving Paramount to direct. During late 1932 and early 1933, Groucho and Chico were also working on "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel", a radio show written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman; there was even, at one time, talk of casting the two as their radio characters for the new film (an idea that was eventually used by Perrin in the 1941 Marx Brothers film "The Big Store").


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: By October 4, 1932, Arthur Sheekman, Harry Ruby, and Bert Kalmar began writing the screenplay for the next Paramount film, which was now called "Firecrackers". Herman Mankiewicz was to supervise production, beginning in January 1933. By December 1932, "Firecrackers" had become "Cracked Ice". Grover Jones was also reported to have contributed to the first draft by Ruby and Kalmar. In "The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia", Glenn Mitchell says that "the first script's content is difficult to determine".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: On January 18, 1933, Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar and Grover Jones submitted to Paramount their "Second Temporary Script" for "Cracked Ice", and Paramount announced that shooting would commence on February 15. This script shows that the basic plot of "Duck Soup" was in place. In February, Paramount announced that the title had been changed to "Grasshoppers" ("because animal stories are so popular"), and that filming was set back to February 20.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: However, on May 11, 1933, the Marx Brothers' father Sam "Frenchie" Marx died in Los Angeles, and shortly afterward the contract dispute with Paramount was settled. The "New York Post" reported on May 17 that the Brothers would make a new comedy for Paramount, called "Duck Soup". Leo McCarey was set for direction of the film. Three days later "The New York Sun" reported that "Duck Soup" would start filming in June. "Duck Soup"s script was completed by July 11. The script was a continuation of Ruby and Kalmar's "Firecrackers"/"Cracked Ice" drafts, but contained more elements. Many of the film's clever gags and routines were lifted from "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel", giving Perrin and Sheekman an "additional dialogue" credit.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Director McCarey reportedly came up with the title for the film, having previously used it for an earlier directorial effort with Laurel and Hardy. This continued the "animal" titles of the Brothers' previous three films, "Animal Crackers", "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: "Duck soup" was American English slang at that time; it meant something easy to do. Conversely, "to duck something" meant to avoid it. When Groucho was asked for an explanation of the title, he quipped, "Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life."


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: McCarey also thought up "the very Laurel & Hardy-like sequence in which Harpo and Chico stage a break-in at Mrs Teasdale's house." Another McCarey contribution was the "mirror scene", a revival of an old Marx Brothers vaudeville act.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: In the "mirror scene", Pinky, dressed as Firefly, pretends to be Firefly's reflection in a missing mirror, matching his every move—including absurd ones that begin out of sight—to near perfection. In one particularly surreal moment, the two men swap positions, introducing the question of which is the reflection. Eventually, and to their misfortune, Chicolini, also disguised as Firefly, enters the frame and collides with both of them.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Although its appearance in "Duck Soup" is the best known instance, the concept of the mirror scene did not originate in this film. Harold Lloyd used essentially the same routine in his short "The Marathon" (1919). Max Linder included it in "Seven Years Bad Luck" (1921), where a man's servants have accidentally broken a mirror and attempt to hide the fact by imitating his actions in the mirror's frame. Charlie Chaplin used a similar joke in "The Floorwalker" (1916), though it did not involve a mirror.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: This scene has been imitated many times; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hare Tonic", the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Lonesome Ghosts", "The Square Peg" (1959), "The Pink Panther" (1963), the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Cat and Dupli-cat" (1967), "Big Business" (1988), X-Files episode "Dreamland" (1998), "" (2006) and the Family Guy episode "Road to Germany". Harpo himself did a reprise of this scene, dressed in his usual costume, with Lucille Ball also donning the fright wig and trench coat, in the "I Love Lucy" episode "Lucy and Harpo Marx".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The climactic production number ridicules war by comparing nationalism to a minstrel show. One segment is a variant on the old Negro spiritual "All God's Chillun Got Wings" (and was reportedly considered for deletion for the film's DVD release, for fear of offending African Americans):


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Another repeated gag involved Harpo, who drives a motorcycle with a sidecar, as a chauffeur, to transport Groucho. Twice, after Groucho gives the orders to Harpo, Harpo rides his motorcycle away, leaving Groucho stranded in the sidecar. Later, Groucho has Harpo sit in the sidecar, while Groucho gets on the motorcycle, the sidecar, with Harpo in it, rides off away, again, leaving Groucho stranded.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Shortly after, during the final battle scenes, "rightfully [...] called the funniest of all of cinema", Firefly can be seen wearing a different costume in almost every sequence until the end of the film, including American Civil War uniforms (first Union and then Confederate), a British palace guard uniform, a Boy Scout Scoutmaster's uniform, and even a Davy Crockett coonskin cap. Meanwhile, the exterior view of the building they are occupying changes appearance from a bunker to an old fort, etc. Firefly assures his generals that he has "a man out combing the countryside for volunteers." Sure enough, Pinky is wandering out on the front lines wearing a sandwich board sign reading, "Join the Army and see the Navy." Later, Chicolini volunteers Pinky to carry a message through enemy lines; Firefly tells him, "[...] and remember, while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker "you" are." Thomas Doherty has described this line as "sum[ming] up the Great War cynicism towards all things patriotic".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The melodramatic exclamation "This means war!" certainly did not originate with "Duck Soup", but it is used several times in the film—at least twice by Trentino and once by Firefly—and was repeated by Groucho in "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races". Variations of this phrase later became a frequently used catch-phrase for Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny in Warner Bros. cartoons.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: In another scene, the film pokes fun at the Hays Code. Due to the code, a man and woman could not be shown in bed together. The camera begins the scene in a woman's bedroom, panning across the foot of the bed. A pair of men's shoes are shown on the floor, then a pair of women's shoes and then four horseshoes. The camera cuts to a shot of the entire room: Pinky is sleeping in one bed with the horse, while the woman is in another bed.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Prosecutor: Chicolini, isn't it true you sold Freedonia's secret war code and plans?Chicolini: Sure! I sold a code and two pairs o' plans!


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The street vendor confrontations are also well-remembered pieces of physical comedy: Chico and Harpo harass a lemonade seller (comedy film veteran Edgar Kennedy), egged on by his irritation that they have stolen his pitch.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: First, there is a scene involving the knocking off, dropping, picking up and exchanging of hats. Later, Kennedy (a much larger man) steals bags of Harpo's peanuts, and Harpo responds by burning Kennedy's new straw boater hat; in return, Kennedy pushes over their peanut wagon. Harpo responds by stepping knee-deep into Kennedy's lemonade tank, where he imitates a stereotypical Italian grape-crushing peasant; this drives off Kennedy's waiting line of customers.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Just before the Mirror Scene is the Radio Scene. Harpo tries the combination to the safe on a box which proves to be a radio, and it starts blaring the break-up strain of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever". The music continues despite frantic efforts to silence, and finally destroy, the radio, by throwing it out the window, shattering the glass.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Harpo often doffed his hat on-screen, but Chico very rarely removed his Tyrolean hat, even when indoors. For a few seconds on-screen in the earlier scene, Chico's head is uncovered, revealing a wavy wig. Chico had already started going bald when the brothers appeared in their first Broadway production, "I'll Say She Is", in 1924. All of the Brothers' natural receding-hairline patterns were similar, but Harpo and Chico covered theirs with wigs (Groucho later sported an obvious toupee in the films "At The Circus" and "Go West").


