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The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - metsjetsfan - 11-06-2011

A LOT of people across the nation are going to be paying attention to this game!!  This is going to be biggest spotlight for Stanford athletics in a LONG time (dare I say, ever?)

With Gameday coming to town and an 8pm EST kickoff, this game is already perceived as the game of the week for casual fans.  Fans of Boise State, Alabama, Oklahoma, and other teams still in the NCG hunt will be watching in hopes that we lose.  OK State will be watching for obvious reasons, especially if they take care of business at their 12:00 EST kickoff.  NFL fans, particularly in Miami/Indiana, will want to watch the messiah Luck against the best team Stanford has faced this year.  EVERYONE WILL BE WATCHING!!

(in high school girl voice) I'M SO EXCITED!

LETS GOOOOOO STANFORD. Beat the Ducks, and we will OFFICIALLY make our mark on the national stage!

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - Be Loud For Oregon - 11-06-2011

It will be an amazing game. Gameday coming to Stanford shows the true testament of how far we have come in five years. And get loud and crazy for the game!


Spread the word on Facebook to be LOUD at the game
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Be-Loud-at-Stanford-vs-Oregon/258616330852660


Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - OutsiderFan - 11-06-2011

Stanford would be laughed at en masse across the country if too many people from other schools see Stanford needs a Facebook page to encourage people to get excited for the biggest game in the program's history.  What a sad commentary.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - yvonne - 11-06-2011

We also had a grassroots campaign to promote Toby Gerhart for Voldemort. He went from unknown to runner up in the tightest voting ever. I'd say the campaign was pretty successful.

We're new to Gameday and to being in national championship contention, but we'll use our own methods to drum up interest.

Now, if I were a fan of a team that hadn't been to the Rose Bowl since 1959, I might have to start a Facebook page with directions for how to find I-5. Then, people would really laugh at me.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - estephan500 - 11-07-2011

(11-06-2011, 11:07 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:.. Stanford needs a Facebook page to encourage people to get excited

Actually, it is exactly in doing dorky stuff like setting up that FB page that any college team ever got brobdingnagian noise from their fans.  Yep, I also slightly prefer those that don't come in facebook blue, but whatever spreads the screams.

Also -- Luck can let us know if we should shut up during our offense. If I was going to be there I would be bellowing on both sides of the ball.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - yvonne - 11-07-2011

You need to keep it down when your team is trying to snap the ball. Otherwise, they can't hear the play call. You can yell all you want during and after the play. Yell when the other team is trying to snap the ball to disrupt the cadence of the snap and to make it difficult to hear the plays that are being called.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - fullmetal - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 01:11 AM)estephan link Wrote:Also -- Luck can let us know if we should shut up during our offense. If I was going to be there I would be bellowing on both sides of the ball.

Why would you want to make Stanford Stadium a hostile experience for the Stanford team?

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - Leftcoast - 11-07-2011

Estephan -

I sit right behind the team and the bench often motions for the crowd to be quiet when folks are yelling during our snap count.  It's good advice for most football fans but particularly important for Stanford/Luck which audibles frequently at the line of scrimmage.

So scream your head off, bang the chair in front of you and jump up and down when the ducks have the ball or Stanford gets a first down but put your hands in your pocket and pretend you are at a Yo-Yo Ma concert when Luck approaches the line.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - oman - 11-07-2011

(11-06-2011, 11:07 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:Stanford would be laughed at en masse across the country if too many people from other schools see Stanford needs a Facebook page to encourage people to get excited for the biggest game in the program's history.  What a sad commentary.

Eh, not really.  I think Stanford is always looked at with a nice healthy mixture of amusement and envy. 

People know we aren't a football factory and our student body multitasks. 

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - CowboyIndian - 11-07-2011

(11-06-2011, 11:07 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:What a sad commentary.
Why? Because there are better things to do (including sleep) than going out and acting like an idiot at the behest of the $EC hype machine? "You better show up en masse or we'll know you all can't really play football out here." I can see the potential recruiting benefits of having those guys here but it's not going to change the way I feel about the game...or its importance. If you want to start recruiting Cliff Harris and Jordan Jefferson, maybe....

