[jacketree]

That does it.  I've been on the sidelines (er couch) for nine years now; having given up season tickets I had since 1985, after my son's HS JV year, because I was missing so many games and I couldn't give the tickets away.  [Also, because I am oddly superstitious and Stanford suddenly became good (and stayed that way) since I stopped holding season tickets (2009). Don't want to mess with karma.  Now I've seen many games in person over the years here and there, but I have not been a regular.]

I'm going to get back in the game; buy some affordable seats in the corners or wherever and ignore the vast swath of empties, because there really isn't a robust market for Stanford football. There just isn't.  They've won like no one's business over these last 8-9 years, but that doesn't matter.  They've featured a string of H-Man worthy All-Americans over the years; and electric once-in-a-generation players, like 3 or 4 not just in a generation, but over a single recruiting cycle; and three Rose Bowls in what, five years, and that doesn't matter?  C'mon!  This place should be packed every game, all game.  But it isn't.  And at some point I can't care anymore.  I like college football.  I like Stanford.  Gonna catch some games and give the young Marine in-stadium text updates to whichever God-forsaken place on this geodesic ball of rock he gets stationed.  Hopefully Oceanside, CA  :)

There; off my chest.

P.S.  Ooof.  Well maybe a three-game mini plan.  Just checked the schedule. We will be out of country the end of September through October. (Yay! Although, we aren't going to Australia this time.)  The only three home games I can attend are the last three; which is definitely a primo slate of games. Those actually might fill the place.

P.P.S.  I usually don't visit this site using a PC.  What is the deal with karma and why is Teejers hovering way below freezing?  It would take more than a 24-hour day of me punching the little + button to get him back to ground zero.  Is there some dire thing that happens here, or are some of us just saddled with negative approval ratings?  I know he isn't sunshine, rainbows and lollipops all the time, but aren't we supposed to toss around all sorts of viewpoints?  I mean as The Dude says, that's just like your opinion man.  Anyway, Teejers, you are now one point higher than you would have been otherwise. Or as you lawyers like to say "but for...."  (Yes, I'm completely punch drunk after a day spent prepping for deposition.  Lawyer:  "Why doesn't your model show what the photos I just sent you show?"  Me in my inner monologue: "Because modeling is hard man.  Do you know how hard it is to match anything with a numeric model based on the limited data available to us.  You gave me a budget. How much do you want to blow it by? Maybe your stupid pictures are all photo-shopped!!!"  Me in my actual outer voice: "Great pictures. These really help. We're on it."  Got the match an hour ago.  Will only sweat through the t-shirt during the depo now.

[jacketree]

That does it.  I've been on the sidelines (er couch) for nine years now; having given up season tickets I had since 1985, after my son's HS JV year, because I was missing so many games and I couldn't give the tickets away.  [Also, because I am oddly superstitious and Stanford suddenly became good (and stayed that way) since I stopped holding season tickets (2009). Don't want to mess with karma.  Now I've seen many games in person over the years here and there, but I have not been a regular.]

I'm going to get back in the game; buy some affordable seats in the corners or wherever and ignore the vast swath of empties, because there really isn't a robust market for Stanford football. There just isn't.  They've won like no one's business over these last 8-9 years, but that doesn't matter.  They've featured a string of H-Man worthy All-Americans over the years; and electric once-in-a-generation players, like 3 or 4 not just in a generation, but over a single recruiting cycle; and three Rose Bowls in what, five years, and that doesn't matter?  C'mon!  This place should be packed every game, all game.  But it isn't.  And at some point I can't care anymore.  I like college football.  I like Stanford.  Gonna catch some games and give the young Marine in-stadium text updates to whichever God-forsaken place on this geodesic ball of rock he gets stationed.  Hopefully Oceanside, CA  :)

There; off my chest.

P.S.  Ooof.  Well maybe a three-game mini plan.  Just checked the schedule. We will be out of country the end of September through October. (Yay! Although, we aren't going to Australia this time.)  The only three home games I can attend are the last three; which is definitely a primo slate of games. Those actually might fill the place.

P.P.S.  I usually don't visit this site using a PC.  What is the deal with karma and why is Teejers hovering way below freezing?  It would take more than a 24-hour day of me punching the little + button to get him back to ground zero.  Is there some dire thing that happens here, or are some of us just saddled with negative approval ratings?  I know he isn't sunshine, rainbows and lollipops all the time, but aren't we supposed to toss around all sorts of viewpoints?  I mean as The Dude says, that's just like your opinion man.  Anyway, Teejers, you are now one point higher than you would have been otherwise. Or as you lawyers like to say "but for...."  (Yes, I'm completely punch drunk after a day spent prepping for deposition.  Lawyer:  "Why doesn't your model show what the photos I just sent you show?"  Me in my inner monologue: "Because modeling is hard man.  Do you know how hard it is to match anything with a numeric model based on the limited data available to us.  You gave me a budget. How much do you want to blow it by? Maybe your stupid pictures are all photo-shopped!!!"  Me in my actual outer voice: "Great pictures. These really help. We're on it."  Got the match an hour ago.  Will only sweat through the t-shirt during the depo now.