Softy on Pritchard: "bury his fat West Linn lovin' face"

[StevensTechU]

This conversation has me wondering, who is a major Oregon honk with the largest platform? It isn't anybody at The Oregonian or Register Guard. Maybe Jordan Kent? Neil Everett doesn't do opinion pieces, so he's out. Josh Wilcox? Is it J-Hop or Matt Prehm and their off-maintstream websites?

Point is, there is no equivalent to Softy, let alone Softy, Millen, Huard, and the hoards of husky honks. Most people covering Oregon are actually journalists. What Ducks honks do exist, exist on the fringes.

[gogreen55]

I can't say, but I'm fairly sure that he barely noted Oregon's existence prior to "The Pick".

"The Pick" would have been around the time that Softy got done attending Bellevue Community College (he didn't have the grades to attend UW). They started putting this overweight kid (his producers called him Softy) on the air in 1997, when he was 24.

[Merganzer]

This conversation has me wondering, who is a major Oregon honk with the largest platform? It isn't anybody at The Oregonian or Register Guard. Maybe Jordan Kent? Neil Everett doesn't do opinion pieces, so he's out. Josh Wilcox? Is it J-Hop or Matt Prehm and their off-maintstream websites?

Point is, there is no equivalent to Softy, let alone Softy, Millen, Huard, and the hoards of husky honks. Most people covering Oregon are actually journalists. What Ducks honks do exist, exist on the fringes.

I agree, there isn't a counterpart on the Ducks side Jordan Kent will never pick the Ducks to lose, but its now pretty much seen as a joke, in a well meaning way. Former Duck, Anthony Newman can get, Honkish, but his platform is too small to amount to anything.
It's interesting, and brought up earlier here, that in Seattle, it's Husky, Husky, Husky. But on the airwaves in Portland, the radio hosts go out of their way to avoid saying anything that could be heard as pro-Oregon. Canzano made a point of emphasis that as a journalist he couldn't be a fan. I give him more credit for that than Fentress for example, who, for his entire time covering Oregon threw shade on anybody who said something positive about Oregon, while he, "kept it real".

[Phalanx]

Washington has a much clearer geographical distinction between UW and WSU, whereas Oregon and OSU are right next to each other. So while Portland media personalities are busy trying not to show favoritism, Seattle-area guys are more apt to be UW honks.

[OregonFan4Life]

This conversation has me wondering, who is a major Oregon honk with the largest platform? It isn't anybody at The Oregonian or Register Guard. Maybe Jordan Kent? Neil Everett doesn't do opinion pieces, so he's out. Josh Wilcox? Is it J-Hop or Matt Prehm and their off-maintstream websites?

Point is, there is no equivalent to Softy, let alone Softy, Millen, Huard, and the hoards of husky honks. Most people covering Oregon are actually journalists. What Ducks honks do exist, exist on the fringes.

Joe Ginsante was, but he hasn't been at Oregon for a while. His commentating/announcing was cringe worthy.