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Breaking with their usual pattern, neither Harpo's harp nor Chico's piano is used in the film, although Harpo briefly pretends to play harp on the strings of a piano, strumming chords in accompaniment to a duck-shaped music box that is playing.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The musical introduction to Groucho's character is similar to those in "Animal Crackers" and "Horse Feathers" but it did not become closely associated with him as did "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" from "Animal Crackers".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Zeppo, playing according to James Agee "a peerlessly cheesy improvement on the traditional straight man", sings with the group, including soloing the first few lines of the first song, "When the Clock on the Wall Strikes 10". He also sings with the others in "Freedonia's Going to War", filling out the four-cornered symmetry as the Brothers sing and dance in pairs during the number.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The "Freedonia National Anthem" is used frequently throughout the film, both as vocal and instrumental; the entire song seems to consist of "Hail, Hail, Freedonia, land of the brave and free", contrasting with the final line of "The Star-Spangled Banner". The "Sylvania theme", which sounds vaguely like "Rule, Britannia!", is also used several times. "When The Clock On The Wall Strikes 10", the first musical number in the film, is part of the same scene as "Just Wait 'Til I Get Through With It", Groucho's song about the laws of his administration. "This Country's Going To War" is the final musical ensemble in the film. Technically it is the only musical number in the Marx Brothers' films to feature all four of the brothers. However, in "Monkey Business", Chico briefly bangs on the piano while the other three play saxophones while eluding their pursuers on an ocean liner.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The introductory scene, showing ducks swimming in a kettle and quacking merrily, is scored with an instrumental medley of the aforementioned songs, and it is also the only scene in the film that has to do with ducks and soup.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: "Duck Soup" was not a box office failure. Although it did not do as well as "Horse Feathers", it was the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1933, according to Glenn Mitchell in "The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia" and Simon Louvish in "Monkey Business", his biography of the Marx Brothers. However the film was a box office disappointment for Paramount.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: One possible reason for the film's lukewarm reception is that it was released during the Great Depression. Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery, and cynicism at a time of economic and political crisis. Film scholar Leonard Maltin had this to say in his book "The Great Movie Comedians":


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: As wonderful as "Monkey Business", "Horse Feathers", and "Duck Soup" seem today, some critics and moviegoers found them unpleasant and longed for the more orderly world of "The Cocoanuts" with its musical banalities. [...] Many right-thinkers laughed themselves silly in 1933—but a large number didn't. [...] The unrelieved assault of Marxian comedy was simply too much for some people.


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text: Years later, Groucho's son Arthur Marx described Irving Thalberg's assessment of the film's purported failure during a National Public Radio interview:


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text: [Thalberg] said the trouble with "Duck Soup" is you've got funny gags in it, but there's no story and there's nothing to root for. You can't root for the Marx Brothers because they're a bunch of zany kooks. [Thalberg] says, "You gotta put a love story in your movie so there'll be something to root for, and you have to help the lovers get together."


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Most critics at the time disliked it because of its "dated" look at politics. Some modern critics are also unimpressed. Christopher Null believes, "the send-up of Mussolini-types doesn't quite pan out. Take the comedy, leave the story."


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Even Groucho himself did not initially think too highly of the film. When asked the significance of the film's politics, Groucho only shrugged and said: "What significance? We were just four Jews trying to get a laugh." Nevertheless, the Brothers were ecstatic when Benito Mussolini took the film as a personal insult and banned it in Italy. Also, the residents of Fredonia, New York, protested because they feared that the similar-sounding nation would hurt their city's reputation. The Marx Brothers quipped in response, telling them to change the name of their town to keep from hurting their movie.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: Despite the tepid critical response at the time, "Duck Soup" is now seen as a classic political farce. Film critic Danel Griffin believes that "Duck Soup" is "on par with other war comedies like Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove", only slightly more unnerving in that "Duck Soup" doesn't seem to realize it is anything more than innocent fluff." Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believed, "The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but "Duck Soup" is probably the best." British film critic Barry Norman was slightly cautious about the Marx Brothers overall, but considered "Duck Soup" their best and included it in his 100 best films of the 20th century.


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text: Revived interest in the film (and other 1930s comedies in general) during the 1960s was seen as dovetailing with the rebellious side of American culture in that decade. American literary critic Harold Bloom considers the end of "Duck Soup" one of the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century.


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: In 1990, "Duck Soup" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2000, readers of "Total Film" magazine voted "Duck Soup" the 29th greatest comedy film of all time. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 91% "Certified Fresh" rating based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The site' consensus reads, "Fueled by inspired silliness and blessed with some of the Marx brothers' most brilliant work, "Duck Soup" is one of its – or any – era's finest comedies". It is also one of the earliest films to appear on Roger Ebert's list of "The Great Movies".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The United States Library of Congress has added "Duck Soup" to the National Film Registry, and the film was included in both the original (1998) broadcast of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies and the 2007 update.


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text: Another testament to "Duck Soup"s legacy is its influence on Woody Allen films. Near the end of Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), a chance screening of "Duck Soup" convinces Allen's character that life is still worth living, and he abandons his suicidal impulses. His earlier "Bananas" (1971), a film chronicling the humorous rise of an unlikely dictator, has been dubbed a "spiritual sequel to "Duck Soup"."


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text: "Duck Soup" is also frequently cited as a major influence of the comedic side of The Beatles, and The Beatles themselves admitted that it was an inspiration for their film "Help!"


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: This Marx Brothers' production had influence as well on the world of animation, with homages to the film appearing in various animated television series. It was spoofed in "Animaniacs" as the full-episode sketch "King Yakko". One specific gag from the original, the constant singing of the Freedonian national anthem, was spoofed in particular with a Perry Como caricature. Groucho's entrance in the film was borrowed in another "Animaniacs" cartoon, "The Three Muska-Warners".


title: Duck Soup (1933 film)

text: The film also inspired parts of Sacha Baron Cohen's film "The Dictator" (2012). A critic for "The A.V. Club" noted that "Admiral General Aladeen and Rufus T. Firefly share the same bloodline, representing a more generalized contempt for world leaders of any stripe, whether they don a 'supreme beard' or a greasepaint moustache." The "Nashville Scene" detected "an echo here of that funniest of xenophobe-baiting funnies, "Duck Soup"." The "Rolling Stone" claimed that Baron Cohen's film "dodges soothing convention and ultimately merits comparisons to The Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" and Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".


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text: The company FASA, which publishes role-playing games, derives its name from an imaginary Freedonian version of NASA, the "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration".


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text: Universal Home Video released "Duck Soup" on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set "The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection", which includes also the Brothers' other Paramount films, "The Cocoanuts", "Animal Crackers", "Monkey Business", and "Horse Feathers". Reviewing the set, film critic Mark Bourne writes:


title: Neck Deep

text: Neck Deep are a Welsh pop punk band from Wrexham, Wales formed in 2012. Founded after vocalist Ben Barlow met former lead guitarist Lloyd Roberts, the pair posted a song ("What Did You Expect?") online under the name Neck Deep. The song soon gained attention online, resulting in the addition of rhythm guitarist Matt West, drummer Dani Washington/Abasi, and bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans. They released a pair of EPs, "Rain in July" (2012) and "A History of Bad Decisions" (2013), both recorded by Barlow's older brother, before signing with Hopeless in August 2013.


title: Neck Deep

text: Following the release of their debut album "Wishful Thinking" in January 2014, the band became a full-time project, with the band members leaving their jobs and/or dropping out of university courses. Shortly after the release of their second album "Life's Not out to Get You" in August 2015, Roberts left the band due to allegations of sexual misconduct (which he was subsequently found to have no case to answer), and Sam Bowden (formerly of Climates and Blood Youth) joined in his place. The group's third album "The Peace and the Panic" was released August 2017, and debuted at #4 on the US "Billboard" 200. In September 2018, Thorpe-Evans left the band to pursue a solo career as a producer. In 2019, the band embarked in a summer tour with Blink-182 as the opening act. By February 2020, the band added longtime collaborator and bassist Seb Barlow as an official member, plus later that month revealed an app with all sorts of multimedia regarding the announcement of their fourth album, titled "All Distortions Are Intentional", released 24 July.


title: Neck Deep

text: Vocalist Ben Barlow met lead guitarist Lloyd Roberts when Barlow's older brother, Seb, was recording the Wrexham hardcore band Spires that Roberts played in. At the time, Ben Barlow wrote pop punk songs on his own for fun. On 19 April 2012 the duo posted the song "What Did You Expect?" online under the name Neck Deep. According to Roberts, Barlow "literally said, 'What about Neck Deep [as the band name]?' and that was that." The name comes from the Crucial Dudes' song "Boom, Roasted". "What Did You Expect?" soon gained attention online. This resulted in the duo adding guitarist Matt West, who also played in Spires, and drummer Dani Washington, who was aware of Wrexham's local music scene. Bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans joined shortly after leaving Lincoln melodic hardcore band Climates. "I Couldn't Wait to Leave 6 Months Ago " was posted online on 8 June. On 11 June, it was announced the band had signed to US label We Are Triumphant. The band recorded more songs with Seb Barlow in the attic of Ben's home.


