[Bruce Wang]

He must be confusing a basketball game with something that happened at a Grateful Dead concert.

[Bruce Wang]

He must be confusing a basketball game with something that happened at a Grateful Dead concert.

[FarmBoy]

I thought that odd as well. I wondered if he was trying to allude to hockey games where they throw dead sea creatures (octopus?) onto the court sometimes.

[FarmBoy]

I thought that odd as well. I wondered if he was trying to allude to hockey games where they throw dead sea creatures (octopus?) onto the court sometimes.

[slide]

octopus tossing is a Detroit Red Wings tradition.  when it first started, the 8 arms = 8 playoff wins then needed to win a Stanley Cup

[slide]

octopus tossing is a Detroit Red Wings tradition.  when it first started, the 8 arms = 8 playoff wins then needed to win a Stanley Cup

[Treebound]

This question is likely in Yvonne's court, but isn't the plural of octopus - octopi?    Similar to "The Lopi?!!"

As for Walton and the fish, he's a colorful color man that clearly has lost a few brain cells.  Good for a laugh.

[Treebound]

This question is likely in Yvonne's court, but isn't the plural of octopus - octopi?    Similar to "The Lopi?!!"

As for Walton and the fish, he's a colorful color man that clearly has lost a few brain cells.  Good for a laugh.

[stupac2]

This question is likely in Yvonne's court, but isn't the plural of octopus - octopi?    Similar to "The Lopi?!!"

No, it's Greek, not Latin, so the pedantic plural is octopodes.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Ety...ralization

[stupac2]

This question is likely in Yvonne's court, but isn't the plural of octopus - octopi?    Similar to "The Lopi?!!"

No, it's Greek, not Latin, so the pedantic plural is octopodes.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Ety...ralization

[Kathy]

The preferred plural form is octopuses; other variations are octopi and octopodes.
The word originated with the Greeks as oktōpod; New Latin form of octopod evolved to the English octopus in 1759.

[Kathy]

The preferred plural form is octopuses; other variations are octopi and octopodes.
The word originated with the Greeks as oktōpod; New Latin form of octopod evolved to the English octopus in 1759.

[82lsju]

I spent a year at Georgia Tech before transferring to Stanford.  During that year Tech played ND in Atlanta.  Quite a few students (who sat right behind the visiting team bench) threw small dead fish at the ND players, after a few minutes none of the ND players took their helmets off when they were on the sideline  :)

[82lsju]

I spent a year at Georgia Tech before transferring to Stanford.  During that year Tech played ND in Atlanta.  Quite a few students (who sat right behind the visiting team bench) threw small dead fish at the ND players, after a few minutes none of the ND players took their helmets off when they were on the sideline  :)

[CowboyIndian]

I think noted British author Ian Fleming preferred 'octopussi'.

[CowboyIndian]

I think noted British author Ian Fleming preferred 'octopussi'.

[estephan500]

I remember Cal fans throwing oranges onto the football field. Happened regularly enough that Stanford put its lacrosse team onto the field to keep the mess to the sides.

[estephan500]

I remember Cal fans throwing oranges onto the football field. Happened regularly enough that Stanford put its lacrosse team onto the field to keep the mess to the sides.

[yvonne]

People tell me the rivalry was friendly, and I see vestiges of it, but sometime, possibly during the wining streak, or possibly when Stanford became an elite university, it started getting really ugly on the other side. It became a matter of not just beating Stanford, but hating us. An older Cal fan friend of mine told me that there was a time that people always dressed up for Big Game, but that same fan attended a rally in the mid 1990s, and never attended again because he said that traditions had been replaced by screeds about how much people hated Stanford. You can see it on the 59er Insider where people have criticized Stanford because they could walk on campus with a Cal shirt on and not get assaulted, or that we sell House Divided merchandise with both Cal and Stanford logos in the bookstore. For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

[yvonne]

People tell me the rivalry was friendly, and I see vestiges of it, but sometime, possibly during the wining streak, or possibly when Stanford became an elite university, it started getting really ugly on the other side. It became a matter of not just beating Stanford, but hating us. An older Cal fan friend of mine told me that there was a time that people always dressed up for Big Game, but that same fan attended a rally in the mid 1990s, and never attended again because he said that traditions had been replaced by screeds about how much people hated Stanford. You can see it on the 59er Insider where people have criticized Stanford because they could walk on campus with a Cal shirt on and not get assaulted, or that we sell House Divided merchandise with both Cal and Stanford logos in the bookstore. For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

