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Oct 24, 2021Liked by Nam Le

"The romance of college football lives in afternoons like this one - fall Saturdays that are purposefully booked for old friends and fight songs and afternoon revelry, for the nostalgia of a time when you could love the program with a fearless intensity." What a beautiful sentence. Go Bears. Hopefully the season can be saved. Let's win the California Round Robin and go bowling.

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Slater Zellers becoming Cal's biggest menace LOL

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SUPER DARIO LONGHETTO!

This nickname needs to be known by any and all who follow Cal football.

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(Gobears49)

Like you sort of mention, if we beat a good OSU team then things might start to get interesting.

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How much of this win was Colorado being really bad? <ducks>

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(Gobears49)

Too bad we lost to Oregon. If we had won that game and beat OSU we would only be one game back of them in the Pac-12 North and one more loss by each of them could lead to Cal tying them in the North, with the tie breaker for the conference championship going to Cal. Still a very small chance that could still somehow happen, as there are several conference games left, but losing to Oregon reduced that chance by a lot.

https://pac-12.com/football/standings

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Excellent novella Nam and I really enjoyed the writing. It's a lot more fun to be behind the team and staff as fans then it is to lob criticism from the peanut gallery.

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David Long?? Darius Long

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I squinted enough to consider botox.

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