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Cal gallows humor - sunnyside sudser - 11-14-2022

The cal folks are as disgusted with their program as we are.  Will this be the smallest Big Game crowd in history?

I did love this exchange (borrowed loosely from bearinsider.  

Jesus after 40 years even I’m starting to get tired of talking about the play

Response:  would you rather talk about our last rose bowl win?

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RE: Cal gallows humor - Giants - 11-14-2022

(11-14-2022, 12:10 PM)sunnyside sudser Wrote:  The cal folks are as disgusted with their program as we are.  Will this be the smallest Big Game crowd in history?

I did love this exchange (borrowed loosely from bearinsider.  

Jesus after 40 years even I’m starting to get tired of talking about the play

Response:  would you rather talk about our last rose bowl win?

I would guess the crowd at the 1892 game was smaller than what we will see on Saturday.  However, I suspect the 2022 attendance will be the lowest (excl. 2020) in the last hundred years.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - OutsiderFan - 11-14-2022

And to think my lifelong dream was to see Stanford and Cal play the "Big Game" for the right to go to a Rose Bowl, and then to just play in the Pac-12 CG.  

The 1991 Big Game might be the only year I have been alive that the two teams played while both were ranked in the Top 25 and the game actually meant something significant for the post season aspirations of both teams. 

It's never felt further away.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - Phogge - 11-14-2022

Some of the most entertaining BG's have been when both are crappy.

However this year Stanford may have the most boring offense in college football so don't get your hopes up.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - martyup - 11-14-2022

Both of these teams are so bad that neither deserves to win the axe.

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(11-14-2022, 12:22 PM)Giants Wrote:  I would guess the crowd at the 1892 game was smaller than what we will see on Saturday.  However, I suspect the 2022 attendance will be the lowest (excl. 2020) in the last hundred years.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - Mick - 11-14-2022

(11-14-2022, 12:22 PM)Giants Wrote:  I would guess the crowd at the 1892 game was smaller than what we will see on Saturday.  However, I suspect the 2022 attendance will be the lowest (excl. 2020) in the last hundred years.

Saw that 1921's crowd at the newly opened Stanford Stadium was 57,000. First crowd at Cal in 1924 was listed at 98,000 -- both teams had a Rose Bowl berth on the line. 

20,000 people showed up for the 1892 Big Game, though they only sold 10,000 tickets.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - martyup - 11-14-2022

20 people showed up at the 2022 Big Game, even though they sold 20,000 tickets.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - Giants - 11-14-2022

(11-14-2022, 03:08 PM)Mick Wrote:  

(11-14-2022, 12:22 PM)Giants Wrote:  I would guess the crowd at the 1892 game was smaller than what we will see on Saturday.  However, I suspect the 2022 attendance will be the lowest (excl. 2020) in the last hundred years.

Saw that 1921's crowd at the newly opened Stanford Stadium was 57,000. First crowd at Cal in 1924 was listed at 98,000 -- both teams had a Rose Bowl berth on the line. 

20,000 people showed up for the 1892 Big Game, though they only sold 10,000 tickets.

The largest in-stadium crowd for a game at Memorial Stadium is 83,000 v. Navy in 1947. The 1924 attendance figure you cited included patrons who watched from Tightwad Hill (77K in the stadium, roughly 20K on Tightwad)…

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RE: Cal gallows humor - PVTree - 11-14-2022

A friend of mine's son, who is a current weenie across the Bay, was interested in going to Big Game. He was told that student tickets cost $50 each. That seems so out of touch, if true.

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RE: Cal gallows humor - Mick - 11-14-2022

(11-14-2022, 04:04 PM)PVTree Wrote:  A friend of mine's son, who is a current weenie across the Bay, was interested in going to Big Game. He was told that student tickets cost $50 each. That seems so out of touch, if true.

I think that was the cost to attend our formal.  Er, back in 1983...

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RE: Cal gallows humor - jacket3ree - 11-14-2022

I won't be there with Calfan wife. (She hasn't been since her father - the ultimate Old Blue - passed away. In fact, I've attended more games at Memorial over the last 11 years than she has.)  But it might get spicy.  I'll have to watch myself, or I'll be watching from the dinky kitchen TV. Or offsite.

We watched the E60 special titled "The Band is Out on the Field" together. We both thought it was really good. Forty years have mellowed the rancor and there are appropriate winks and nods from everybody, especially Dwight Gardner, who is probably the only person alive who really knows if his knee was down.  I think he knows his knee was down. No way would it have survived replay review today (the last lateral is clearly forward - from pitch to catch, it advances down the field, not backward), so it is for the best it all happened 40 years ago. Emile Harry said a whistle was clearly blown. One of the officials called him a liar in effect. "There was no whistle." There were so many players on the field, no one knew who was legit and who wasn't.  A sax player said they knew they were in trouble. In retrospect, the one thing that could have been done differently was tackle Moen. 'I mean we had 200 band members on the field - we could have taken him.'

Our own Gary T has way more than a cameo. TV superstar.  Rodney Gilmore wins for the guy who has stayed in shape the most.  He has it right.  That was all sorts of wrong (forward pass!, but it is a great lesson in not giving up.  Kevin Moen admitted that he does not understand vectors. 'If I tossed it over me head, how can it be forward?'  When I explained vectors to Calfan wife on the fly, that was Strike #2.  Strike #1 was when Jeremy Schaap made the age-old geographical mistake. 'The Berkeley campus is 60 miles to the northeast of Palo Alto.'  No dummy, it is northwest, or really, north-northwest; and only 43 miles by car.  I was belligerent enough to be told to write him. I will.

Paul Wiggan wishes the timeout was called with 4 seconds and bets Elway does too.  Elway declined to be interviewed, which they pointedly used as the close. Lots of good footage and interviews.  The best revenge was the fake Cal Daily.  Both Moen and Ron Rivera said they had to hand it to the Stanford Daily. Rivera: "Yeah, they got me." The Daily editor was also interviewed along with a host of players and musicians on both sides. The Tightwad Hill cannon guy got his 15.

Not much said about how the programs have fared since, which was my close and departure to the kitchen TV.  "You weren't even there Mr. Sour Grapes!"  "Facts, baby!"

Stanford 25-13-1 in Big Games since
Stanford 4-0 in Conference Championships
Stanford 4-0 in Rose Bowl Appearances
Stanford 2-0 in Rose Bowl Wins
Stanford 6-0 in NY6/BCS Bowls
Stanford 3-, oh never mind, in H-man runners up  

But hey, 40 years later you have the play! .....and little else.

Yep, spicy Saturday.

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