By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

As soon as Supwitchugirl’s Twitter and Facebook accounts went silent (not shut down, just quiet) about their “I Love My Ducks!” music video, that was the first clue that the controversial video was going to get played on Duck Vision during the Civil War.

The second clue was word that Nike and other sponsors were getting involved.

The third clue? Probably “I Love My Ducks!” t-shirts being sold at The Duck Store.

Indeed, an edited version of the video played on Duck Vision before the game, instead of the usual open.

But it all seemed strangely anti-climatic.

Here’s that version of “I Love My Ducks!”:

After all the completely unnecessary controversy surrounding this video (unnecessary on the University of Oregon Athletic Department’s part – completely necessary for Supwitchugirl), it seemed much ado about nothing.

A lot of teachable, and sellable, moments emerged over the course of this grudge match.

Too bad the people who should be interested in teaching, and selling, don’t have the Duck vision.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
University of Oregon Sports Information Department
Nov. 9, 2009

OREGON’S BLOUNT REINSTATED TO FOOTBALL PROGRAM
The running back continues to be held accountable for conditions that prompted reinstatement.

EUGENE – University of Oregon senior running back LeGarrette Blount has been reinstated to the Ducks’ football program and will be available to play Saturday when they host Arizona State in a game scheduled to kickoff at 7:20 p.m. (PST), according to an announcement from the school’s head coach Chip Kelly Monday.

Blount, who has missed Oregon’s last eight games after being suspended by Kelly following the season-opening loss at Boise State, has remained a member of the team and has participated in practice since the post-game incident which led to his suspension.

Kelly said he forwarded his recommendation for Blount’s reinstatement to Oregon Athletics Director Mike Bellotti Sunday night, who in turn passed it along to University President Richard Lariviere and Pacific-10 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott.

Blount’s suspension was originally announced to encompass the entire 2009 season, but Kelly announced on Oct. 2 the potential for reinstatement contingent upon the running back completing a series of conditions to the satisfaction of athletics department, University and Pac-10 officials. Kelly emphasized that Blount would continually be held accountable to those conditions for the remainder of the year.

“I’m grateful to Coach Kelly that he cares enough to offer me this second chance,” Blount said. “Now it is up to me to prove to people that their lasting impressions of me are not what they saw in Boise.

“When I am ready to address this further with the public and the media, I will do so,” Blount added. “Until that time, I feel my actions can speak louder than anything I could say. I just want to help my teammates who have been supportive of me.”

The Ducks’ 1,000-yard rusher from a year ago was held to minus 5 yards in his only appearance this year in a 19-8 loss at Boise State.

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(This photo of the Hawthorne Bridge is for illustration purposes only. Translation: it’s a pretty stock photo because we couldn’t find a good one of the Morrison Bridge.)

A DSN visitor emailed this to us earlier today…

Got a tip for you here, if you haven’t already heard it…

The Willamette Light Brigade plans to light the Morrison Bridge in downtown Portland in Purple and Gold this week. Ironic/angering timing considering the UW UO football game this weekend. Even as a diehard 3rd generation Beaver alumni this frustrates me. I can’t remember any OSU or UO heritage weeks recently? And to do that while 20000 duck fans drive by each day? I already emailed the contact at their website encouraging them to prepare for some serious flack from Duck/Pac10 Fans.

Willamette Light Brigade
http://www.lightthebridges.org/index.php

OK. I’m only familiar with “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, not the Willamete Light Brigade. Considering there’s something here that got a Beaver fan all worked up, I went to the source.

According the website, this is their purpose:

WHY LIGHT PORTLANDS BRIDGES?

To make the Willamette River and its bridges the visual focus of our city by night as well as by day.
To visually enhance the historic and remarkable features of the bridges.
To highlight and honor these structures which connect the mutually-dependant east and west neighborhoods of Portland.
To show in a bright and cheerful manner the civic pride felt by those who live and work here.
To strengthen positive impressions of our city gained by visitors, business and tourist alike.
To add a dimension of delight to river crossings.

Up until this point, I’m fine with all that. I like the idea of lighting up bridges. I think it should be done throughout the state. I don’t care what it costs. Wouldn’t lighting up the bridges over the Willamette and McKenzie rivers around Eugene add a little cheer and civic pride to those hideously boring pieces of architecture? Sure they would. And of course that’s why it will never happen. Because it makes sense.

But this is the part I don’t understand:

Purple and gold this week to celebrate the University of Washington and support the Huskies!

WHAT?! IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND? IN OREGON? AND WHY CAN’T YOU DO THIS IN VANCOUVER…WASHINGTON! OR BRITISH COLUMBIA! WHO IN THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS APPROVED THIS? WHAT BUREAUCRATIC MONKEY WITH THE CITY OF PORTLAND, MULTNOMAH COUNTY, THE STATE OF OREGON OK’D THIS? I WANT A HEAD ON A PLATTER NOW! I DEMAND SATISFACTION! I DEMAND JUSTICE!

Needless to say, this makes very little sense to me and has me quite perplexed.

I have but one question: could Duck fans get away with this in Seattle? (Because you know there are like 50,000 Oregon alumni up there.)

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Does this make sense to you?

If it does not, and you’re interested in bringing on “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade”, let them know at information@LightTheBridges.org.

“When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!”

JM, thanks for the tip.

- Duck Sports News staff

[UPDATE: Addicted to Quack has a good follow-up to this story here.]

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Here are some Duck wallpapers (for your desktop and iPhone) courtesy of our graphics department. Check back as we’ll be adding new ones often.

Desktop Wallpapers

To install, select an image resolution, wait for image to load, right-click and select “Set as Wallpaper”

2009 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

Download: 1920×1200, 1280×960, 1024×768

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iPhone Wallpapers

Installing wallpapers on your iPhone

Blackberry Wallpapers

Blackberry Storm Wallpapers (360×480)

Blackberry Tour & Curve Wallpapers (480×360)

Blackberry Bold Wallpapers (480×320)

More iPhone Wallpapers

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