Help us beat Stanford (and the rest of the Pac-12)

And also help a great charitable cause at the same time!

Many of you are likely familiar with the annual Every Day Should Be Saturday charity bowl. Spencer Hall, Holly Anderson, and the rest of the EDSBS crew put lots of effort into rallying the college football community to support New American Pathway, an Atlanta-based charity that helps refugees get settled and established. Things like housing, job assistance, child services, or anything else that helps lead towards self-sufficiency.

Honestly, that’s enough right there. But the extra fun? COMPETITIVE SPITE DONATIONS. The charity bowl requires you to donate on behalf of your school, ideally in a way that reveals the way in which your rival sucks (more on that below). How do you donate? Here’s the link:

Holly Anderson @HollyAnderson

💣 ‘nother quick Charity Bowl note before we really get cracking; there’s a different mobile code this year. donate via edsbscharitybowl.com or texting Charitybowl21 to 91999. if you already donated using last year‘s mobile code, that’s fine, we got it, don’t cancel it!

And how competitive is the 2021 edition of the charity bowl? Right now Cal fans are proving who’s best in the west:

NewAmericanPathways @newampaths

#CharitibundiBowl Here are Cal and Stanford displaying continued dominance over UCLA and USC, just like in real life:

But that lead isn’t guaranteed to stick around. There are plenty of Johnny-come-lately Oregon fans, and Arizona State has a bit of a built-in advantage this year:

Holly Anderson @HollyAnderson

🧯new #charitibundibowl rule going into effect tomorrow: if you write in something weird and we can’t tell what team it’s supposed to be for, your money is going to Arizona State, we don’t have time to mess around and it’s probably where everyone should go to school anyway

But good news! If you donate between now and Friday, and either tag @aguynamednam on twitter or provide proof of your donation in the comments of this article, your donations up to $2,000 will be matched by an anonymous Cal fan:

GET WELL SOON BRETT @AGuyNamedNam

Okay Cal Twitter. Tomorrow, let's do what something we do very well, and rally to raise some more money for @newampaths. An anonymous donor reached out to me to say they'd match any donations up to $2000 for us in between now and Friday.

“Nick” you might ask, “can you give me some examples of how to donate in a way that maximizes humiliation of Stanford/other rivals?” FRIEND I’M GLAD YOU ASKED!

A good choice? NERD SCIENCE BURNS:

Terence Lau @terencelau

@HollyAnderson 97 for the atomic number of Berkelium, 00 for the atomic number of Stanfordium which doesn't exist. #makehimsmooth @WriteForCal

Pocho Villa 🇲🇽 @CasaDeHank

Here’s some more science for ya. $50 for every element on the periodic table discovered at Cal. Go Bears. Still no stanfurdium

Holly Anderson @HollyAnderson

I Fucking Love Science ™ https://t.co/DbojaSE2xw

Maybe you’d prefer to highlight some notable Cal wins:

Cal Rivals @CalRivals

To all Cal fans that wish to donate for this event, we have a few recommendations for fun numbers. 1. 25.20, in remembrance of a busted trombone 2. 70.22, for when Kevin Steele was down to Cal 35-0 after one quarter. 3. 15.14, for when Chase Garbers gave the 'Fight-Off'

Holly Anderson @HollyAnderson

*if you are new here: 1) welcome, 2) we are about to try and raise a whole lot of money for @newampaths, a thing we attempt every year on behalf of our idiot college football collective, an institution once known as Every Day Should Be Saturday, 3) join us, won't you?

. . . like when Jahvid Best humiliated UW:

Trace Travers @tracetravers3

51.18, for the time @J4hvidbest ran for 311 yards on Washington in a 48-7 Cal win (48.07+3.11)

Holly Anderson @HollyAnderson

Georgia I can't believe how far y'all are dragging behind already, it's not like you have to tithe, get in here: https://t.co/xyj255qY1Z #CharitibundiBowl

. . . or when Aaron Rodgers humiliated UW:

Vlad Belo @GoldenBearVlad

$54.07 plus processing charge for the day Jeopardy host @AaronRodgers12 and the Cal offense jeopardized Washington's defense for 54 points and 729 yards. #GoBears #Donate

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs

We ask followers/listeners to donate in a very specific format: in the form of a score of a game where your team/school destroyed the hopes and dreams of a rival

My first donation was a bit more personal:

Nicolas Kranz @NorCalNickW4C

$5 each in honor of all 41 wonderful refugee students my Cal grad wife @Aee2005 has taught over the years gets us to $205 @HollyAnderson @edsbs

But I’m considering a couple of Stanford embarrassments for donation #2 later this week:

Nicolas Kranz @NorCalNickW4C

@CalRivals $___ for every Cal sack in the 2005 Big Game or every @CoachMcArthur6 catch in the 2003 Big Game are two of my favorites

Whether you donate $12.10 to commemorate Evan Weaver’s interception to beat UW, or $135.00 to remember a particularly brutal Cal rugby win over Stanford, there’s no wrong total. The important thing? SPITE! Just make sure to earn your picture of Spencer by Friday night, when the officially competitive portion of the charity bowl ends. DONATE BEARS!