Tailgate/Game Notes

2006 began with the annual Red/White Scrimmage game on Saturday, April 22nd at Rice-Eccles Stadium.  We arrived around 10am to reserved spots next to the Utefans.net folks and their 'pirate ship' (btw thanks Webmonkey!).  We debuted the newest additions to our tailgate by setting up a newly purchased "Utah Utes" canopy and ping pong table.  Ping pong turned out to be quite the hit as even current Ute QB-Brett Ratliff and family joined us early on!  He was also kind enough to toss passes to two of our tailgaters (Tip & Troy) who both cradled the ball as if they were back in high school and never missed a beat.  Tip even donned the Ute helmet to make it look that much more realistic!  On the menu for the spring game were brats, dogs, kicked up chicken, and grilled fries.  Also, on hand were two early entries for the upcoming Salsa Contest (09/09/06 - vs NAU).  We were surrounded by free food (Famous Dave's BBQ) so there was no shortage of it around.  Joe showed up with his Husky t-shirt only to trash his team as apparently their spring practices haven't been going too well.  Overall, the spring game tailgate was a huge success as we numbered somewhere in the high 20's.

The game was just over an hour long with the "white" team coming out on top by scoring a touchdown on the last play from backup QB-Kevin Dunn to WR-Sean Smith.  The "red" team had to overcome a 16 point deficit to start the scrimmage.  QB-Ratliff made the throws and the reads and looked like the starter heading into this fall.  Oklahoma transfer QB- Tommy Grady however certainly made a case for himself by completing a couple of touchdown passes including one where he scrambled to this right and then threw on the run to WR-Richards in the corner of the end zone!