title: Neck Deep

text: The band released an EP, "Rain in July", in September 2012, which gained the band even more attention from people. According to Barlow, "People took notice and demanded that we play shows." The band supported With the Punches and Me Vs Hero in the UK in December. 3 December date of tour was the band's live debut. At their second show the band signed with a manager. The band toured the UK supporting Hacktivist in February 2013. Also in February the band released the "A History of Bad Decisions" EP as a "pay what you want" download. The band and their tour manager went on a holiday to Florida. The group ended up playing two shows that were "crazy and sold out and packed", according to Thorpe-Evans. Videos of the shows ended up online, which were seen by Hopeless Records. Hopeless got in contact with the band's manager who put the label in contact with the band. The band signed to Hopeless in August 2013. Being signed to the label was "a dream come true" for the band.


title: Neck Deep

text: The band released their debut album, "Wishful Thinking", on 14 January 2014. Up until this point, the band was a "fun, part-time [entity]", according to Barlow. With the release of the album, the band became a full-time thing, according to Barlow: "Fuck it, let's do this properly". The success of the album resulted in Thorpe-Evans, West and Roberts quitting their jobs, Washington turning down a place at the Academy of Contemporary Music and Barlow dropping out of university. Following the release of "Wishful Thinking", Neck Deep began 2014 with a full UK headline tour and also toured the UK as the main support for We Are the in Crowd, before a headline tour covering the US with Knuckle Puck, Light Years and Misguided by Giants. The band were announced to perform on 2014 edition of Vans Warped Tour. The band's two EPs were remixed and remastered as part of the compilation "Rain in July / A History of Bad Decisions", released on Hopeless on 17 June. It was released to capitalise on the band's popularity at the time. Barlow said that this compilation would be "definitive release of [these] songs". The band hoped that the new fans that enjoyed "Wishful Thinking" "will enjoy the chance to check these songs out now that we've had a chance to improve how they sound!" The band won the Kerrang! Award for Best British Newcomer 2014, beating nominees Blitz Kids, Bury Tomorrow, Lonely the Brave, and Decade. The band headlined the Intercontinental Championships Tour, along with Knuckle Puck (USA), Seaway (Canada) and Trophy Eyes (Australia), and touring the UK. The tour was set to start January 2015 and run through February. As of late 2014, they have entered the studio with producers Andrew Wade and Jeremy McKinnon to record their second album.


title: Neck Deep

text: On 27 April 2015 the band made a post on their Facebook page consisting of nothing more than "Can't Kick Up the Roots. 12.05.15". This post turned out to be a song and the release date of 12 May. A few days later on 4 May, the band made another Facebook post stating the name of their new album, "Life's Not out to Get You". The release date of this album was 14 August. On 10 May, "Can't Kick Up the Roots" was premiered on UK radio station BBC Radio 1 and was met with much praise by fans, with the band then stating that the song's music video and pre-orders for the album would be available on 12 May. The band played all dates of the 2015 edition of Vans Warped Tour. On 19 July, "Gold Steps" was premiered live on Daniel P. Carter's BBC Radio 1 rock show. The album made No.10 on Billboard's Top Album Sales list, and the band made No. 67 on the Artist 100 list.


title: Neck Deep

text: On 22 August 2015, allegations of sexual misconduct against guitarist Lloyd Roberts were made, in which Roberts was accused of sending inappropriate photos to an underage girl. Roberts denied these allegations. The band responded that they were aware of the situation and asked for "a moment to get to the bottom of this." One day later, they clarified that Roberts would be "stepping down" from his position in the band as he did not want to tarnish the band's reputation as a result of these allegations. He states, "I’m now looking to put this horrendous chapter in my life behind me as I instead look forward to the future. For me, that means doing the one thing I love the most – writing and recording music." On 13 October 2015, Roberts released a statement which explained that the police had cleared him of all charges, stating that they "found no case" to back up the allegations made against him. In the same statement, Roberts hinted that there are no plans for him to return to the band. On 17 December 2015, Sam Bowden, of Climates and Blood Youth, officially joined the band as their new lead guitarist.


title: Neck Deep

text: On 27 June 2016, the band began writing new material for the band's third album. They began working on the album in the studio eight months after writing the band's new music on 21 February 2017. On 15 January 2017, the band's vocalist, Ben Barlow, stated that a band should always show progression in its music and they are certainly aware that is what they want to do in the band's third album. In an interview with the lead singer, Barlow explains how his father's passing influenced his motivation for writing Neck Deep's most recent album. Ben connects his father's death and the album by stating, "It's definitely opened my mind up creatively, it's gonna be a little ball of inspiration that I can kind of pick at, I guess." On 5 April 2017, the band finished the album and was set to release it on 18 August of the same year. On 21 May Neck Deep released two new songs along with music videos for them. "Where Do We Go When We Go" and "Happy Judgement Day". It was also announced the band worked with Neal Avron and Mike Green on their new album. The band's lead singer, Ben Barlow was quoted saying to Alternative Press "The Peace and the Panic is about how we’ve grown up and experienced life in the last couple of years.". He also commented on two of the new tracks on the album, including the track "Happy Judgement Day" of which Barlow commented, ". .is on the panic side, and really, that song is a comment on the current social and political climate.". He also stated "Where Do We Go When We Go" is the last track on the record, and we feel it summarises our mood well. Very directly, the message is: "Fuck all this shit, fuck all the noise, let’s just make something of ourselves before our time is up."


title: Neck Deep

text: On 5 July 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina, the band gained attention on Warped Tour when the members were reportedly under police lockdown due to a fatal shooting outside the bar they were in. The bassist of the band, Fil Thorpe-Evans, tweeted, "FYI last night a few of us were in a bar police lock down because there was a fatal shooting literally outside. Had to hide behind the bar". None of the band members were injured as the scene calmed down upon the arrival of the police.


title: Neck Deep

text: Members of the band performed a DJ set at Emo Nite Day hosted by Emo Nite in Los Angeles in December 2017.


title: Neck Deep

text: On 4 September 2018, bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans announced the departure from the band. He said that Neck Deep has been a dream coming true but he wanted to pursue his career as a producer.


title: Neck Deep

text: The band released a new single entitled 'She's a God' on 27 June 2019 with new bassist Joshua Halling, who was previously the band's touring photographer. The band spent the summer of that year touring as support for Blink-182 and Lil Wayne. Wayne threatened to quit the tour due to the size of the crowds, saying "Please forgive me but I am so not used to performing to a crowd … and there’s not too many … that’s not my swag," he admitted. "I’m not sure how long I’m going to be able to do this tour, but make some noise for Blink-182 for including me anyway. This might be my last night, though. Let’s go!". Lil Wayne ended up confirming he was staying with Neck Deep and Blink-182 for the remainder of the tour, tweeting "I’m having too much fun with my bros blink-182."


title: Neck Deep

text: In February 2020, Ben's brother Seb officially joined the band as bassist, after having been involved behind the scenes since day one. He replaced Joshua Halling who returned to being the band's photographer. However, Halling recorded all bass tracks on the upcoming album. On the same day, they unveiled the Neck Deep app, which features photos, videos, tour dates, and announcements. A header image reading "You are invited to Sonderland" with the dates 28/02/20 - 29/02/20 is featured prominently. Their tour will be in the U.K. and in the United States throughout 2020 with their new album, "All Distortions Are Intentional" being released on 24 July.


title: Neck Deep

text: On 10 May 2022, longtime drummer Dani Washington announced via the band's social media pages that he would be parting ways with the band after 10 years to pursue other ventures.


title: Neck Deep

text: Neck Deep is a pop punk band. Their sound has been described as being reminiscent of Blink-182, New Found Glory, The Wonder Years, Green Day, and the Descendents. Vocalist Ben Barlow has stated A Day to Remember and Architects as a massive influence on the band. The early Fall Out Boy work and Sum 41 have also been cited as influences.