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - Farm93 - 11-07-2011

(11-06-2011, 11:36 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:We also had a grassroots campaign to promote Toby Gerhart for Voldemort. He went from unknown to runner up in the tightest voting ever. I'd say the campaign was pretty successful.

We're new to Gameday and to being in national championship contention, but we'll use our own methods to drum up interest.

Now, if I were a fan of a team that hadn't been to the Rose Bowl since 1959, I might have to start a Facebook page with directions for how to find I-5. Then, people would really laugh at me.

According to Wikipedia, I-5 was built around 1957.  So my guess is that fans might not have used I-5 to get to Pasadena back in very early 1959.  Hard to know.  I wonder if any C.a.l Lurker has a grandparent or great grandparent that may have once mentioned the route they took to that game.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - deepred - 11-07-2011

(11-06-2011, 11:36 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:Now, if I were a fan of a team that hadn't been to the Rose Bowl since 1959, I might have to start a Facebook page with directions for how to find I-5. Then, people would really laugh at me.

C'mon now. We know that team knows the way to the Rose Bowl; they go every other year. In fact, they just got beat badly a couple of weeks ago. What they haven't done is travel to the Rose Bowl in January.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - OutsiderFan - 11-07-2011

My apologies to the true Stanford fans that care about winning and losing, and actually stand and scream for Stanford at football games.  This message isn't for you.  This is a little outside perspective for those who cast aspersions on people who do stand and scream at sports events, and are still interested enough in sports to read this board...

You can't pretend something isn't that important until it is, and then complain when people are dismissive of you when you do show you care.

Reminds me of when Stanford upset USC.  The default position for Stanford fans at the time was "we're better than USC because we're not a football factory.  Who cares if they beat us in football."  Then, after the upset, you see Stanford fans going around in T-shirts touting the victory, as if it was a meaningful accomplishment.  If it was meaningful to win it was meaningful to lose.  Not too many Stanford people had the courage to admit losing mattered, but a whole lot eagerly proclaimed winning did.

If Stanford loses to Oregon it doesn't matter.  Stanford is really superior because it doesn't recruit Cliff Harris. But if Stanford wins there will be a hue and cry about why Stanford isn't #2 in the BCS rankings.  That attitude is a brobdingnagian turnoff.  You'll be liked a whole lot more by admitting losing sucks (you can even add it isn't the end of the world).  Don't act like anyone that stands and cheers for a team - more frequently than you have deemed appropriate - just isn't as good as you, and you'll even earn respect.

California fans suck because they tolerate and rationalize losing too much.  However, at least they are strong enough to admit losing hurts, don't need instructions on how to support their team, and will show it long before a 9-0 record.  Some Stanford people need a game with national title implications to declare football means something.  And then they need instructions on how to support their team because they have never done it before.  Well guess what?  If you do make any noise and do support the team against Oregon, you'll be just like Alabama fans.  Are you sure you really want to sink to that level? 

Go on and fool yourselves into thinking you are better than everyone else because you won't stand and yell for a meaningless game.  But the reality is we all know you do care or you wouldn't be reading this.  C'mon, it will liberating to come out of the closet and let your inner fan out.  Not only will you be free and not be so hypocritical, but you'll also have more fun!  Where else in your life do you get to yell at the top of your lungs for 3 hours and root for the same thing as thousands of others around you?


Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - oman - 11-07-2011

I really don't care if anyone likes us or not. 

1) We aren't a football factory.

2) If we win it is great.

3) if we lose it is not the end of the world.

Not sure why that attitude needs to relate to how we cheer at football games.  I personally think they are unrelated.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - oman - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 12:44 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:Go on and fool yourselves into thinking you are better than everyone else because you won't stand and yell for a meaningless game. 

I am not sure you have the right thread.  Who is making this argument?

Dear Outsider.... - CowboyIndian - 11-07-2011

I assume much of your self-righteous and pedantic ranting is aimed at my comments. First, let me say I misread and responded to your original post. I read it as being directed toward those who don't care to fawn over the ESPN-appointed deities deigning to descend upon Stanford this week.  That was my mistake and I apologize.

Meanwhile, you are a self-described Outsider Fan. You don't know anything about how any individual here acts at a game...or our levels of passion... and we certainly don't need to be reminded of the lack of same from some of our brethren; it's been a topic of discussion here more than once. When I require your advice on being a better fan, I believe I can muster the courage to ask for it. In the meantime.....

