University of Washington HuskykatzThat's right ladies and gentlemen, last night I saw someone write out the name of the drug Heroin but spell it with an E on the end, which obviously isn't right. Then that made me think of when all these Seattle musicians were doing Heroin and becoming junkies and then that made me think OH YEAH I'VE GOT A BUNCH OF HUSKYKAT PICTURES SOMEWHERE! I first went to their football stade about 2006 when it was its normal dumb old self. But then I saw it when they totally gutted it, then I went back when it was done. I guess you could say I'm an elite Seattle visit'r.
Their old stade before the renovations:
Here's a site with a bunch of cool pictures of the stadium guttage. Would love for a construction cat to look at those and tell me why there are two weird dirty swimming pools on the field in the top picture.
http://www.collegiatestadiums.com/2012/04/19/photos-of-renovations-at-washintons-husky-stadium/I remember somewhere back on like page 7 or something someone asked me, "Hey SB. What's your secret for always getting into stadiums?" And I gave this really long, detailed, multi-bulleted plan for different ways you can sneak in. But I forgot one! #8 or whatever on that list should be, "show up when the campus is crawling with 10,000 Jehovah's Witnesses. Then as their weird convention is letting out of Husky Stadium, you can just slink into the gates and pretend like you're a JW even though everyone else is dressed in long suits in the middle of July and you're just wearing your 2012 Big XII Champs shirt." Shoulda been wearing my 1999 Holiday Bowl shirt though, just to really symbolically mush every single Husky face I saw straight into the toilet.
Here you can see the nice outer facade which would look even better with a big ol' History Awaits banner. (I say that because as you can see, until recently they also had a track lololololol). One of the upper decks is the only thing leftover from the old stadium, along with the massive overhang above the stands which blocks the rain and broadcasts to everyone on the planet just how Northwest'y that particular stadium is. "Hey look at me I go to Oregon it rains a lot we have to have these overhangs." "Oh yeah well I go to Oregon State and our overhang game is pretty on point too." "Here at UW we have the biggest overhangs in the Pac-12."
It appears they brought the bleachers much closer to the stands for more elite sightlines toward whoever was the keynote Witness speaker, and they added much more elaborate layers of bleachers/suites on this side. It used to be pretty basic, but with the renovation this thing went from being a plain ol' baloney sandwich to one more suited for Dagwood.
This is the view that definitely still includes their old upper deck. It's the Husky Stade equivalent to the East Side bleachers. They jazzed it up underneath the big guy, though.
Well that cute li'l End Zone Fun Zone bleacher configuration looks familiar.
It's well-known that they kept theirs downscaled so as to preserve the view of Lake Washington, much like we here at KSU Cats U did with our view of Lake Meatgoat.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And now we begin the series of photos I like to call, "OOOH, LOOK AT THOSE CURVES." Please note how their new stadium, which is otherwise pretty pud as the thread title implies, features really well-done, elegant, subtle curves with the bleacher configuration. I often wonder what Purple State Cats College stadium would look like if the bleachers were slightly curved vs. parallel to the out of bounds lines. BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER THREAD. Just...oooh, look at those curves.
Concourse logos. Backlit. Not very powercat'y.
Man. Can you imagine a Pack 'pak? Probably awesome as you drink boat drinks and look out at Lake Worshington.
Here you see a different view of their End Zone Fun Zone. Few things to notice here. 1) Who's that JW clown gettin' all up in my shot? 2) Elite, elegant, subtle bleacher curvature.
3) Football practice field with spooky husky eyes on the wall. 4) Look at this cute li'l softball field! Man. Talk about wanting to roll a 'rena up and put it in your pocket and say hi to it all day. Wow, just wow. Get a load of those three-row bleachers extending halfway around the back of the wall, but then they cut it off in left field, presumably so there's no obstructions for lady softball'rs to hit whoppers that plunk in the lake. Can barely handle how adorbz it all is.
Midfield logo really needs some work.
Different viewpoint of Dagwood's dream sammy. Note the lol lights on the braggy overhang.
Have you ever seen a taller upper deck? The answer is no. I have been all over these 50 nifty and I legit can't think of a more top-heavy upper deck than this
boheumith boheemith big guy you see right here. Much quad workouts, so tall, or whatever. [/doge]
Caption contest. Go.
'nother view of their cute li'l 'oftball stade, and what I assume is their pud attempt at a rowing facility.
O-M-Squeee
Gah you guys I srsly just could not get enough of this lady. I sat down and watched her vacuum the end zone for like 5 minutes. It was so lolwtf.
Guess who snuck into the suites. AGAIN.
Honestly, not that impressive for being a big school in a big stadium with big-money donors.
What would the 'cat version of this be?
Dat angle
George Washington (founder of the university)
Shifting gears... (it's almost over)
Alaska Airlines Arena, or as I like to call it, "Triple A"
It appears to be under some kind of restoration here (July 2014), because it's a suuuuper old gym. IMO, they did the "Ahearn echo" thing the right way. The Triple A, or Hec Edmunson Pavilion, or "HecEdPav," as I like to call it, is sweet. It's super old but has been constantly updated and feels modern. If I recall, the renovations were done five months later. Can't say for sure though, because my Canadian friend went to a Washington women's basketball game in December but had legally consumed too many zoot brownies beforehand and forgot to look for scaffolding.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WEIRD COURT ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(That's the Seattle skyline on the other side.)
Also !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WEIRD DAWG EYES ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE SCOREBOARD ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey sign: I did.
So as you can see, you might as well call the triple-A "Bill" because it is very Raftery.
Concourse is a total joke. Hotel carpeting and almost no room to move. Definitely built when people were waaay skinnier. And if I'm being honest, the concessions were kind of a joke too.
But they did have this going on!
"I'm not about to tell
you, Marv." <--who can name this elite near-reference?
Marv Harshman sounds like your elementary school band director.
And now we close out our extremely long UW Huskycats update. But not without a picture of this fine work of art. It hangs in a Seattle bar in Wallingford called The Grizzled Wizard, which might be the best bar on the planet (Drinx notwithstanding). Tons of comical gummy bear/Skittles/Swedish Fish infused vodkas, and free Pac-Man/Burger Time arcade 24/7. Also a massive mural on the wall of a giant wizard shooting lightning at you. And this.
