Portlander Tommy Brooks flying his Oregon Duck colors on the way to work this morning.
(Photo © J. Maus)
(Photo © J. Maus)
Tonight is the Big Game between the Oregon Ducks and the Auburn Tigers to decide the college football national champion. I don’t really follow college football, and I have some mixed feelings about the impact of major sports on universities, but I’m willing to put all that aside for a game like this. I’ll definitely be watching tonight.
Big games like this transcend sport. They bring our state together and these days we need all the common cause and unity we can get.
This morning on my ride into the office I saw Tommy Brooks and his daughter biking down N. Vancouver Ave. Tommy, a lawyer (and BTA Board member) who works downtown, is an Oregon Duck alum and he wore his team jacket with pride.
Enjoy the game… and Go Ducks!
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I’m sorry, just because he is with the BTA doesn’t mean this article ties in with bikes at all… there are other web sites about sports, and I try to avoid them… good enthusiasm, wrong site…
Thanks Spiffy, and just FYI, I could care less if he was from the BTA.. that’s not the point. I just saw him randomly and learned after photographing him that he was on the BTA Board… so I thought I’d mention it.
Sorry you don’t like seeing sports here.
don’t be too sorry, it’s your blog… but see Andrew’s comment below, you should have tied it in like that somehow…
just trying to keep you on-track… (:
I’m a southern girl I was raised in Montgomery AL and grew up a tiger fan. My sister is an alum of Auburn University so im torn. Should be a fun good game!
Spiffy, Jonathan’s point is that this game is about Oregon, and it’s far beyond sports. The new attention, media, sponsors and tourists this game will bring to Oregon and the U of O will benefit us all, and we should be proud of this moment in our state’s history.
see, now this is the kind of thing that Jonathan needs to include in his story to tie it in with bikes… thanks!
I don’t understand why he would have to spell out something so obvious… in fact, not putting such ideas into articles may get reads to draw out such conclusions for themselves, rather than being told what to think, and “why” something “may” be important to something that seems unrelated upon first inspection.
Sorry, that should be “readers”, not “reads”.
it’s still not that obvious… I was reading about the NYC bike lanes and their tourist draw, so this could have tied in the tourist draw like that…
I still can’t draw any connection between an away sports game and local bicycling… it’d be nice if I had the time to sit and contemplate but I read this blog at work and have limited time other that absorbing the info in the way it’s presented…
I’d like if I could easily tell how the stories tie into Portland or bicycling, or at least general transportation…
GO DUCKS ! 🙂 rolling with my beanie on today.
what a nice day..
enjoy the ride,
Joe
🙁 it was entertaining at least ):
Maybe if the photographer wasn’t standing in the bike lane, he could fit entirely within the lane…
I was biking when I took this photo Paul. Thanks.
Heh, that just brings up more questions than it answers…how’d you manage that while keeping your eyes on the road, and why is the subject riding on the lane line instead of completely moving into one lane or the other like they’re supposed to?
Have to agree. That sounds a lot more dangerous that trying to chat on a cell phone.