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May I ask why you do it?

You didn't ask me, but my reason is simple. Tradition and nostalgia. Students used to sit on the sunny side. Subsequently I bought season tickets on the sunny side because that was the Stanford side of the field and only "old people" sat on the shady side. Had great seats in the Old Lady, and for some reason it was never nearly as hot as the new stadium, even with the "normal" 1300 kickoffs. New seats are higher up and perhaps "better". There are several similarly "mature" groups in our section, although we have had some significant attrition in the last few years.

I respect sitting on the sunny side for the sake of tradition and nostalgia. But the new stadium seems a bit hotter without the earth and bleachers to absorb some of the heat. 

I also sat on the sunny side in the early and mid 90s when I went to games with friends that were students and young alums. I guess it just doesn’t hold the same cachet for me, which is normal because I was not a student. 

My school’s team was busy rocking the SCIAC, not the PAC. By the way, we beat the Whittier Poets not once but twice a few years ago and won the conference. We broke them and they no longer have a football program now. (Another theory is that it became too expensive and required too many student-athletes to field a team…)

[CardinalSagehen]

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May I ask why you do it?

You didn't ask me, but my reason is simple. Tradition and nostalgia. Students used to sit on the sunny side. Subsequently I bought season tickets on the sunny side because that was the Stanford side of the field and only "old people" sat on the shady side. Had great seats in the Old Lady, and for some reason it was never nearly as hot as the new stadium, even with the "normal" 1300 kickoffs. New seats are higher up and perhaps "better". There are several similarly "mature" groups in our section, although we have had some significant attrition in the last few years.

I respect sitting on the sunny side for the sake of tradition and nostalgia. But the new stadium seems a bit hotter without the earth and bleachers to absorb some of the heat. 

I also sat on the sunny side in the early and mid 90s when I went to games with friends that were students and young alums. I guess it just doesn’t hold the same cachet for me, which is normal because I was not a student. 

My school’s team was busy rocking the SCIAC, not the PAC. By the way, we beat the Whittier Poets not once but twice a few years ago and won the conference. We broke them and they no longer have a football program now. (Another theory is that it became too expensive and required too many student-athletes to field a team…)