Dave Walsh: University of Wyoming Sports, A Family Affair | Cowboy State Daily

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By Dave Walsh, Cowboy State Day by day

I like the “life classes discovered” as a participant in athletics. There are such a lot of issues one experiences when competing. 

Dealing with the highs and lows, and shifting ahead. The worth of teamwork and dedication, to call only a few. And, in fact, the assist of others who’re pricey to you, is so vital. 

And the way about when It turns into, very actually, a household affair. Like when brothers play with brothers, or sisters play with sisters. It’s a deep reference to custom and historical past when a son or daughter finally ends up taking part in the place their father or mom performed.

We now have seen this glorious present of custom and sheer affection for the packages on the College of Wyoming for years. I simply assume it’s so attention-grabbing, and a terrific present of respect, when a next-generation of Cowboys and Cowgirls find yourself representing Previous U-Dub in competitors. It’s the identical feeling a Wyoming alum will get when a son or daughter attends UW. We see it in all sports activities at Wyoming, and it’s particularly out entrance and a typical incidence for Wyoming soccer.

Simply final season we loved the senior 12 months of an excellent Cowboy linebacker, Ty Muma’s son, Chad Muma. Chad would go to the Jacksonville Jaguars within the third spherical of this 12 months’s NFL Draft. 

Cowboy Offensive Sort out, Frank Crum, returns this season for the Cowboys. Frank is a third-generation Wyoming Cowboy. Father Gary and grandfather Earl each wore the Brown and Gold. Jack Walsh, the son of former Cowboy, John Walsh, will swimsuit up for the Pokes this season. Nic Talich enters his first season for the Pokes, the redshirt-freshman linebacker carries on the Talich identify. Cory Talich and Jim Talich had been excellent Wyoming linebackers a era in the past.

Many seasons in the past, after I first went into the Wyoming Radio Community broadcast sales space, a Cowboy linebacker by the identify of Tim Gosar was making performs for the Pokes. Gosar was a Pinedale native, a junior that 12 months, and would play his senior season in 1985. The very subsequent season Tim’s youthful brother, Gaston, would turn into a Cowboy, and the subsequent season, in 1987, Pete Gosar would turn into a Wyoming soccer participant. 

Tim was the primary of three Gosar brothers to play for the Cowboys. Gaston and Pete would play collectively on the identical Cowboy soccer groups for 2 years. It was again then when the Gosars carried out so properly for the Cowboys, and Pinedale turned “Linebacker Metropolis”.

About that very same time, within the mid-1980’s, the Earl brothers, Craig and Sam, from Rawlins had been taking part in for the Cowboys. Jim and Marty Eliopulos, brothers from Cheyenne, had been Cowboy linebackers within the Eighties Jim and Marty’s Dad, Alex, wrestled at Wyoming.

A few decade later, proper on the flip of the century and the brand new millennium, a pair of Wyoming locals, who occurred to be brothers, had been taking part in Cowboy soccer collectively. They, just like the Gosar brothers, performed the identical place. The 2 brothers from Wheatland performed quarterback, and performed it properly. 

First got here Casey within the 12 months 2000. His youthful brother, Corey, would letter for the Pokes in 2002, and would function Casey’s back-up for 2 seasons. 

And a Bramlet would maintain down the beginning quarterback job by the 2005 season. Casey and Corey Bramlet would each be named “captains” their junior and senior seasons. Casey Bramlet nonetheless holds Cowboy profession passing data for yards, makes an attempt, and completions. He threw for 9,684 yards, was a sixth-round choose of the Cincinnati Bengals within the 2004 NFL Draft and would play 4 seasons within the NFL with the Bengals, the Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins.

After all, this show of custom and loyalty inside households has been occurring for so long as Cowboy Soccer has been performed. The famend Simpson household has been represented. Father Milward Simpson was a senior on the Cowboy Soccer group in 1920. The previous Wyoming governor’s son, Alan, lettered for the Pokes in 1952. 

Through the years there was a so-called “passing of the torch” by many. I suppose it’s considerably pure to turn into a fan as a teen of the college and group that your mom or father or sister or brother attended and performed for. And it’s very pure to need to compete for the Cowboys and Cowgirls in case your mother or dad or sister or brother did.

It’s very a lot a group effort, a household effort, in terms of carrying on the household identify within the Brown and Gold.

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