Football

It would be a dream come true to be one of the lucky few who get to skydive into Washington-Grizzly stadium -- Just before kick off, the crowd is pumped... Just when the crowd is anticipating the Griz to emerge from the tunnel, the skydivers make their entrance into the stadium.

We witnessed this recently during the 2013 season opener versus Appalachian State, and now, we can experience the grand entrance in first person.

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In High School, I used to have a blast tormenting mascots. As evil as it sounds. I would sneak up on the Billings Bull's mascot, "Boris the Bull," and twist his head around backwards...Don't judge me. In Utah, a high school running back suffered the same fate, but still made it look good.

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Just because the weather gets a little colder soon, doesn’t mean that Missoula and Western Montana close the blinds and hibernate for the winter. In fact, the opposite is true. There is just as much to enjoy about our fair city when the snow flies, as when the sun shines 20 hours a day

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As I have confessed to you before, I am not a big football fan. There are many aspects of the game that I don’t understand, that don’t make sense to me, or that just plain bore me. I don’t understand why they stop the clock after some plays, but not after others. How does a game that has four 15 minute quarters last for three hours on average?

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After days of eagerly awaiting an explanation to the bizarre case of Manti Te'o (meanwhile thoroughly enjoying the Tweets) we finally have some answers in the form of his eHarmony ad.

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There are a lot of NFL fans that don't have a lot to smile about these days. The playoffs have been surprisingly rough on many teams and their fans, and that doesn't even take into consideration all of the teams that didn't even make it into the postseason.

There isn't much that can be down now though, except maybe laugh at their expense. Check out this compilation of bad lip reading replaced with much funnier comments.

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Saturday, Nov. 1 brought The University of Montana Grizzlies and the Montana State University Bobcats together for the 112th meeting on the gridiron. The Cats won this year's "Brawl of the Wild," which was held in Missoula, 16-7

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A Utah youth football coach is being charged with assault for allegedly hitting an opposing player as he ran down the sideline.  The 7th grade player supposedly suffered a season ending concussion.  When the video surfaced, Nathan Harris was arrested and charged with second degree child abuse.  That charge was later dropped to assault.  Free Beer and Hot Wings weigh in on the situation and try to figure out if the coach is truly at fault.

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So this video might not make you cry, but the story probably will. Michael Ferns, a senior at St. Clairsville High in Clairsville, OH, gave up a touchdown one yard from the end zone so that his teammate, Logan Thompson, whose father died two days before, could score instead.

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University of Montana Grizzly linebacker Brock Coyle was selected by the Big Sky Conference Monday as the ROOT Sports co-defensive player of the week for his performance against Northern Colorado on Saturday.

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As you may have heard, hobos and miscreants are in charge of refereeing NFL games now! Or, rather, the NFL has decided to use high school referees as replacements while it negotiates with the actual referees' union, which has led to the occasional minor controversy. And while Monday's night's disastrous ending to the Packers-Seahawks game is probably the pinnacle (or nadir) of this sad saga, there were already plenty of questionable, puzzling and downright infuriating officiating decisions leading up to it.

Let's have a look, shall we?

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There's a lot of angry Green Bay Packers fans right now, and rightfully so -- It's pretty bad when even Seahawk fans are agreeing with you.

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