‘Do You Remember The Time, Mike …’
U-Owe-Us Bank presents the audio outtakes from our friendly dinner with Mike Price and Jim Lambright, the commercial that’s been running on the radio every half hour since September to the point where you hope a tree falls on your car just so you won’t have to hear it again:
Lambright: Do you remember, Mike, when we were in Everett …
Price: You’re from Everett, too? Do you know Dennis Erickson? He’s a good friend of mine.
Lambright: Uh-huh.
Price: I voted his team No. 1 one year in the coaches’ poll, remember?
Lambright: I remember, Mike. You told everybody right before the Apple Cup. I remember we were undefeated that year, too, but you didn’t vote for us.
Price: Hey, honesty is the best policy, Lambo.
Lambright: Well, it sure saved us the trouble of a pregame pep talk.
Price: That reminds me - do you remember last year, when you decided to use Apple Cup week to campaign for a better bowl game?
Lambright: I still say the Cotton Bowl was crazy. We have more TV stations than Eugene, our newspapers are bigger, our rock bands have produced more platinum albums …
Price: That’s nothin’.
Lambright: That’s demographics, baby. If you can’t beat ‘em, outnumber ‘em.
Price: Guess you must have had ‘em outnumbered in the Sun Bowl, then.
Ad agency flack: Hey, guys, don’t forget to mention the bank once in a while, OK?
Lambright: Sure, you bet. I once applied for a loan before halftime and got it by the third quarter.
Price: Was that you? I thought it was Billy Joe Hobert.
Lambright: Do you remember, Mike, that game against Arizona in ‘94, when you didn’t call timeout and Tony the Toe missed the field goal that would have tied the game and kept you in the Rose Bowl picture?
Price: Do I ever. And how about the USC game last year, when the Trojans tied it up with 33 seconds left and you decided to just run out the clock - when a victory would have put you in the Rose Bowl?
Lambright: Speaking of the Trojans, what was the deal that time when your game plan was to rotate three quarterbacks against them?
Price: Don’t remember. But I remember your USC game in ‘94 when you’d have killed for one of my three quarterbacks to put in there.
Lambright: Tell me about quarterbacks, Mr. Risk Taker. What was it that you used to tell Chad Davis? Secure the football?
Price: And what was it you used to tell Damon Huard? Secure Brock Huard?
Ad agency flack: Uh, Mike, maybe this is a good time for the song?
Price: Sure thing. Thinking about the Apple Cup and beating the Huskies in the blizzard in Pullman, there’s only one thing I have to say. Hit it, boys!
It had to be Drew,
It had to be Drew,
He scrambled around,
And finally found,
Somebody who
Could catch what he threw,
Could catch what he threw… .
Lambright: Hey, Coach Price, don’t give up your day job.
Ad agency flack: We’re running out of tape here, fellas.
Price: Did you really tell the press that Rashaan Shehee hurt his heel in practice when he actually did it jumping off a balcony at a party? Nice credibility move, Lambo.
Lambright: I’m talking credibility with a guy who once dressed up as Sparky the Sun Devil to motivate his players? Hey! Do you remember the time you shut out UCLA, but the Spokesman ran a picture of me being carried off the field after we beat Miami - and then identified me as you?
Price: Do I remember? That was the 84th time I’ve canceled my subscription.
Lambright: Whoa. You must have really been mad.
Price: Not as mad as I was when they ran that drawing of me with a monkey on my back. Why couldn’t they have switched pictures then?
Ad agency flack: OK, guys, that’s a wrap.
Price: Can you believe U-Owe-Us Bank dumped its sponsorship of high school championships and now they’re doing these lame commercials?
Lambright: You’ve got to be kidding!
Price: Hey, do you remember when I won that game in November?
Lambright: Yeah, Mike, but I’m probably the only one. , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: 2 Color Photos
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = John Blanchette The Spokesman-Review