Cal 'College GameDay' Sign Brainstorming Mega Thread

Crowdsourcing our way to College GameDay at Berkeley inanity

It’s Monday morning after a bye week, which means it’s an opportunity to reflect on the season so far, break down some stats and some tape.

🚨🚨🚨 JUST KIDDING COLLEGE GAMEDAY IS COMING TO BERKELEY AND WE ONLY HAVE DAYS TO PREPARE 🚨🚨🚨.

Whether you plan on showing up at 6:00 a.m. to enjoy the scene on Memorial Glade or you’re going to take in the spectacle from the comfort of home, here is a space to share ideas, workshop concepts, swap images, and prepare for the eyes of college football to land in Berkeley this Saturday.

First, important information from College Gameday’s website:

One of the most beloved traditions associated with College GameDay is the making of signs. No vulgar signs, .com, .net, .org, political or religious signs are allowed. For fans entering the pit, signs cannot be on poles or oversized. All signs brought to Saturday's taping will be inspected before entry and must abide by College GameDay's sign policies or will be removed.

That probably means that most of the “lol Berkeley is liberal” jokes are off the table, or at least puts you at risk of getting your sign taken away by ESPN.

I’m going to split the ideas into a few broad categories, and in some cases share what others are already working on. But duplicate signs aren’t a problem, and maybe seeing what others are doing will inspire new ideas from the crowd. Let’s dive in!

(Most of these ideas stem from this thread, thanks to all our Cal Twitter contributors!)

OSKI WEIRDNESS

All hail the dark lord!

Show your support for the one true religion: Oski worship

Turns out you can just photoshop Oski’s head onto just about anything and it’s immediately delightful/terrifying

RIVAL INSULTS

Calimony insults!

The best jokes? Simple and effective:

Frankly, just printing a big picture of Cal fans partying on the field at Stanford Stadium sounds like a great idea to me.

ACC JOKES

RANDOM MEMES

Element themed jokes (or really any nerd joke) is always a good choice:

This sign on a poster would be excellent:

And having fun with the stars of the team is never a bad idea:

How about photoshopping Kevin Moen knocking over various people/things?

OK Cal hive, here’s your spot to share ideas and come up with the best wacky hijinks possible. Go wild!