Passion play washington

Coach Rick Neuheisel is a believer in the power of passion. The ardor of Huskies fans was one reason that he left Colorado two years ago for Seattle. After the game, however, neither Neuheisel nor his Huskies, who were ranked fourth in the nation, wasted an ounce of passion on laying claim to a share of the national championship if unbeaten and top-ranked Oklahoma lost to No. A Sooners defeat coupled with a Sugar Bowl win by No.

No, and so, after the clock expired on Monday, the Huskies turned loose their emotions in a different direction. They ran en masse to midfield, looked up to the press box and raised their helmets to and waved towels at Williams, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since making a tackle in Washington's win at Stanford on Oct.

They chanted "Cee! Neuheisel, who visited Williams at his Santa Clara, Calif. When the Huskies walked into their locker room before the game, they found Williams and members of his family waiting for them. The players, many in tears, filed by and kissed him on the forehead. On Washington's first possession, which started at its 36, Tuiasosopo called "Peg Left" in memory of Watson, who also had been the secretary to former Huskies coaches Don James and Jim Lambright.

When Neuheisel had visited Watson at her Seattle hospice before the team left for Pasadena, he asked her to call Washington's first play. In great detail Watson described a veer option on which Tuiasosopo was likely to keep the ball. That's what he did--and lost a yard, but it was one of the few plays that didn't work for him all afternoon. Nothing better illustrated the resiliency of the Huskies than the way in which they beat the Boilermakers. After Washington's leading receiver, Todd Elstrom, suffered a torn medial cruciate ligament in his right knee in a Dec.

Though the junior wideout played the entire game, he was not a downfield threat, and Washington could not stretch the defense in its accustomed manner. Instead, with an offensive line that averaged pounds more than the average of the Boilermakers' defensive linemen--the Huskies pounded Purdue on the ground. They won the Rose Bowl because in the second half they rushed for yards and controlled the ball for , thus keeping it out of the hands of Purdue's All-America quarterback, Drew Brees.

Tuiasosopo, a senior, who rushed for 75 yards and passed for en route to the Rose Bowl MVP award, overcame a bit of adversity as well.

Late in the third quarter Purdue linebacker Landon Johnson upended the Washington signal-caller, who landed on his right shoulder and sprained it. In fact, from through the play was performed regularly in Lake Wales, Florida. When Joseph Meier and his wife, Clare, retired in , their daughter and her husband, Guido Della Vecchia, took over. For over twenty years this amazing family kept the passion play going, even participating in leading roles year after year. I attended the passion play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, many years ago.

I can still picture the image of the resurrected Jesus rising to the heavens. I am pleased to report that the Great Passion Play still exists and has expanded. Altogether more than actors plus dozens of live animals come together on a three story, foot wide stage to put on this amazing rendition of the Greatest Story Ever Told. You would do well to get to Eureka Springs for an inspiring evening while it is still available.

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