How does ‘The Jackhammer’ do it? ‘I have no idea’ says the Beavers’ Colletto
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How does ‘The Jackhammer’ do it? ‘I have no idea’ says the Beavers’ Colletto

There is no spot for Jack Colletto on Oregon State’s football Mount Rushmore. They likely won’t put his likeness in bronze on campus. He won’t make any All-America teams or cause NFL scouts to swoon.

But it’s safe to say that in 125 years of football in Corvallis — from the Farmers to the Hayseeds to the Aggies to the Orangemen to the Beavers — there has never been a player quite like “The Jackhammer.”

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A game for the ages in the fog at Reser
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A game for the ages in the fog at Reser

Here is what’s on my mind after Friday’s epic 41-38 Oregon State victory over Oregon in the foggy, eerie solitude of Reser Stadium …

• The Beavers’ come-from-behind win over the ninth-ranked Ducks becomes an instant classic in this, the strangest of all football seasons in the most unsettling year of our lifetime.

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How would Beaver teams of the early ’80s and ’19-20 compare? There’s really no comparison
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How would Beaver teams of the early ’80s and ’19-20 compare? There’s really no comparison

Has anybody seen the website WhatIfSports.com? It is an interactive site that allows users to select sports teams from different eras and pit them against each other in a computer simulated game. It is an intriguing concept -- having players and teams from different eras compete as if they were in their respective primes.

I’m not sure how a computer decides whether Dr. J can rise over Giannis Antetokounmpo, but it certainly sparks debate.

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