title: Neck Deep

text: Neck Deep has had two "Music Kits" included in "." The "Life's Not Out to Get You" music kit was released on 8 November 2016, and "The Lowlife Pack" music kit was released on 18 March 2021. "The Lowlife Pack" music kit includes selections from All Distortions are Intentional.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: The Pinnacle is a professional wrestling stable formed in the professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The group, which was formed in March 2021, consists of FTR (Dax Harwood) and (Cash Wheeler), Shawn Spears, and Wardlow. The group's original incarnation was lead by Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) and also had Tully Blanchard as a manager.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: In March 2022, Wardlow would leave the group after betraying MJF, Blanchard left after being fired by FTR, and FTR themselves would quietly end their association with the team. After quietly disbanding in June 2022, the group reformed in October without Friedman and Blanchard.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: During the early days of AEW, Tully Blanchard joined the company as the on-screen manager of Shawn Spears. He later took a hiatus due to COVID-19, but return a few months later in Spears's corner, as well as that of the tag team FTR, the latter of which has received a lot of comparisons with Blanchard's former tag team with fellow Four Horseman stablemate Arn Anderson, The Brain Busters. However, FTR and Spears never appeared on-screen together despite it being acknowledged that Blanchard was managing both.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: Starting in late 2020, Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) was seeking to join The Inner Circle, another stable in AEW led by Chris Jericho. Jericho agreed to allow MJF to join the stable if he beat him in a match at that year's Full Gear, broadcast on November 7. MJF beat Jericho and was subsequently inducted into The Inner Circle along with his bodyguard, Wardlow. MJF competed as a member of the stable for the next several months, during which time there were suspicions that he was planning some sort of takeover of the stable, meeting privately with fellow team members Jake Hager, Santana and Ortiz. On the February 10, 2021 episode of AEW Dynamite, Sammy Guevara left the faction following a confrontation with MJF.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: On the "Dynamite" episode "The Crossroads" (aired March 3), Spears and FTR were united on screen with Blanchard for the first time with former Four Horseman manager J. J. Dillon making a guest appearance; likewise, Arn Anderson (who was serving as the "coach" of Cody Rhodes) came out and acknowledged the group with everyone putting up the signature Four Horseman hand signal. At Revolution (aired March 7), the tag team of MJF and Jericho failed to beat The Young Bucks for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, following which, Jericho announced a "War Council", where The Inner Circle members would discuss the future of the stable. At the War Council, Guevara returned to the group and it was revealed that MJF had been planning a coup. However, after the other members of the group revealed that they were still loyal to Jericho, MJF announced that he was actually building his own stable. Following this reveal, the lights went out in the arena, and when they came back on, Tully Blanchard, Dax Harwood, Shawn Spears, Wardlow, and Cash Wheeler had appeared in the ring and subsequently beat up the members of The Inner Circle.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: The faction was formally introduced on the March 17 episode of Dynamite, with MJF and Blanchard announcing that the stable would be known as The Pinnacle. The previous day, AEW had filed to trademark the name of the stable. During the announcement, Blanchard recounted how, during his time as part of The Four Horsemen stable, he felt like he was at "the pinnacle" of wrestling, explaining that the new stable was similarly "at the pinnacle of this sport".


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: At AEW Blood and Guts, the Pinnacle defeated the Inner Circle in a Blood and Guts match, after Inner Circle member Sammy Guevara surrendered.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: At AEW Double or Nothing however, the Pinnacle were defeated by the Inner Circle in a Stadium Stampede match. If the Pinnacle had defeated the Inner Circle, the whole team would have to disband.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: Throughout early 2022, signs of tension between Wardlow and the Pinnacle (primarily MJF, who Wardlow was contracted to, and Shawn Spears) would appear, as Wardlow began to exhibit babyface tendencies in singles matches, garnering support from the fanbase, while showing discomfort with some of MJF's actions. This culminated at Revolution during MJF's match with CM Punk, where he refused to assist MJF, feigning the misplacement of the Dynamite Diamond Ring, and instead gave it to Punk, cementing his face turn. His dissociation from the group was confirmed on the March 9 episode of Dynamite. On the same episode, FTR also kicked Tully Blanchard out of the group, after an argument during a backstage segment.


title: The Pinnacle (professional wrestling)

