Best Apple Cup bets

My longtime friend and work collegue Todd started out 22 years ago betting, in our younger days, a 6 pack of Rainier Ale (also called Green Death). Over time we have evolved the bet through various beers and micro brews to the current day fine bottle of wine. I imagine, as we enter the twilight of our carrers the booty may eventually transform into a 6 pack of Ensure.

Go Cougs!!!!

Being favored each Apple Cup for what seems like the past decade, betting on the Cougs doesn't appear to be unsafe. I would do so anyway being an alum. Five years ago, living in Bend, Oregon, I was trying to convince my Husky roommate to make a bet. It required a large number of Jubelales at Deschutes Brewery, but he finally gave in. Needless to say, it was me who ended up streaking through downtown Bend the Sunday evening following Apple Cup. The next season, Cougs again favored, I ended up swimming in the semi-frozen Deschutes river to fulfill my end of the bargain. Haven't bet on the game since.

Afer my friends I graduated from college three years ago, we decided to make a replica of the apple cup with the losing team alums drinking out of the cup whatever the winning team decides to put into it.

In HS, I went for the Cougs (Go Cougs!) and he went for UW. The bet? Loser shaved his head. He lost. Especially nice because his hair was everything to him. The ironic thing? He still has a head full of hair...i'm the bald one!

One office I worked in had many Cougs and Fuskies, so the supervisors had a running bet of the loser singing the winners' fight song in the parking lot and in front of a large audience. How I enjoyed hearing "Fight fight fight for Washington State and vi-ctor--ry"

I once paid off my $20 bet with a Husky friend in dimes -- dropped into a jar of honey.

Four years ago when the cougs had arguably their best team ever, I bet my two coug friends on the game. Well the huskies won, and I had the pleasure of watching two grown men shave their legs. Goes to show you that even during their best year ever, cougs still suck!

I made a bet with my teacher on the infamous "Snow Game" in Pullman. When I arrived to school on Monday after the Husky loss, the classroom, and my desk, were covered in Coug decorations. She didn't cut a 4th grader much slack.

Well, I guess mine is not all that extreme, but I have a bet with a friend that the loser must wear the winners colors in public once a week for the next year. I am just thankful that I have yet to have to don the hated purple and yellow!

Last year my boyfriend and I, on our first date, made a bet on Apple Cup. Due to the Huskies losing he had to wear Cougar gear out to a bar one night. For someone who bleeds purple and gold this is a horrible punishment. Being a poor sport, like most Huskies, it took 9 months for him to pay up. Once he finally paid up I enjoyed every minute of it, as did his Cougar friends. Oddly enough he hasn't tried to make a bet this year.

About 10 or so years ago I bet a friend that the loser would have to shave the winners logo into his chest hair and wear a clear shirt(it was special made).We are both dark haired hairy chested guys so it made sense.That poor bastard had to wear that clear(stinky)shirt for a week with a WSU shaved into his chest. Oh! He is a snohomish fireman.Think he caught some crap?

In 1992, it was my dad's (Husky fan) turn to put up the bet. He said the loser had to run a mile for every point his team lost by. I made sure he ran every last one of those 19 miles. In 1994, my Dawg-fan brother obviously wasn't paying attention to dad just two years earlier and he put up the bet...the loser had to run the length of the practice field (in Pullman) in nothing but his boxers, singing the winning team's fight song. Needless to say, the home video of my brother in his boxers and cowboy boots, running on an icy, snowy practice field, butchering the words to the Cougar fight song will long live in our family.

Back in high school, a friend and I created a tradition where the loser had to pay the other in the amount of the point difference. 1 point equals one dollar. Well the year the Huskies won 51-3 in 2000, being the Coug, I had to cough up 48 big ones. However I was watching the game with a bunch of Coug fans and my story got around and eventually little by little, people chipped in. I eventually received enough where I only paid about 5 dollars of my own money.