If you plan to have any dealings with anyone in the State of Hawai'i for the next couple of days, prepare to listen to your conversationalist rhapsodize about the University of Hawai'i football team for a few minutes before getting down to business.
Why?
UH defeated the University of Washington 35-28 last night in a thrilling come-from-behind victory, scoring the winning touchdown with 0:44 seconds left in the game, then intercepting the Huskies' last gasp pass in the end zone with :03 left.
That left UH as the only undefeated team in all of Division 1 college football, awaiting a call from the Bowl Championship Series nabobs. Assuming they get it, they'll be only the third non-BCS conference school ever to get into one of the big games (Utah in 2004, Boise State in 2006, and now Hawai'i).
Phew!
Update: UH will be playing Georgia in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on January 1 at 8:30pm ET.
Complete Bowl Schedule here.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 2, 2007 09:38 AM | TrackBackWhen did that apostrophe "i" become politically correct? It's been annoying the shit out of me for months.
Posted by: FKC at December 2, 2007 10:03 PMIt's an attempt to represent a glottal stop. Wikipedia's article about the Hawaiian language has it more or less right. It's the same thing as Mumbai vs. Bombay; a feeling the word should be pronounced the way the indigenous people whose word it originally was actually pronounced it.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 3, 2007 07:56 AMActually, it's a backward apostrophe and it's called an `okina. Along with the other diacritical marks in the written Hawaiian language, it helps haole boys like me pronounce local place names and only look half as foolish.
Posted by: Rob_in_Hawaii at December 3, 2007 06:29 PMBy the way, "Go 'Bows!" Oops, I mean, "Go Warriors!"
Posted by: Rob_in_Hawaii at December 3, 2007 06:53 PM