[81alum]

People tell me the rivalry was friendly, and I see vestiges of it, but sometime, possibly during the wining streak, or possibly when Stanford became an elite university, it started getting really ugly on the other side. It became a matter of not just beating Stanford, but hating us. An older Low APR U fan friend of mine told me that there was a time that people always dressed up for Big Game, but that same fan attended a rally in the mid 1990s, and never attended again because he said that traditions had been replaced by screeds about how much people hated Stanford. You can see it on the 59er Insider where people have criticized Stanford because they could walk on campus with a Low APR U shirt on and not get assaulted, or that we sell House Divided merchandise with both Low APR U and Stanford logos in the bookstore. For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

Given my Mom is a 1945 Cal grad and I am a 1981 Stanford grad, I always had to take the rivalry with a grain of salt.  We attended a couple of games together where we sat in "mixed" seating.  But in 1945 Cal was probably the better academic university, and Cal people from that era did not feel threatened in the same way.  Once students began to routinely turn down Cal to attend Stanford, that is when the rivalry began to turn ugly, I think.

[81alum]

People tell me the rivalry was friendly, and I see vestiges of it, but sometime, possibly during the wining streak, or possibly when Stanford became an elite university, it started getting really ugly on the other side. It became a matter of not just beating Stanford, but hating us. An older Low APR U fan friend of mine told me that there was a time that people always dressed up for Big Game, but that same fan attended a rally in the mid 1990s, and never attended again because he said that traditions had been replaced by screeds about how much people hated Stanford. You can see it on the 59er Insider where people have criticized Stanford because they could walk on campus with a Low APR U shirt on and not get assaulted, or that we sell House Divided merchandise with both Low APR U and Stanford logos in the bookstore. For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

Given my Mom is a 1945 Cal grad and I am a 1981 Stanford grad, I always had to take the rivalry with a grain of salt.  We attended a couple of games together where we sat in "mixed" seating.  But in 1945 Cal was probably the better academic university, and Cal people from that era did not feel threatened in the same way.  Once students began to routinely turn down Cal to attend Stanford, that is when the rivalry began to turn ugly, I think.

[Bruce Wang]

For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

STANFORD doesn't lose recruiting battles to Kal. So for me, they aren't even a rival anymore.

[Bruce Wang]

For me, they are rivals, not enemies.

STANFORD doesn't lose recruiting battles to Kal. So for me, they aren't even a rival anymore.

[Nan3cy]

I blame Joe Kapp for the rivalry's turn to the ugly. I've always been convinced that's when the B.ear fans went from basically friendly to ridiculously anti-.

Of course, Kapp is such an easy guy not to like, he's easy to blame. But that time frame was the first time I remember reading about a frosh player being quoted in the Comical about how he "hate(d) red." Kid hadn't even been to a class yet and he was indoctrinated.

[Nan3cy]

I blame Joe Kapp for the rivalry's turn to the ugly. I've always been convinced that's when the B.ear fans went from basically friendly to ridiculously anti-.

Of course, Kapp is such an easy guy not to like, he's easy to blame. But that time frame was the first time I remember reading about a frosh player being quoted in the Comical about how he "hate(d) red." Kid hadn't even been to a class yet and he was indoctrinated.

[82 Card]

I think Nancy has the timing right. I went to a Big Game in Berkeley in the Kapp era. The whole environment was ugly. I was surprised because it had not been that way before. Things got worse from there. In 92, I was listening to the Kal radio broadcast of the Big Game because it was the only signal I could get. The Kal fans rushed the field after losing. Some of them assaulted Stanford fans. Their own radio announcers were aghast at the ugly behavior of the Kal fans.

[82 Card]

I think Nancy has the timing right. I went to a Big Game in Berkeley in the Kapp era. The whole environment was ugly. I was surprised because it had not been that way before. Things got worse from there. In 92, I was listening to the Kal radio broadcast of the Big Game because it was the only signal I could get. The Kal fans rushed the field after losing. Some of them assaulted Stanford fans. Their own radio announcers were aghast at the ugly behavior of the Kal fans.