08-31-2016, 04:30 PM
I'm not sure who first directed me to the clip. But I remember the game, because it was played on the day that I was returning to campus to start life in Roble Hall in fall 1982. I had a connecting flight through the old Stapleton Airport in Denver and got to see the end of the first half before boarding my plane for SFO. Stanford was losing to tOSU 13-0, and Elway was having a really rough game. I spent the next three hours in a dark funk, as I was convinced that Stanford was getting routed by the Buckeyes. A dormmate picked me up at SFO, and the first words out of his mouth were "What a game!" It was only then that I had learned that Stanford had staged that amazing comeback.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)