text: In August 2022, FTR and Wardlow reunited one time only for a trios match, using The Pinnacle name. FTR and Wardlow started a feud with Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, and Satnam Singh. The two trios met in a match at All Out (2022) with FTR and Wardlow picking up the win. Shawn Spears re-joined The Pinnacle on the October 12, 2022 episode of Dynamite after a five month hiatus from appearing at AEW events. Spears returned using his “Perfect 10” gimmick, which he used in his time in WWE as Tye Dillinger.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: The Washington Huskies football team represents the University of Washington in college football. Washington competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Husky Stadium, located on campus, has served as the home field for Washington since 1920.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington has won 17 conference championships, seven Rose Bowls, and claims two national championships recognized by NCAA-designated major selectors. Of these however, Washington's only consensus national championship was in 1991, when the team finished No. 1 in the Coaches' Poll.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: The school's all-time record ranks 20th by win percentage and 19th by total victories among FBS schools as of 2018. Washington holds the FBS record for the longest unbeaten streak at 64 consecutive games, as well as the second-longest winning streak at 40 wins in a row. There have been a total of 12 unbeaten seasons in school history, including seven perfect seasons.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington is one of four charter members of what became the Pac-12 Conference and, along with California, is one of only two schools with uninterrupted membership. From 1977 through 2003, Washington had 27 consecutive non-losing seasons—the most of any team in the Pac-12 and the 14th longest streak by an NCAA Division I-A team. Through the 2017 season, its 390 conference victories rank second in conference history.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington is often referred to as one of the top Quarterback U's due to the long history of quarterbacks playing in the National Football League (NFL), including the second-most QB starts in NFL history. Dating back to Warren Moon in 1976, 14 of the last 19 quarterbacks who have led the team in passing for at least one season have gone on to play in the NFL.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Ten different men served as Washington head coaches during the first 18 seasons. While still an independent, the team progressed from playing 1 to 2 games per season to 10 matches per season as the sport grew in popularity. The school initially used a variety of locations for its home field. Home attendance grew from a few hundred to a few thousand per home game, with on-campus Denny Field becoming home from 1895 onward. The 1900 team played in-state rival Washington State College to a 5–5 tie, in the first game in the annual contest later known as the Apple Cup.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Gil Dobie left North Dakota Agricultural and became Washington's head coach in 1908. Dobie coached for nine remarkable seasons at Washington, posting a 58–0–3 record. Dobie's career comprised virtually all of Washington's NCAA all-time longest 64-game unbeaten streak (outscoring opponents 1930–118) and included a 40-game winning streak, second longest in NCAA Division I-A/FBS history. In 1916, Washington and three other schools formed the Pacific Coast Conference, predecessor to the modern Pac-12 Conference. In Dobie's final season at Washington, his 1916 team won the PCC's inaugural conference championship. Dobie was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a charter member.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Following Dobie's tenure, Washington turned to a succession of coaches with mixed results. Claude J. Hunt (1917, 1919) went a cumulative 6–3–1 highlighted by the school's second PCC championship in 1919, Tony Savage (1918) 1–1, and Stub Allison (1920) 1–5.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: This era concluded with the team's move from Denny Field to its permanent home field of Husky Stadium in 1920. Washington athletics adopted the nickname of "Sun Dodgers" in 1920 and used it until 1921, before becoming the "Huskies" from 1922 onward.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Enoch Bagshaw graduated from Washington in 1907 as the school's first five-year letterman in football history. After leading Everett High School from 1909 to 1920, including consecutive national championships in 1919 and 1920, Bagshaw returned to Washington as the first former player turned head coach in 1921, ultimately overseeing the program's second period of sustained success.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Bagshaw's tenure was marked by 63–22–6 record and the school's first two Rose Bowl berths, resulting in a 14–14 tie against Navy in the 1924 Rose Bowl and a 19–20 loss to Alabama in the 1926 Rose Bowl. His 1925 team won the school's third PCC championship. Bagshaw left the program after his 1929 team had a losing season, only the second such season in his tenure. Bagshaw died the following year at the age of 46.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: James Phelan succeeded Bagshaw for the 1930 season. The Notre Dame graduate guided the Huskies to a 65–37–8 record over 12 seasons. His 1936 team won the school's fourth PCC championship, but lost in the 1937 Rose Bowl to Pittsburgh 0–21. Phelan guided the Huskies to their first bowl game victory, beating Hawaii 53–13 in the 1938 Poi Bowl. In later years, he became the first former Husky head coach to take the same role in professional football. Phelan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Following Phelan, Washington fielded a succession of teams under four coaches without either great success, or failure. Washington participated in one bowl game and tallied no conference championships during this period with an overall record of 65–68–7.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Ralph Welch played at Purdue under head coach James Phelan, whom he followed to Washington to become an assistant coach in 1930. In 1942, Welch was promoted to succeed Phelan as Washington's head coach and served until 1947, compiling a record of 27–20–3. World War II limited both the 1943 and 1944 seasons of the PCC, reducing team participation from ten team down to just four. Welch's 1943 team accepted the school's third Rose Bowl bid, but lost to PCC champion USC 0–29 in the 1944 Rose Bowl. Welch's first five teams all fielded winning records, but final 1947 team did not.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Howard Odell joined Washington in 1948 from Yale. In his five seasons from 1948 to 1952, he compiled a record of 23–25–2 with two winning seasons.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: John Cherberg, a Washington player and then assistant from 1946 to 1952, became head coach in 1953. He compiled a 10–18–2 record from 1953 to 1955, before being removed due to a payoff scandal. Cherberg went on to become Washington state's longest serving Lieutenant Governor, from 1957 until his death in 1989.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Darrell Royal was retained and led the 1956 team to a 5–5 record, before leaving to coach at Texas where he won three national championships, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983, and had the school's football stadium renamed in his honor as Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: In 1957, Jim Owens came to Washington after stints as an assistant with Paul "Bear" Bryant at Kentucky and Texas A&M. According to legend, after the 1956 season, when the Huskies were looking for a head coach, Bryant indicated to reporters that Owens "will make a great coach for somebody some day." Over 18 seasons, Owens would compile a 99–82–6 record.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: After a pair of unremarkable initial seasons, Owens led his 1959, 1960, and 1963 teams to three AAWU championships and associated Rose Bowl berths: a 1960 Rose Bowl 44–8 win over Wisconsin, a 1961 Rose Bowl 17–7 win over Minnesota, and a 7–17 loss to Illinois in the 1964 Rose Bowl. The Helms Athletic Foundation named the 1960 team the national champions, the school's first such title in football.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Owens' later teams would never match this level of success, partly owing to a conference prevention of a second bowl team representative until 1975. Owens concurrently served as the athletic director at Washington from 1960 to 1969. Owens resigned as head coach of the Huskies following the 1974 season, as the Pac-8's third winningest coach of all-time. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1982.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Don James came to Washington from Kent State. During his 18-year tenure, James' Huskies won four Rose Bowls and one Orange Bowl. His dominating 1991 Washington Huskies finished a perfect 12-0 season and shared the national championship with Miami.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: The Huskies won 22 consecutive games from 1990–1992. James' record with the Huskies was 153–57–2. James won national coach of the year honors in 1977, 1984 and 1991 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. Sports columnists and football experts have recognized the 1991 Washington Huskies among the top 10 college football teams of all time.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: During the 1992 season, it was revealed that several of James' players received improper benefits from boosters. The Huskies received sanctions from both the NCAA and then Pacific-10 Conference. Although James and his staff were not personally implicated in any violation, James resigned on August 22, 1993 in protest of the harsh sanctions the Pac-10 imposed on top of the NCAA's sanctions against his team. Though then University President William Gerberding and then Athletic Director Barbara Hedges had presented James the final list of penalties that all Pac-10 parties had agreed best for the football program and athletics, Gerberding argued in favor of altering the penalties against the program from a two-year TV revenue ban and one-year bowl ban, to a one-year TV revenue ban and two-year bowl ban.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: In a 2006 interview with columnist Blaine Newnham of The Seattle Times, Don James said his resignation from head coaching "probably saved his life". According to those who knew him, Don James was a great leader, a coach of character, a man of honor and integrity.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Don James died on October 20, 2013, at the age of 80. A week later, the Huskies honored James during the game against California, which they won 41-17. On October 27, 2017, when the University of Washington unveiled a bronze statue of the legendary coach in the northwest plaza of Husky Stadium, "the Dawgfather" finally returned home.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Jim Lambright was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach following the sudden resignation by Don James. Lambright led the Huskies to four bowl appearances in his six seasons. Despite these bowl appearances and a 44–25–1 overall record, Lambright was fired by athletic director Barbara Hedges following the 1998 season after going 6–6.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Rick Neuheisel was hired away from Colorado to take over as the Huskies' head football coach. During his tenure, the Huskies went 33–16, highlighted by a victory in the 2001 Rose Bowl over Purdue. Neuheisel also led the Huskies to two berths in the Holiday Bowl and to the Sun Bowl during his four-year tenure.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: In 2002, Neuheisel inspired his underperforming Huskies to win the inaugural "Northwest Championship" by sweeping their Pacific Northwest rivals.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Neuheisel was reprimanded by the NCAA for numerous recruiting violations. Neuheisel was fired in June 2003 after he admitted to taking part in a calcutta pool for the 2003 Men's NCAA basketball tournament. Neuheisel sued for wrongful termination, ultimately settling the case in March 2005 for $4.5 million, paid by the NCAA and Washington athletics department.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Keith Gilbertson was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach following Neuheisel's termination. The 2003 season, Gilbertson's first, ended with a 6–6 record but no bowl appearance. A 1–10 record the next year resulted in his firing. The 1–10 mark in 2004 was only Washington's second since the end of World War II. In two seasons, Gilbertson's record was 7–16.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Former Stanford and Notre Dame head coach Tyrone Willingham was hired as the next head football coach of the Washington Huskies in order to clean up the program's off-the-field reputation. The Huskies failed to post a winning record in any of Willingham's four seasons, the best being 5–7 in 2006. Willingham's record at Washington was a dismal 11–37 (.229). Willingham was fired after a winless (0-12) 2008 season.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: USC offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian was named the 23rd head football coach at Washington following the firing of Willingham. Sarkisian, known as an offensive mind and quarterbacks coach, led the Huskies to a 34–29 record over five seasons, never winning more than eight games in a year but recording just one losing season. Sarkisian departed after the 2013 regular season to return to USC as the head football coach, becoming the first head coach to voluntarily leave Washington for another program since Darrell Royal in 1956.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington hired Chris Petersen as head football coach on December 6, 2013. Petersen previously spent eight seasons as the head coach at Boise State.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: In his third year Petersen led Washington to a Pac-12 title and the program's first College Football Playoff appearance, the 2016 Peach Bowl. On April 11, 2017, the Washington Huskies Athletic Department extended Petersen's coaching contract through 2023, with a reported annual salary of $4.875 million, paid entirely from Washington Athletic Department revenue, such as ticket sales and television rights or gifts.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington finished the 2017 season with an invitation to participate in the 2017 Fiesta Bowl. In the 2018 season, Petersen led the Huskies to their second Pac-12 title in three years and Washington's 15th Rose Bowl appearance. On December 2, 2019, Petersen announced he would step down as head coach and move into an advisory role.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake was named Petersen's successor following his departure. He coached the team to a 3-1 record and a Pac-12 North division title during the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season. The team was unable to play in the 2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game due to numerous COVID-related absences.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: During the 2021 season, Lake was suspended without pay for shoving a Washington player during a loss to Oregon. Lake was later fired, finishing his tenure with a 7-6 record. Defensive coordinator Bob Gregory served as interim coach for the final three games of the season.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington hired Kalen DeBoer as head football coach on November 29, 2021. DeBoer spent the previous two seasons as head coach at Fresno State.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington played its first 26 seasons of college football from 1889 to 1915 as an independent. In 1916, Washington became one of the four charter members of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), which later evolved into the modern day Pac-12 Conference after going through several iterations: the PCC (1916–1958), Athletic Association of Western Universities (1959–1967), Pacific-8 (1968–1977), Pacific-10 (1978–2010), and Pac-12 (2011–present). The Pac-12 claims the history of each of these preceding conferences as its own. Washington and California are the only founding and continuous members in each of these successive conferences.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington football teams have been named national champions four times by NCAA-designated "major selectors". In addition, sportswriter Bill Libby chose the 1910 team as national champions in his book Champions of College Football. Washington claims both the 1960 and 1991 championships.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Washington's only consensus national championship was in 1991, when the team finished No. 1 in the Coaches' Poll.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: The 1960 team took an improbable road to the Rose Bowl and national championship. After suffering a 1-point setback to Navy in the third week of the season, the team reeled off eight straight wins capped by a triumph over No. 1 Minnesota in the 1961 Rose Bowl. Because the final Associated Press and United Press International polls were conducted after the final game of the regular season, their Rose Bowl opponent Minnesota had already been named the AP and UPI national champion for 1960 prior to the game. In its poll conducted following the bowl games, the Football Writers Association of America recognized Ole Miss as its national champion. The Helms Athletic Foundation recognized Washington as national champions following their Rose Bowl victory.


