still blows my mind that we were #4 in the country, with only a last minute loss to #1, on the road, and ended up in the f'ing Holiday Bowl. Could only happen to Cal.
still blows my mind that we were #4 in the country, with only a last minute loss to #1, on the road, and ended up in the f'ing Holiday Bowl. Could only happen to Cal.
We were so mad we sold T-shirts in protest (and to fund our trip to San Diego and offsetting our now-worthless Rose Bowl tickets). Still saw some in the wild when we played Texas.
I was in NYC visiting a friend over winter break in 2004. He worked as a bartender during swing shift. He departed for work and I decided to take a train to ESPN zone to watch the game. Once there, I ran into two Cal alumni also watching and we watched/commiserated together. The next day, same routine, my friend goes to work, I hop on the train to go explore NYC, but not sure where. Lo and behold, the Cal alumni I met from the night before are on my train! They were headed to Little Italy for dinner, I joined, them and we never spoke again. The 2004 Holiday Bowl will always be associated with this serendipitous encounter.
still blows my mind that we were #4 in the country, with only a last minute loss to #1, on the road, and ended up in the f'ing Holiday Bowl. Could only happen to Cal.
We were so mad we sold T-shirts in protest (and to fund our trip to San Diego and offsetting our now-worthless Rose Bowl tickets). Still saw some in the wild when we played Texas.
I was in NYC visiting a friend over winter break in 2004. He worked as a bartender during swing shift. He departed for work and I decided to take a train to ESPN zone to watch the game. Once there, I ran into two Cal alumni also watching and we watched/commiserated together. The next day, same routine, my friend goes to work, I hop on the train to go explore NYC, but not sure where. Lo and behold, the Cal alumni I met from the night before are on my train! They were headed to Little Italy for dinner, I joined, them and we never spoke again. The 2004 Holiday Bowl will always be associated with this serendipitous encounter.
To think we were equivalent of making the 4 team College Football Playoffs worthy, that's amazing how good we were back then. But the doom...