Brace yourself, Cougar fans.
Jack Thompson, the Throwin’ Samoan and WSU icon, almost become a Husky.
In fact, he would have, had Husky coach Jim Owens not stood his family up. Of course, it all worked out in the end. But it certainly wasn’t how Thompson envisioned things while growing up just south of Seattle city limits and starring as a quarterback at Evergreen High School in White Center.
His father loved the Huskies, and so did he, proudly wearing a Sonny Sixkiller UW No. 6 jersey.
“I wanted to be a Husky,” said Thompson, 62, who moved from American Samoa to the U.