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text: The 1984 team opened the 1984 college football season with a 9–0 record which included a 20–11 win at No. 4 Michigan in Michigan Stadium. While ranked No. 1 in the AP poll, the Huskies dropped a 16–7 game to eventual Pac-10 champion USC, which cost Washington a chance at the Rose Bowl. The Huskies instead were invited to play in the Orange Bowl against the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners. The game is famous for the Sooner Schooner incident. After Oklahoma kicked a field goal to take a 17–14 lead in the fourth quarter, a penalty was called on the Sooners that nullified the play. The Sooner Schooner driver, who didn't see the flag, drove the wagon on the field and was immediately flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. The ensuing field goal attempt was blocked and led a momentum shift that saw Washington score two touchdowns in less than a minute en route to a 28–17 victory. Senior Jacque Robinson rushed for 135 yards and was named MVP, the first player in history to be named MVP of both the Orange and Rose Bowls.


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text: The 1990 Huskies started out the season with wins against San Jose State and Purdue, then beat No. 5 USC by a score of 31–0. The next week fell to eventual AP national champion Colorado. After the loss, Washington went on to finish the season averaging over 40 points a game while only giving up 14. During this run, Washington would end up beating two more ranked teams on their way to the Rose Bowl. However, in the second to last game Washington lost to UCLA. Washington subsequently entered the Rose Bowl with a record of 9–2 against Iowa. The Huskies won by a final score of 46–34 to secure their fifth Rose Bowl title, displaying its trademark NCAA-best run-defense which allowed 66.8 yards per game.


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text: The 1991 Huskies opened the 1991 season on the road, with a 42–7 victory over the Stanford Cardinal. Following a bye week, Washington traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska for a showdown with No. 9 Nebraska. Trailing 21–9 late in the third quarter, Washington rallied to score 27 unanswered points and claim a 36–21 victory. The following week saw the return of QB Mark Brunell, the 1991 Rose Bowl MVP who had suffered a knee injury in the spring, as the Huskies beat Kansas State 56–3 while holding the Wildcats to -17 yards on the ground. The Huskies followed with back-to-back shutouts of Arizona and Toledo. The Huskies then traveled to Berkeley to face No. 7 California. Washington won a wild game that was decided on the final play when Walter Bailey broke up a pass on the goal line to preserve a 24–17 win. Oregon and Arizona State visited Husky Stadium next and each left with a loss. The Huskies went on their final road trip of the season, first to USC, where they won in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time since 1980. Needing a win over Oregon State to clinch a Rose Bowl berth, Washington rolled to a 58–6 victory. Washington State visited Seattle for the Apple Cup but were no match for the Huskies, as Washington won 56–21, setting up a showdown with Michigan in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1992.


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text: The Huskies were voted national champions by the USA Today/CNN Coaches Poll, while the Miami Hurricanes topped the AP Poll. The 1991 team averaged over 41 points per game, only once scoring fewer than 20 points, and held opponents to an average of less than 10 points per game, including two shutouts.


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text: Washington has 7 Rose Bowl championships and one tie. The program been continuously affiliated with the Pac-12 Conference and its predecessors, which historically agreed to send a representative (typically the conference champion) to participate in the Rose Bowl. The Big Ten Conference was similarly contracted following World War II. This pairing made the Rose Bowl the most prestigious Bowl Game available to Pac-12 teams prior to the BCS era.


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text: Washington has won 17 conference championships, including the inaugural PCC championship in 1916. This total includes four PCC, three AAWU, one Pac-8, seven Pac-10, and two Pac-12 titles, and at least one in every decade except the 1940s. Washington's 17 conference championships is tied for second in league history, level with UCLA and behind USC's 38 as of 2018.


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text: Washington has a bowl game record of 19–20–1 through the 2019 season, though the Poi Bowl game was not sanctioned by the NCAA. The Huskies' 15 Rose Bowl appearances are second only to USC in the Pac-12 while their seven victories are tied for third-most. In addition, Washington is also in an elite group of only seven schools to make three consecutive appearances in the Rose Bowl, a feat they accomplished in 1990–1992. The Pacific-8 did not allow a second bowl team from the conference until 1975.


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text: Washington and Washington State first played each other in 1900. Traditionally, the Apple Cup is the final game of the regular season for both teams. The Apple Cup trophy has been presented to the winner of the game by the state's governor since 1963. Washington leads the series 75–33–6 as of the 2022 season.


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text: Washington wins the Northwest Championship by sweeping Oregon State, Oregon, and Washington State. The four Pacific Northwest rivals began playing in a round-robin format in the 1903 season.


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text: Husky Stadium has served as the home football stadium for Washington since 1920, with renovations in 1950, 1987 and 2012. Located on campus and set next to Lake Washington, it is the largest stadium in the Pacific Northwest with a seating capacity of 70,183. The stadium is one of a few football stadiums in the United States accessible through water, and is known as the "Greatest Setting in College Football". Washington has led the modern Pac-10 Conference in game attendance 13 times, including nine consecutive seasons from 1989 to 1997.


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text: With nearly 70 percent of the seats located between the end zones and grandstands covered by cantilevered metal roofs, Husky Stadium is one of the loudest stadiums in the country and is the loudest recorded stadium in college football. During the 1992 night game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, ESPN measured the noise level at about 135 decibels, the loudest mark in NCAA history.


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text: In 1968 the Huskies became the first major collegiate team to install an Astroturf field, following the lead of the Astrodome. Prior to the 2000 season, the school was among the leaders adopting FieldTurf, trailing only Memorial Stadium's installation by one season.


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text: A $280 million renovation of Husky Stadium began on November 7, 2011. Home games were moved to CenturyLink Field for the 2012 season while construction took place. The newly renovated Husky Stadium reopened on August 31, 2013 in a game in which the Huskies defeated Boise State by a score of 38–6.


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text: The Dempsey Indoor is an facility opened in September 2001. The building is used as an indoor practice facility for Washington's football, softball, baseball and men's and women's soccer teams.


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text: Washington has worn variations of uniforms over the years but are most recognized for their traditional home uniform of gold helmets, purple jerseys, and gold pants.


title: Washington Huskies football

text: Since Don James' first year as head coach in 1975, the Huskies have worn metallic gold helmets with a purple block "W" on both sides and white and purple center striping; he patterned the new helmet and uniforms after the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL. The exception was from 1995 to 1998 under Jim Lambright, when Washington wore solid purple helmets with a gold "W."


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text: During Jim Owens' tenure, an outstanding defensive player was awarded the honor of wearing a purple helmet. Rick Redman, an All-American linebacker in the 1960s, wore one. It was rather intimidating for the opposing quarterback to stand behind his center and see this lone purple-helmeted player staring him down before each play. In 1973 and 1974, Owens' last two seasons, the entire team wore purple helmets.


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text: For the 2010 home finale against UCLA, the Huskies unveiled a "blackout" theme. The end zones of Husky Stadium were painted black, while the team debuted black jerseys and pants and encouraged the home crowd to dress in black as well. Two weeks later for the Apple Cup in Pullman, UW wore the black pants with the usual white road jersey. Black jerseys and pants were worn again the next month for the 2010 Holiday Bowl. All three games were Washington victories.


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text: In 2013, the Huskies debuted chrome gold helmets, worn with purple tops and bottoms in a rain-soaked match against Arizona. Later that season against Oregon, Washington debuted matte black helmets featuring a purple "W" and two truncated purple stripes.


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text: Prior to the 2014 season, Washington revealed a new uniform set that featured three jersey, four pant, and three helmet color options to allow for a myriad of combinations on the field. The set included matte gold, matte black, and "frosted" white helmets; purple, white, and black jerseys; and gold, purple, white, and black pants. The chrome gold helmets that had been introduced the previous season returned in the 2014 game against Arizona State. In 2017, chrome purple helmets were added to the uniform set.


