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Re: Good news and bad news - CowboyIndian - 06-24-2010

I guess the stadium would have been about 1/3 full anyway...but that 3:00 start guarantees anyone who\'s not interested in a heat stroke will be elsewhere. Seems dumbass to me.

Re: Good news and bad news - Farm93 - 06-24-2010

Quote:I guess the stadium would have been about 1/3 full anyway...but that 3:00 start guarantees anyone who\'s not interested in a heat stroke will be elsewhere. Seems dumbass to me.

I had similar thoughts.  It will be hot and our wok will be cooking those in the second deck with alarming efficiency.  I guess it is the price of having Luck and a decent team.

It says a lot about the program that Stanford vs. Sac State gets any media coverage.  Not too long ago a Stanford game like that would have only had minimal AP print coverage.  

Re: Good news and bad news - Leftcoast - 06-24-2010

Poor Candice!

I ruptured my Achilles several years ago while playing soccer - and it wasn\'t fun.   Imagine, whatever the exact, diametric opposite of fun might be and multiply by 1,000.   If felt like someone snuck up behind me with a 9 iron and whacked me in the tendon while I was running.   You know exactly what happened immediately because flexing your foot is no longer possible and there\'s nothing where the tendon used to be - it\'s now curled up like a yo-yo string somewhere else in you foot.

The surgeon gets to go find those yo-yo strings, overlap them and then sew them back together.  It\'s a little more complicated than I describe but close enough.

If there\'s good news to rupturing your tendon it\'s that the surgical process is darn good and leaves you with a fully functioning and nearly full strength foot.  Of course you have to stretch it out to get your full range of motion back but that shouldn\'t be a problem for a professional athlete.

Re: Good news and bad news - teejers1 - 06-30-2010

Thank you, CI and Farm93.  I was arguing that televising the Sac State game was a BAD decision from a Stanford football program POV.  Was essentially labeled a wimp, even though I\'ll be at the damn game (unlike many locals who will now opt for the cool comfort of sitting at home watching the game on the couch).

But more fundamentally and importantly, I don\'t understand why broadcasting a home opener attended by 18K at Stanford Stadium is good for Stanford football.  To me, it is all bad.  Dump TV, schedule the game at 6:00 p.m., and you have a shot at having decent attendance (and will undoubtedly have a bigger House to cheer for the good guys).