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Apple Cup rivalry: Couple鈥檚 ashes to be buried in UW, WSU helmets

Nov 25, 2022, 4:04 PM | Updated: 4:06 pm

kicks off for the UW Huskies and WSU Cougars this Saturday, but one married couple is taking the rivalry to their own eventual ‘end zone.’

UW alumni Chuck Nordquist and his own WSU rival and alumna wife, Bobbi, (hopefully) have no specific times or dates in mind for when they will eventually 鈥渒ick off,鈥 so to speak. But they do know what it will look like when their clocks tick to zero: in urns encased by separate college football helmets, holding their ashes for all eternity.

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And if there are any ashes left, Chuck wants to deposit and dedicate his at .

The plans started, Chuck told Wednesday鈥檚 Dori Monson Show, as a gift to his wife 鈥 whom he calls a 鈥渜uintessential Cougar.鈥

鈥淲hen you get to my age, there are only so many t-shirts you can buy,鈥 Chuck, UW class of 1975, joked with Dori about creative gift giving. In pursuit of 鈥渨eird Cougar stuff for her,鈥 the Husky husband found a 鈥減erfect Cougar helmet with the WSC and white cage鈥 burial urn on eBay.

Chuck鈥檚 impression? 鈥淭hat鈥檚 really cool.鈥

鈥淭ime out,鈥 Dori interjected. 鈥淲hat kind of message does that send?鈥

鈥淚 asked her first,鈥 explained Chuck, who resides with his lucky bride in Yuma, Ariz. “‘Would you like to spend time in eternity in a Cougar helmet?鈥 And I鈥檓 not kidding you: she got really excited. That would be beyond ‘wow.'”

Not to be outdone, he needed something for himself 鈥 but definitely in purple and gold.

That task, he told Dori, was a bit more daunting. The UW has licensing tied up pretty tight.

After hitting several blocks, Chuck scored. Tapping into some connections he had through Husky insiders, the former football film coach persuaded UW sports communications guru Jeff Bechtold to send him some stickers for a school-appropriate helmet of his own.

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Eventually, the ashes, urns, and helmets will reside in Minnesota, where both Chuck and Bobbi have roots and family. For the time being, they will watch Saturday鈥檚 games in separate rooms in their house to protect their marriage.

And if there are any, er, uh, leftover remains uncontained by his Husky helmet urn?

鈥淚 told Jeff Bechtold that from my size and the size of the helmet, if there鈥檚 a little spillage 鈥 any excess can go in the garbage cans at Dick鈥檚 Drive-In because at least a third of my body is made up of Dick鈥檚.鈥

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Apple Cup rivalry: Couple鈥檚 ashes to be buried in UW, WSU helmets