Re: Western Illinois claim to fame
Claim to Fame: Best visiting team broadcast booth for football?*
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Re: Western Illinois claim to fame
Re: Western Illinois claim to fame
I think western was the school that has suffered the most since the arrival and dominance of the Dakota schools. They used to be a strong Valley squad and were a good summit team. They’ve been left out of the facilities arms race as they can’t keep up and it obviously shows
Re: Western Illinois claim to fame
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Professor Chaos
Western Illinois has actually produced a good amount of NFL talent. Frank Winters, Bryan Cox, Don Beebe, Rodney Harrison, Aaron Stecker, Mike Scifres, etc.
One claim to fame of theirs that I was just made aware of this last playoff season is their players had a sledgehammer swung at them during a wild end-of-game brawl against Western Kentucky in the 2002 D1AA playoffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mRQ5DKSeRI
Allegedly this is why the MVFC (Gateway back then) instituted the pre-game midfield handshake for the entire teams/coaching staffs before conference games. Both these teams were in the Gateway conference in 2002.
Holy shit that is brutal. It's like cmon dude it's a football game