Andrew Rich has a Ewet for a brother!!!!

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Austin Rich is the younger brother of BYU senior safety, and team captain, Andrew Rich. And now, he's feeling torn about the game.



"At the start of the year, I was not conflicted at all. I was Utes all the way," Austin said. "I've always been loyal to Andrew, but I'm also loyal to where I go to school. I've got to meet the BYU players, and (coach) Bronco (Mendenhall). He's treated my family so well. It's kind of hard to root against the guys who have treated you so well. I haven't met many of the Utah players or formed those special bonds that I have lately with some of the BYU players."



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Andrew Rich deeply appreciates his brother's support.



"He's been my No. 1 fan. He'll be in the MUSS (Saturday). He wants me to succeed and see me happy and win. But he goes to the University of Utah," Andrew said. "He's just excited for a good game. He recognizes that it's just a game. At the beginning of my career, it was really, really hard for him to see me at BYU. He had to decide who he was going to side with. But with him seeing me and my team struggle this year, he's learned a lot. He's got a lot of respect for guys on the team and for coach Mendenhall. He's grown to respect the program, to see what it's made of. I would say his loyalty has definitely changed and he might even wear blue when he goes to sleep at night. I wouldn't be surprised."



When told about his brother's comment about wearing blue, Austin laughed.

Mars wrote:


The better article was the one about the Yewt cheerleader who beat up the BYU fan. Asked why he went to Utah and not the Y, he replied that he applied but his grades weren't good enough so they didn't accept him. Which is typically the reason a person becomes a :utard: .

If you know the name Billy Priddis, you know he punched the daylights out of a fan who tackled him during the Utah-BYU game, 11 years ago. That's the part he'd like you to forget. It was a moment of blind emotion.



Heaven knows, that never happens when it's Utah-BYU.



Besides, when you see friends killed in combat and children dying of an infection that wouldn't touch most American kids, it changes things. You understand that Saturday's game at Rice-Eccles Stadium really isn't war, but entertainment. And that life is more than trash talk and touchdowns.



So when he rides in his supply vehicle, thinking of land mines and mortar fire, pardon him if he doesn't consider Beck to Harline or Ratliff to LaTendresse life-and-death situations. That's not to say Captain Billy Priddis, of the 82nd Sustainment Brigade in Afghanistan, isn't still a Utah fan. Just listen.



"You might as well ask me if I still breathe," he says.



Last season he drove six hours on a motorcycle from Oklahoma to Texas to watch Utah lose at TCU.



"It's sad when a grown man on a motorcycle cries," he says.



Each year he receives requests to talk about the day in 1999. He consented for the first time, this week, speaking via telephone with the Deseret News from his military base in Afghanistan. The reason: the kids. Hundreds of them, at several hospitals and orphanages in his assigned area. Aside from his regular job as a Military Policeman, Priddis does volunteer work, running supplies to the hospitals.



"I wanted to do something to help people," he says.



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Priddis adds that he is a returned LDS missionary, active in church and married in a temple. The couple has four kids, a fifth on the way.



"I'm not sure what people thought they would get," he continues, "but I don't think they were expecting ... me."

declocoug wrote:
That's not the first time a U cheerleader has been tackled by a fan. I saw a guy in the 90's tackle one of the u's male cheerleaders, then beat him in a footrace to the stands were his buddies hoisted him back into the crowd. Hilarious.

kitic77 wrote:

That's not the first time a U cheerleader has been tackled by a fan. I saw a guy in the 90's tackle one of the u's male cheerleaders, then beat him in a footrace to the stands were his buddies hoisted him back into the crowd. Hilarious.

The rest of that story is the Ute cheerleader wound up transferring to BYU to enter their ROTC program.