Avinash: Your writing would make The Onion proud! However, let's not bash on the trees too much. Our fan attendance has only been slightly better and Shaw has an uncanny knack for pulling out wins over Cal when he shouldn't. Football gods, pray for us.
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.
And you can see how that financial aid arrangement benefits the wealthy Stanford students who can afford to drop and coast along at the expense of the ones on aid who actually have to work?
The point is it's an institution that derives its value from wealth inequity.
Sooooo good. Especially after we laid a stinking donkey egg in Wazzu... We suck slightly less.
Some welcome bye-week schadenfraude. 👏🏻
Avinash: Your writing would make The Onion proud! However, let's not bash on the trees too much. Our fan attendance has only been slightly better and Shaw has an uncanny knack for pulling out wins over Cal when he shouldn't. Football gods, pray for us.
I will say, I watched a bit of this game and was surprised the Lobsterbacks played this well. I think they are improving a bit
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. ;-)
Best snark of the season, thus far.
And, yes, mocking is coming.
*GOT Theme
Short those red shares to the tune of Take off that red shirt
You'll have a better outcome looking directly at Medusa than a Stanfurd student who takes off their red shirt.
This is the greatest post in the history of posts
Let’s beat both these teams
Probably gonna be necessary if this Cal team is gonna bowl.
If this team fails to bowl for a 2nd straight year, seasons 5 and 6 for Wilcox, then he’s probably not the answer at HC.
Be careful whom ye mock, lest soon it be ye who deserves said mocking.
We are Cal fans, we know the mocking is coming. We must mock while we can.
Cal fans cannot be harmed by mere mocking
Mock, mock, mocking on Heaven’s door…
Maybe we shouldn't be mocking anyone but we should ALWAYS be mocking Furd. It's in the Cal DNA.
You are correct, sir!
We can mock Stanfurd anytime
Nah, you're right, we should all just sit around and fart on our hands until Cal plays in Pasadena on a January 1st.
And you can see how that financial aid arrangement benefits the wealthy Stanford students who can afford to drop and coast along at the expense of the ones on aid who actually have to work?
The point is it's an institution that derives its value from wealth inequity.
Wait, Stanfurd has value? ;-)
Cal: most Peace Corps volunteers of any school.
Stanford: notable grads and/or dropouts Josh Hawley, Blake Masters, Elizabeth Holmes, Tiger Woods are all working to make the world a better place.
On this point, gimme a break, we can troll no matter what the football teams are doing.