09-29-2025, 11:40 AM
I was at the 1984 Stanford-OU game in Norman. It was early September so I was still home in KS and able to make the 5-hour drive to Norman, after picking up a fellow Stanford compadre in Wichita. Stanford scored on the opening drive and an OU fan sitting in front of me told me that she would rip my hands off if I continued cheering so loudly for my team. Fortunately for me, I had few reasons to cheer after that as Stanford didn't score again that day.
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)