510Bear;842739601 said:

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Oregon is like Britney. The more they fade from relevance, the harder they're trying to get our attention.

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510Bear;842739601 said:

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Oregon is like Britney. The more they fade from relevance, the harder they're trying to get our attention.

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510Bear;842739601 said:

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Oregon is like Britney. The more they fade from relevance, the harder they're trying to get our attention.

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ferCALgm2;842739589 said:

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OU will be wearing these jerseys against UW this week. Forreals? Gotta be kidding -- even wrong colors!

Pretty funny.

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FiatSlug;842739737 said:

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IIRC, UO (not OU, which would be Oklahoma or Zero U as some Texas fans are fond of calling the Sooners) was known as "Webfoots" before they were known as "Ducks". Webfoots and Ducks were nicknames in simultaneous use into the 1970s.

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UO via ESPN said:

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...the chest will read "Webfoots," which is what the program was known as during its first three decades of existence. According to the university, the word Webfoots -- despite popular belief -- wasn't a nickname for a duck.

It was rather a term that had originated in Massachusetts during the 1700s to describe locals who lived in wet conditions. The term was proliferated by miners coming northward from California as a pejorative descriptor of the locals of the waterlogged Willamette Valley and had grown in popular usage by the 1860s. By the time the University of Oregon began forming sports teams for intercollegiate play in the last decade of the 19th century, the term Webfoot had become synonymous with Oregonians.

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