09-20-2021, 03:30 PM
(09-20-2021, 02:40 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Since when are Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi in the Southwest?
BC
Since when is Evanston, Illinois in the Northwest?
Seriously, I think the conference started in Texas, which--with the exception of California--took up the southwestern corner of the US for a number of decades.
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)