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text: In April 2018, the school agreed to a new 10-year, $119 million apparel deal with Adidas set to begin in summer 2019, ending a 20-year partnership with Nike. The deal with Adidas will rank among the top-10 most valuable in college athletics.


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text: The University of Washington Husky Marching Band (HMB) is the marching band of the University of Washington, consisting 240 members. The 2017 season was the 88th for the HMB.


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text: Huskies games are broadcast statewide on the Washington Sports Network, with Tony Castricone as the play-by-play announcer and former UW tight end Cam Cleeland on color commentary. The games air on flagship station 93.3 KJR-FM in Seattle. Bob Rondeau, known as the "Voice of the Huskies," announced Washington football for over 30 years until his retirement in 2017.


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text: Lou Gellermann, a Husky Hall of Fame rower, served as the UW Football public address announcer from 1985 until 2007. Gellermann welcomed Husky Stadium fans with his signature greeting "Hello, Dawg fans!", to which the fans responded "Hello, Lou!".


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text: As of December 2022, eight Washington players have ranked among top finishes in the Heisman Trophy voting.


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text: 22 different Washington players have been recognized on 23 occasions as consensus All-Americans by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), by virtue of recording a majority of votes at their respective positions by the selectors.


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text: Washington Football honors three jersey numbers. As of 2022 all three honored numbers are available for reissue, although each had been considered "retired" in previous years. The three players and their numbers are honored on a prominent display situated on the lower concourse of Husky Stadium.


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text: 15 former Washington players and coaches have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, located in Atlanta, Georgia.


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text: 3 former Washington players have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in Canton, Ohio.


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text: As of 2010, Warren Moon (Edmonton Eskimos 1978–83) is the only player to be a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (NFL).


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text: The Rose Bowl has inducted eight Washington coaches and players into the Rose Bowl Game Hall of Fame.


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text: In the 1975 Apple Cup, Washington State led 27–14 with three minutes left in the game. WSU attempted a 4th-and-1 conversion at the UW 14-yard line rather than try for a field goal. The resulting pass was intercepted by Al Burleson and returned 93 yards for a touchdown. After a WSU three-and-out, Warren Moon's tipped pass was caught by Spider Gaines for a 78-yard touchdown reception and sealed a dramatic 28–27 win for Washington. WSU Head Coach Jim Sweeney resigned a week later, leaving with a 26–59–1 record.


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text: When 14th-ranked Washington State and 17th-ranked Washington met in the 1981 Apple Cup, it was billed as the biggest meeting in the series since the 1936 game when the winner was invited to the Rose Bowl. Washington's defense was the best in the conference, while the Cougars ranked high in offensive categories. Along with a win over WSU, the Huskies needed USC to upset UCLA, in a game that kicked off 40 minutes before the Apple Cup, to clear the way for a Rose Bowl bid.


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text: With his team trailing 7–3 late in the second quarter, Husky quarterback Steve Pelluer fired a low pass towards wideout Paul Skansi. Washington State cornerback Nate Brady looked as if he would smother the ball when Skansi dove over the defender for a catch in the endzone.


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text: Washington State drove the ball 69 yards to open the second half and tie the score at 10. From that point Washington, behind the fine play of their offensive line, took control. Ron "Cookie" Jackson capped an 80-yard drive by running 23 yards to put the Huskies ahead 17–10. Following a Cougar turnover, All-American kicker Chuck Nelson kicked his second field goal of the game to increase the Huskies' lead to 10 points.


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text: The fate of the Cougars was sealed when the score of the USC-UCLA game was announced- the Trojans had engineered the upset. Nelson added a field goal with less than three minutes to play, and the Huskies were off to the Rose Bowl.


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text: The 1984 Huskies were ranked No. 1 in October, but lost on November 10 to USC at the Coliseum. Although the Trojans would finish the regular season 8–3 and ranked No. 18, this head-to-head result won them the Pac-10 championship and knocked the 10–1 Huskies out of the Rose Bowl.


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text: At the end of the regular season, the No. 4 Huskies were invited to play No. 1 BYU in the Holiday Bowl. They declined the invitation and instead accepted an offer to play No. 2 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, the first Pac-10 team to do so. The game in Miami versus the Big Eight champions was a more prestigious bowl and offered a more lucrative payout. Oklahoma, if they won their bowl game, was also expected to jump to No. 1 in the final rankings.


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text: Don James was carried off the field on his players' shoulders with his finger held up indicating "No. 1", believing that this win would propel them to the national championship. Unfortunately for the Huskies, unbeaten BYU retained their first position in the final AP and Coaches polls despite playing a much weaker schedule.


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text: Heading into the 1990 season, the winner of the USC-Washington game had gone to the Rose Bowl in 10 of the previous 13 seasons. The 1990 match would continue that trend. Washington's All-Centennial team was introduced at halftime of the game, while two members of the historic team, Hugh McElhenny and Nesby Glasgow, delivered inspirational talks to the current players. On a bright, sunny day with the temperature reaching 92 degrees Fahrenheit, the crowd of 72,617 witnessed one of the most memorable games in program history.


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text: Washington shut out USC for just the third time in 23 seasons, handing the Trojans their worst conference defeat in 30 years. "Student Body Right" was held to only 28 rushing yards as the Husky defense dominated the line of scrimmage. Greg Lewis, the Doak Walker Award winner as the nation's top running back, gained 126 rushing yards as sophomore quarterback Mark Brunell threw for 197 yards for the Huskies, as they rolled to a 24–0 halftime lead.


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text: The Husky defense, led by All-American lineman Steve Emtman, stopped everything the Trojans attempted. The defense would hold USC to 163 total yards and seven first downs for the game. They would record three sacks and put so much pressure on Todd Marinovich that after the game, weary and beaten, he famously said: "I just saw purple. That's all. No numbers, just purple."


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text: Playing in the first night in stadium history, No. 2 Washington posted a victory against No. 12 Nebraska that provided the loudest recorded moment in the history of Husky Stadium and would be dubbed "A Night To Remember."


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text: Late in the first quarter, Husky punter John Werdel pinned Nebraska on its three yard-line. Crowd noise caused the Husker linemen to false start on consecutive plays, only adding to the frenzy of the crowd.


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text: When Nebraska quarterback Mike Grant dropped back to his own end zone to attempt a pass, Husky roverback Tommie Smith blitzed Grant from his blind side and tackled him for a safety. The deafening roar following the play reverberated off the twin roofs of the stadium. ESPN measured the noise level at over 130 decibels, well above the threshold of pain. The peak recorded level of 133.6 decibels has been the highest ever recorded at a college football stadium.


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text: Holding a 9–7 lead, the Husky offense went into quick-strike mode at the close of the second quarter. Speedy running back Napoleon Kaufman ended an 80-yard drive with a 1-yard scoring run. Walter Bailey intercepted Grant to start the second half, and the Huskies extended their lead when quarterback Billy Joe Hobert threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to a diving Joe Kralik to boost the lead to 23–7. Kicker Travis Hanson later made a pair of field goals second half to cinch a 29–14 win. The victory propelled Washington to the No. 1 ranking in the AP poll the following week.


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text: The 'Whammy in Miami' was a college football game played between the Huskies and the Miami Hurricanes on September 24, 1994 in Miami's Orange Bowl. The game was the first football contest between the two schools. During the 1991 season, both teams finished the year with identical 12–0 records and both teams were crowned National Champions by different polls. The teams were unable to settle the championship on the field, as both teams were locked into their respective bowl games (Washington in the Rose and Miami in the Orange). As a result, both schools agreed to schedule the other for a series of games.


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text: Entering the game, Miami had an NCAA record home winning streak of 58 games and was ranked 5th in the nation with a 2–0 record. The Hurricanes had not lost at the Orange Bowl since 1985 and not to a team from outside of Florida since 1984. The Huskies were 1–1, having lost to USC and beaten Ohio State. Odds makers placed the Huskies as a 14-point underdog.


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text: The Hurricanes appeared to be on their way to a 59th consecutive home victory in the first half, leading the Huskies 14–3 at halftime. After the half, the Huskies came out firing by scoring 22 points in five minutes. Key plays included a 75-yard touchdown pass, 34-yard interception return, and a fumble recovery. The Huskies dominated the second half on the way to a 38–20 victory. According to the Seattle Times, it was believed by Husky players that Miami Coach Dennis Erickson had joked that the losers of the game should relinquish their national championship rings from 1991. This gave rise to safety Lawyer Milloy reportedly shouting "Take the rings back," as he walked off the field.