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - george - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 12:44 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:Some Stanford people need a game with national title implications to declare football means something.  And then they need instructions on how to support their team because they have never done it before. 

A lot of us here on the cardboard have vehemently supported the team in good times and bad.  I came to the cardboard in the heart of the T.eevens suckitude looking for solace with a group of people who were hurting as bad as I was.  But to say that's the attitude of most Stanford students and alums would be a mistake.  I would agree that some, if not a lot of Stanford people need a game with national title implications to declare football means something. 

Sure, the football fan in me wishes that we had the volume of rabid fans seen at Alabama or even Oregon.  But I don't think that will ever be the case.  Instead I actually take comfort in the fact that a large number of the Stanford community seems to be relatively clueless as to the goings-on of the football team.  I will be enormously bummed out if Stanford loses to Oregon.  I would venture to guess that a lot of the people on the board will be too.  But for the first time in a long time, Stanford football is legitimately in the middle of national dialogue, and as such a larger percentage of the community has taken notice.  I have no problem with the fact that this means they might need some help in how to support the team.  If other schools want to make fun of us for needing a facebook page to rally the troops, then I'm ok with that. 

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - yvonne - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 12:44 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:California fans suck because they tolerate and rationalize losing too much. 

There, fixed it for you.

Quote:However, at least they are strong enough to admit losing hurts, don't need instructions on how to support their team, and will show it long before a 9-0 record.

That was an impressive 35,000 at AT&T this weekend. Cal fans support their team, except when they don't.

Re: The Spotlight is on us, baby!! - yvonne - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 01:57 PM)george link Wrote:[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=4845.msg34699#msg34699 date=1320695043]
Some Stanford people need a game with national title implications to declare football means something.  And then they need instructions on how to support their team because they have never done it before. 

A lot of us here on the cardboard have vehemently supported the team in good times and bad.  I came to the cardboard in the heart of the T.eevens suckitude looking for solace with a group of people who were hurting as bad as I was.  But to say that's the attitude of most Stanford students and alums would be a mistake.  I would agree that some, if not a lot of Stanford people need a game with national title implications to declare football means something. 

Sure, the football fan in me wishes that we had the volume of rabid fans seen at Alabama or even Oregon.  But I don't think that will ever be the case.  Instead I actually take comfort in the fact that a large number of the Stanford community seems to be relatively clueless as to the goings-on of the football team.  I will be enormously bummed out if Stanford loses to Oregon.  I would venture to guess that a lot of the people on the board will be too.  But for the first time in a long time, Stanford football is legitimately in the middle of national dialogue, and as such a larger percentage of the community has taken notice.  I have no problem with the fact that this means they might need some help in how to support the team.  If other schools want to make fun of us for needing a facebook page to rally the troops, then I'm ok with that.
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I agree, George. Successful teams have bandwagons. Period.

Re: Dear Outsider.... - OutsiderFan - 11-07-2011

(11-07-2011, 01:47 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:I assume much of your self-righteous and pedantic ranting is aimed at my comments. First, let me say I misread and responded to your original post. I read it as being directed toward those who don't care to fawn over the ESPN-appointed deities deigning to descend upon Stanford this week.  That was my mistake and I apologize.

Meanwhile, you are a self-described Outsider Fan. You don't know anything about how any individual here acts at a game...or our levels of passion... and we certainly don't need to be reminded of the lack of same from some of our brethren; it's been a topic of discussion here more than once. When I require your advice on being a better fan, I believe I can muster the courage to ask for it. In the meantime.....

I'm pointing out how it rubs a lot of people the wrong way when people put down people in SEC country for being so fanatical about college football (and sports in general), and then those same people turn around and act the same way when their team reaches a certain level of performance.  As for the Facebook page, just show up at a game and act like you are in Rome.

Yvonne, Cal fans do suck.  You can come up with myriad reasons.  But neither fan base has great fans.  All things considered, Stanford's are better IMO because they don't apologize for or tolerate mediocrity.  And now that Harbaugh and Shaw have shown what is possible in an era of big media dollars for sports, Stanford's standard of football performance has been raised higher than ever and seems likely to stay high.  That more than anything is what it takes to build a stronger, more passionate fan base.