The Cal fan experience in 'Succession' terms
What does the greatest TV show of the last few years have to do with being a California Golden Bear? Lots, apparently.
(WARNING: Profanity, some R-rated memes and mild spoilers if you still haven’t watched it)
As Succession closes its story this weekend, it was hard to avoid the parallels between the dysfunctions of the Roy family and the dysfunctions of being a Cal fan. In tribute to one of the greatest television shows of our time, a reflection on some common experiences that define being a Cal fan through Succession quotes.
Most of these memes are courtesy of the nocontextroyco Twitter account.
Whenever I tell my friends about what California Golden Blogs was / Write For California is.
When Cal gives up the lead
When a Cal season is about to start
When a Cal season is about to start and you're already processing the end result
When Cal loses in expected fashion:
When Cal loses in a uniquely Cal way:
When Cal loses in a uniquely Cal way in a Pac-12 After Dark game
When you realize the good old days for Cal were not that good
When another rumor about the doom of the Pac-12 lingers
Old Cal fans talking about young Cal fans
Explaining the Cal fan experience to others
When picking Cal to win the Pac-12
When halfway through the season, looking back at picking Cal to win the Pac-12
When Cal takes the lead in the opening minutes
When non-Cal fans try to watch an hour of Cal with you
What other college fans think Cal fans are like
When a star Cal player is lost for the season before the season
When you try rooting for another Cal team for a week to ease the pain
When USC convinces UCLA to join the Big Ten
When Cal has to pay a buyout for a coach who doesn’t want to be there
When Cal loses that recruit that we all wanted for a month
When Cal starts doing Cal things and you’re trying to cope
When Cal starts doing Cal things for a season and you’re trying to cope
When Cal is holding on for dear life
When Cal is trailing by one score for an hour
When Cal loses by one score a few times in a row
When Cal is trailing by two scores for an hour
When Cal is trailing by double digits and you’re at the bar
When talking about how being a Cal fan makes you feel
When Cal is trailing by three scores and we want to talk about anything else
When Cal wins two games in a row and you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop
When Cal doesn’t win for a month
When Cal doesn’t win for two months
When Cal blows a game they should win with a uniquely Cal effort
When a Cal rival wins the Pac-12 again
When a Cal coach does something you disagree with
When it’s Big Game week
During Big Game week, looking at what Stanford alum did this year
When talking to a rival fan about their team’s questionable practices
When a Cal season is about to end and you’re booking vacation tickets
When Cal suddenly wins in unexpected fashion:
When Cal has a week of good offseason news after months of agony
When Cal has a month of good offseason news after months of agony
When Cal fans are two weeks out from the start of a new season
Hey that was funny and kinda sick. I liked it. But, still, can you take down that damn article that was written right after the Colorado game last season. I still upsets me.
Why be a university known for championship athletics, when you can be a university known for its tortured intellectuals?
This reminds me...when I was a freshman in the 70s, I got a survey in the mail about...social/sexual experiences as a college student. I thought, what the heck, let's do this. They said they'd send the results of the survey. Months later, I got an envelope. It turned out to be a photocopy of an article in the latest issue of Playboy. The article was about sex on college campuses. Berkeley was described as being the campus of tortured intellectuals.