MY 1951 BA FROM CAL LEFT ME EXPERIENCED WITH THE JOY OF HAVING ATTENDED THREE CAL ROSE BOWLS. SO, I WAS LEFT HOPING TO ATTEND JUST ONE MORE CAL ROSE BOWL GAME BEFORE I DIED. I PLEADED WITH THE GODS OF FOOTBALL FOR JUST ONE MORE ROSE BOWL EXPERIENCE. MOST OF MY FRIENDS AND FRAT BROS. HAD DIED BEFOR 11/25/23 BUT I WAS GIFTED BECAUSE MY PRAYERS HAD BEEN ANSWERED ON THAT OCCASSION AND IT WAS BETTER FOR ME THAN I EXPEXTED BECAUSE THIS ROSE BOWL WE WON AFTER HAVING LOST IN MY FIRST THREE ROSE BOWL GAMES. SO...IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIIS! GERBEAR CAL'51
ACCORDINGLY IT WILL BE "GO BEARS" NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!!! THERE'S ONLY ONE CAL BEAR!!
Some say it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. Now substitute love for "watched Cal in the Rose Bowl" and, man, it is tough. Thank you for sharing.
This is beautiful. It shows the power and mystery of prayer. The good Lord doesn’t always come when we expect him to, but He always comes on time. Go Bears, Mr. Colvin, and thank you for this gift of gratitude.
Well put. The past couple of weeks have been some of my more memorable as a Cal fan, maybe because of low expectations, but certainly also because of these being the last games in a conference we all assumed would be here forever. Special thanks to my wife and child for leaving the state at an opportune time, which allowed me the freedom to go to travel to these games!
TD: Great article but I have to slightly disagree on one point. ESPN DID NOT help destroy the conference. The people most responsible for its destruction were Scott, Kliavakoff and inept and/or greedy administrators. Remember that it was ESPN who offered TWICE to bail out the conference by absorbing the Pac-12 networks and with annual pay-outs in the $30 million per year range (Cal and Stanfurd won't be seeing TV payouts in this range for a while). Let's not forget that Kliavakoff did try to get the university presidents to agree to expansion by poaching some of the Big-12 teams but he was told absolutely no by U$C. Is it a coincidence that the scumbag Trojans bolted to the Big-10 only a year after saying no to expansion that might have saved the conference? I don't think so. I agree with Jon Wilner that there were "a lot of fingerprints on the murder weapon" when it comes to trying to understand the demise of the Pac-12 but, as far as I am concerned, the University of Spoiled Children will ultimately shoulder much of the blame (along with the idiot administrators who refused ESPNs SECOND offer to save the conference) for the demise of the Pac-12. As I stated in a previous post, karma is a bitch so I hope that the LA schools really enjoy themselves freezing their asses off in November and December. I went to grad. school at Northwestern and let me tell you, winters in the mid-west ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!!!!
this is fair, I could've added in USC and UCLA to this but wanted to keep it as big picture as possible. We all know how culpable they are, but at that point its the same song different verse. The admin.....well yeah they are the admin goodness gracious
My moniker is aspirational (i.e. named after the Jan 1 game, not the venue). I've been to a bunch of games at the Rose Bowl, but the last time I saw Cal win there was 1991. I was sitting with my Bruin brother and his friends, and Doug Brien kicked a late game-winning FG
MY 1951 BA FROM CAL LEFT ME EXPERIENCED WITH THE JOY OF HAVING ATTENDED THREE CAL ROSE BOWLS. SO, I WAS LEFT HOPING TO ATTEND JUST ONE MORE CAL ROSE BOWL GAME BEFORE I DIED. I PLEADED WITH THE GODS OF FOOTBALL FOR JUST ONE MORE ROSE BOWL EXPERIENCE. MOST OF MY FRIENDS AND FRAT BROS. HAD DIED BEFOR 11/25/23 BUT I WAS GIFTED BECAUSE MY PRAYERS HAD BEEN ANSWERED ON THAT OCCASSION AND IT WAS BETTER FOR ME THAN I EXPEXTED BECAUSE THIS ROSE BOWL WE WON AFTER HAVING LOST IN MY FIRST THREE ROSE BOWL GAMES. SO...IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIIS! GERBEAR CAL'51
ACCORDINGLY IT WILL BE "GO BEARS" NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!!! THERE'S ONLY ONE CAL BEAR!!
Some say it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. Now substitute love for "watched Cal in the Rose Bowl" and, man, it is tough. Thank you for sharing.
This is beautiful. It shows the power and mystery of prayer. The good Lord doesn’t always come when we expect him to, but He always comes on time. Go Bears, Mr. Colvin, and thank you for this gift of gratitude.
Womp ‘em,
Side a the head.
A feel-good story well-earned and well-written. Thank you.
Amen and let's go bowling.
Well put. The past couple of weeks have been some of my more memorable as a Cal fan, maybe because of low expectations, but certainly also because of these being the last games in a conference we all assumed would be here forever. Special thanks to my wife and child for leaving the state at an opportune time, which allowed me the freedom to go to travel to these games!
TD: Great article but I have to slightly disagree on one point. ESPN DID NOT help destroy the conference. The people most responsible for its destruction were Scott, Kliavakoff and inept and/or greedy administrators. Remember that it was ESPN who offered TWICE to bail out the conference by absorbing the Pac-12 networks and with annual pay-outs in the $30 million per year range (Cal and Stanfurd won't be seeing TV payouts in this range for a while). Let's not forget that Kliavakoff did try to get the university presidents to agree to expansion by poaching some of the Big-12 teams but he was told absolutely no by U$C. Is it a coincidence that the scumbag Trojans bolted to the Big-10 only a year after saying no to expansion that might have saved the conference? I don't think so. I agree with Jon Wilner that there were "a lot of fingerprints on the murder weapon" when it comes to trying to understand the demise of the Pac-12 but, as far as I am concerned, the University of Spoiled Children will ultimately shoulder much of the blame (along with the idiot administrators who refused ESPNs SECOND offer to save the conference) for the demise of the Pac-12. As I stated in a previous post, karma is a bitch so I hope that the LA schools really enjoy themselves freezing their asses off in November and December. I went to grad. school at Northwestern and let me tell you, winters in the mid-west ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!!!!
this is fair, I could've added in USC and UCLA to this but wanted to keep it as big picture as possible. We all know how culpable they are, but at that point its the same song different verse. The admin.....well yeah they are the admin goodness gracious
Hope the Pac-12 TV crew will find a gig nearby. I will miss them.
A great story! 🙏
Rose Bowl Oski must have been overjoyed Saturday night!
I was indeed, sitting on the sofa between my Golden Bear daughter and my Bruin daughter (who is a Cal fan, except when playing uc los angeles).
Figured for sure you would be there in person! Last chance, probably ever?
My moniker is aspirational (i.e. named after the Jan 1 game, not the venue). I've been to a bunch of games at the Rose Bowl, but the last time I saw Cal win there was 1991. I was sitting with my Bruin brother and his friends, and Doug Brien kicked a late game-winning FG