Brilliant!!! You need a follow up for Big Game week.
On another note, it's really sad how few real fans show up for CAL, Stanfurd, USC and UCLA games. What has changed? Is it that game day in Woke California doesn't allow for big frat parties with drinking and wild sex anymore where the assembled masses would make a Saturday pilgrimage …
Brilliant!!! You need a follow up for Big Game week.
On another note, it's really sad how few real fans show up for CAL, Stanfurd, USC and UCLA games. What has changed? Is it that game day in Woke California doesn't allow for big frat parties with drinking and wild sex anymore where the assembled masses would make a Saturday pilgrimage to their stadium? Something in the social order has changed. Maybe football has too much toxic masculinity? (LOL! I am just being my version of the Onion).
I became a Cal football fan in the Bruce Snyder era. I remember being able to roam around the stadium and sit wherever I wanted in half empty Memorial in Snyder's first three losing seasons. In the 1990 and 91 seasons, when Cal arguably had its best 2-year run in school history, you gratefully sat in your assigned seat because the stadium was full.
That will happen again if and when the Cal administration decides to get serious about putting a consistently winning product on the field. And all those woke students will come back in droves, too.
"In the 1990 and 91 seasons, when Cal arguably had its best 2-year run in school history" The Bears were a combined 17-6-1 in those two years and you think that was "arguably' their best two-year run? How about 18-6 in '04 and '05? Or 20-2 from '48 to '49? Or 20-1-1 from '37 and '38? Or 18-0-1 from '20-'21 and '22-'23? We need to start teaching Cal football history 101. Kids these days....
I said "arguably," and here's my argument. I think the 1991 and 2004 seasons were the single greatest seasons in modern Cal history, and they cancelled each other. Cal had their Rose Bowl dreams spoiled by once in a generation national championship Pac 12 teams in both periods. In that epic 1991 game, they ran up against Steve Emtan and Dana Hall and came within a pass in the endzone of winning. In the 2004 game, Aaron Rodgers set the consecutive pass completion record for Cal, but came up against Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart and came within a pass in the endzone of winning.
But sorry, the 90-91 seasons were overall better because Cal had Mike Pawlaski as their quarterback, and the 2005 team had a guy named Joe Ayoob as their QB. Ayoob was better known for setting the distance record for flying a paper airplane.
As for 1950 and previous, guys folded up their helmets and put them in their pockets. None of us were around to see it except for grainy film spool footage. Although I must admit that I would have liked to have seen Jackie Jensen in his heyday.
The '90 team choked in the Big Game and the heavily-favored '91 got blown out in a penalty fest. That eliminates them from consideration. All the other teams won both their Big Games.
Brilliant!!! You need a follow up for Big Game week.
On another note, it's really sad how few real fans show up for CAL, Stanfurd, USC and UCLA games. What has changed? Is it that game day in Woke California doesn't allow for big frat parties with drinking and wild sex anymore where the assembled masses would make a Saturday pilgrimage to their stadium? Something in the social order has changed. Maybe football has too much toxic masculinity? (LOL! I am just being my version of the Onion).
I became a Cal football fan in the Bruce Snyder era. I remember being able to roam around the stadium and sit wherever I wanted in half empty Memorial in Snyder's first three losing seasons. In the 1990 and 91 seasons, when Cal arguably had its best 2-year run in school history, you gratefully sat in your assigned seat because the stadium was full.
That will happen again if and when the Cal administration decides to get serious about putting a consistently winning product on the field. And all those woke students will come back in droves, too.
"In the 1990 and 91 seasons, when Cal arguably had its best 2-year run in school history" The Bears were a combined 17-6-1 in those two years and you think that was "arguably' their best two-year run? How about 18-6 in '04 and '05? Or 20-2 from '48 to '49? Or 20-1-1 from '37 and '38? Or 18-0-1 from '20-'21 and '22-'23? We need to start teaching Cal football history 101. Kids these days....
I said "arguably," and here's my argument. I think the 1991 and 2004 seasons were the single greatest seasons in modern Cal history, and they cancelled each other. Cal had their Rose Bowl dreams spoiled by once in a generation national championship Pac 12 teams in both periods. In that epic 1991 game, they ran up against Steve Emtan and Dana Hall and came within a pass in the endzone of winning. In the 2004 game, Aaron Rodgers set the consecutive pass completion record for Cal, but came up against Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart and came within a pass in the endzone of winning.
But sorry, the 90-91 seasons were overall better because Cal had Mike Pawlaski as their quarterback, and the 2005 team had a guy named Joe Ayoob as their QB. Ayoob was better known for setting the distance record for flying a paper airplane.
As for 1950 and previous, guys folded up their helmets and put them in their pockets. None of us were around to see it except for grainy film spool footage. Although I must admit that I would have liked to have seen Jackie Jensen in his heyday.
The '90 team choked in the Big Game and the heavily-favored '91 got blown out in a penalty fest. That eliminates them from consideration. All the other teams won both their Big Games.
Yes, but Joe Ayoob?
And the same thing (full stadiums) happened during that Tedford run too.
Oh yeah, we filled it up during Mike White's years. But there were also big frat parties and lots of drinking and sex on game weekends. ;-)