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BoiseBYUTo carry on last year's tradition of appreciating our opponents and the cultural milieu they bring, in anticipation of our first game, here are helpful Washington facts
Seattle is home to the world's first revolving restaurant. It is also home to the first football revolving coaching position, which is at UW
Washington produces more apples than any other state in the nation. Indeed it has lots of other fruits, too, like Pete Caroll
Washington has more glaciers than all the other 47 contiguous states combined. But thatâs because they have include the WA Huskies rushing attack in the tally.
Washington's capitol building was the last state capitol to be built with a rotunda. It is set to be the final resting place for WSU football sometime next year.
Everett, Washington is home to the world's largest building - Boeing's final assembly plant. It encloses nearly 500 million cubic feet - enough to hold every rain drop that dropped in Seattle (last February).
Medina, Washington is the home of Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates. He is revered for such innovations like Windows 3.0 and ME He also is the author of the most common phrase in the English language: âGeneral Protectino Faultâ
Software giant Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. You can look at it from Google Images and when you do it has the strange appearance of the one finger salute
King County - Washington's largest county - was originally named in 1852 after William Rufus King, vice president under president Franklin Pierce. In 1986 it was "re-named" in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. And here I thought it was named after Don King
The state plant of Washington is fungus amungus
Washington is home to the only rainforests in the US. They are mostly on the Olympian Peninsula, but that is only because they tore all the trees down around Husky Stadium
Europeans first landed in Washington when the Spanish visited briefly in 1775. Their journal entry is "Smells like rot."
Lewis & Clark visited Washington 30 years later in 1805. Their report was, "Smells like rotting rot"
Nirvana wrote a song in Seattle entitled âSmells like rotten rot.â Kurt Cobainâs mumbling of it got misunderstood to âSmells Like Teen Spiritâ
Washington is home to such internet giants as Amazon.com and it is no doubt because its site is on a logged out rain forest tract of land that probably looked like the Amazon at one point in time
The state marine mammal of Washington is the Orca. At one time they were called Killer Whales, but that was not politically correct and so the name change was decreed in 2002 A.C.E.
Actor Adam West - who played Batman in the 1960's TV series - was born in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1928. His dad was Bob Bob West.
Seattle is home to the world's first revolving restaurant. It is also home to the first football revolving coaching position, which is at UW
Washington produces more apples than any other state in the nation. Indeed it has lots of other fruits, too, like Pete Caroll
Washington has more glaciers than all the other 47 contiguous states combined. But thatâs because they have include the WA Huskies rushing attack in the tally.
Washington's capitol building was the last state capitol to be built with a rotunda. It is set to be the final resting place for WSU football sometime next year.
Everett, Washington is home to the world's largest building - Boeing's final assembly plant. It encloses nearly 500 million cubic feet - enough to hold every rain drop that dropped in Seattle (last February).
Medina, Washington is the home of Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates. He is revered for such innovations like Windows 3.0 and ME He also is the author of the most common phrase in the English language: âGeneral Protectino Faultâ
Software giant Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. You can look at it from Google Images and when you do it has the strange appearance of the one finger salute
King County - Washington's largest county - was originally named in 1852 after William Rufus King, vice president under president Franklin Pierce. In 1986 it was "re-named" in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. And here I thought it was named after Don King
The state plant of Washington is fungus amungus
Washington is home to the only rainforests in the US. They are mostly on the Olympian Peninsula, but that is only because they tore all the trees down around Husky Stadium
Europeans first landed in Washington when the Spanish visited briefly in 1775. Their journal entry is "Smells like rot."
Lewis & Clark visited Washington 30 years later in 1805. Their report was, "Smells like rotting rot"
Nirvana wrote a song in Seattle entitled âSmells like rotten rot.â Kurt Cobainâs mumbling of it got misunderstood to âSmells Like Teen Spiritâ
Washington is home to such internet giants as Amazon.com and it is no doubt because its site is on a logged out rain forest tract of land that probably looked like the Amazon at one point in time
The state marine mammal of Washington is the Orca. At one time they were called Killer Whales, but that was not politically correct and so the name change was decreed in 2002 A.C.E.
Actor Adam West - who played Batman in the 1960's TV series - was born in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1928. His dad was Bob Bob West.