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text: With the game in Pullman, No. 3 Washington State entered the game poised for BCS National Championship game consideration. Unranked Washington was playing to win the so-called Northwest Championship by sweeping their Pacific Northwest rivals, having beat Oregon State and Oregon in their previous two games.


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text: WSU star quarterback Jason Gesser was injured by DT Terry "Tank" Johnson late in the game. The Cougars led 20–10 with less than 4 minutes left in the game, with Matt Kegel having replacing Gesser. UW used a timely interception from freshman cornerback Nate Robinson to force overtime. The teams traded field goals in the first two overtime periods, and John Anderson converted another kick to start the third overtime. During the Cougars' possession, umpire Gordon Riese controversially ruled that Kegel threw a backward pass, which was knocked down and recovered by defensive end Kai Ellis.


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text: The fumble recovery ended the game as a Washington victory. The Martin Stadium crowd erupted angrily in response, and some individuals threw bottles on the field as Washington players and fans celebrated. Then UW athletic director Barbara Hedges said at the time that she "feared for her life."


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text: Entering the game, the No. 3 Trojans had the national spotlight after their defeat of Ohio State in Columbus the week before. Washington, meanwhile, had just won its first game in 16 contests with a victory over Idaho.


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text: Southern California opened the game with 10 unanswered points, marching down the field with ease. USC was playing without starting quarterback Matt Barkley, who had injured his shoulder the week before at Ohio State, but despite playing with backup QB Aaron Corp, the Trojans were able to lean on an experienced running game and veteran offensive line.


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text: Washington worked its way back into the game with a 4-yard touchdown run by quarterback Jake Locker, trimming the score to 10–7. Late in the second quarter, placekicker Erik Folk kicked a 46-yard field goal to tie the score at 10.


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text: The scored remained tied as the game entered the fourth quarter. After swapping field goals, the Huskies took possession with four minutes left in the game. Locker maneuvered the Huskies down the field, converting on two key third downs, including a 3rd-and-15 from his team's own 28 where Locker threw across the sideline to Jermaine Kearse for 21 yards. The Huskies would eventually drive to the USC 4-yard line before Folk kicked the game-winning field goal for the 16–13 victory, Washington's first conference win since 2007.


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text: On October 2, 2010 the Huskies went on the road to face No. 18 USC at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a place where they had not won since 1996. They hadn't won on the road period since November 3, 2007 against Stanford, a streak of 13 consecutive games. The Huskies led for parts of all four quarters but never put the game away, including a play in which Jake Locker had the ball stripped out of the end-zone on what was a sure touchdown run.


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text: Locker left the game for one play after taking a knee to helmet on a quarterback sneak. Keith Price, a redshirt freshman from Compton, California, came in to make his Washington debut and completed a touchdown pass on his only play of the game, putting the Huskies ahead 29–28. The Trojans made a field goal on the following possession to retake the lead, 31–29. The Huskies' final drive started with two incomplete passes and a near fumble, but on a 4th-and-11 Jake Locker completed a pass to a leaping DeAndre Goodwin. The Huskies continued to push the ball into field goal range in a similar situation to the previous year when playing USC. With 3 seconds left, Erik Folk kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired, giving the Huskies their first road win in three years.


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text: Prior to this game, Oregon had beaten Washington 12 straight times, ten of which were by a margin of 20 points or more. This was the longest winning streak by either team in the Oregon-Washington football rivalry. The Huskies, ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll after a 44–6 win against No. 7 Stanford at Husky Stadium the previous week, traveled to Autzen Stadium to face a 2–3 Oregon team.


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text: The Oregon winning streak was finally snapped after a 70–21 Washington rout. On the first play from scrimmage, Washington safety Budda Baker, a one-time commit to Oregon, intercepted a pass from Oregon true freshman quarterback Justin Herbert. The Huskies took the lead on a Jake Browning touchdown run with 13:23 left in the first quarter and never relinquished it. The Huskies led 35–7 by halftime, 42–7 after the first possession of the third quarter, and 70–21 with 9:58 left in the fourth quarter.


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text: The Washington offense racked up 682 yards of total offense, averaged 10.1 yards per play, amassed 6 passing touchdowns by quarterback Jake Browning, and scored 70 points, the most scored by either team in the rivalry. This was also the second-most an opponent has ever scored on Oregon in Eugene.


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text: Washington plays each of the other 5 schools in the North Division annually and 4 of the 6 schools from the South Division. Each season, Washington "misses" two schools from the South Division: either UCLA or USC and one of the four Arizona or Mountain schools. This cycle repeats after eight seasons.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: Maezawa began attending Waseda Jitsugyo High School in 1991, where he started a hardcore punk band with his classmates called , in which he was the drummer. The band released their first EP in 1993. After graduating from high school, he decided not to go to college; instead he moved to the US with a girlfriend, where he started collecting CDs and records. When he returned to Japan in 1995, his album collection became the basis for his first company, which sold imported albums and CDs through the mail.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: In 1998, Maezawa used the basis of the mail-order album business to launch the company Start Today. The same year, his band signed with the label BMG Japan. By 2000, Start Today had moved to an online platform, had begun selling clothing, and had become a public company. In 2001, Maezawa declared a hiatus on his music career. Start Today opened the retail clothing website Zozotown in 2004, and six years later, Start Today became a publicly traded company, listed on the "Mothers" Index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. By 2012, Start Today was listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: In 2018, Maezawa introduced ZOZO, a custom-fit clothing brand and the ZOZOSUIT, an at-home measurement system, in over 72 countries and territories.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: Maezawa resigned from ZOZO in September 2019 after selling a stake of 50.1% in the company to SoftBank for (400 billion Yen). He also sold 30% of his personal stake in ZoZo to Yahoo Japan.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: Maezawa is the founder of the Tokyo-based Contemporary Art Foundation, which he started in 2012 with a goal of "supporting young artists as a pillar of the next generation of contemporary art." The Contemporary Art Foundation currently hosts collection shows twice a year. In May 2016, Maezawa attracted significant media attention with a record purchase price at auction of $57.3 million for an "Untitled" (1982) artwork of a devil by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and broke a record again in May 2017 with a $110.5 million auction for another "Untitled" (1982) of a skull by the same artist. At the same 2016 auction, Maezawa bought pieces by Bruce Nauman, Alexander Calder, Richard Prince, and Jeff Koons, spending a total of $98 million over two days. Maezawa plans to open a contemporary art museum in Chiba, which will house his collection.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: On 17 September 2018, it was announced that Maezawa will be the first commercial passenger to do a flyby around the Moon. He will fly on board a SpaceX Starship, which has been in development since 2017. The flight is slated to take place no earlier than 2023 with a duration of nearly six days. He originally planned to take six to eight artists with him as a part of an art project he has created entitled #dearMoon. However, in March 2021, Maezawa changed the requirement to members of the public. Finally, in December 2022. Maezawa announced that he chose his crew members, and he selected them as the group of his favorite artists, such as DJ Steve Aoki and T.O.P.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: On 13 May 2021, Maezawa announced he would be joining Space Adventures on a trip to the International Space Station in December 2021, via a Soyuz spacecraft. He spent 12 days on the orbital station with his assistant, Yozo Hirano, where he completed the top 100 things demanded by public, as well as recorded highlights in preparation for the SpaceX lunar flight.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: The flight lifted off on 8 December 2021, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as part of the Russian-operated Soyuz MS-20. On 18 December, Maezawa announced that he will start a campaign in which every participant will receive a sum of money "from space." The campaign started on 19 December. He returned as planned on 20 December.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: On 5 January 2019, Maezawa successfully secured the most ever retweets for his Twitter message offering one million yen (approx US$9300) each to 100 randomly selected people who retweeted the message and followed him. More than four million people ended up retweeting Maezawa's tweet and following him.


title: Yusaku Maezawa

text: Later that year, on 31 December, he secured the second spot in the list of most-retweeted tweets by offering one million yen (approx US$9200) each to 1000 randomly selected people who retweeted the Twitter message and followed him. The message surpassed the 3 million retweet's mark.