Belligerent Beavs is a podcast-anchored content platform celebrating Oregon State athletics, but also beer and friendship. Hosted by Oregon State alumni and friends JP Bertram, Terry Horstman, and Benny Wehage, we are the Bebes and you are the #BeaverFam. We enjoy nothing more than when you join us in our revelry.
Just like a teenager or a TikTok Mommy Blogger, I have felt all the feels over the past weekend. I’ve been depressed, angry, sad, confused, and felt misunderstood. I’ve seen people who are supposedly on the same team as I am have wildly different takes that sometimes make me wonder if any of this is even worth it anymore.
Almost a decade later, I can still remember the feeling I had when I saw the first image of Mike Riley in a Nebraska polo. It was disorienting—something that had always seemed so familiar suddenly being so foreign. I had a friend who drove a 1970s VW Bus in college. It was creamsicle orange and had surf company stickers in the back window. As his time in Corvallis wound down, he decided to sell it. I never left the area, and neither did that VW bus.
In a business that awards departing, how do we adequately celebrate last men standing? In a world where it pays more to get out, what is left behind for those who stay home?