10-09-2024, 07:23 PM
My "hot take" has nothing to do with individual games or seasons and goes back at least to the 2010 season when a Top 6 (I looked it up) Stanford led by Andrew Luck (21/30, 305 yards, 4 TD) played in front of nobody against Oregon State. Shutout. Total crush job. Too boring I guess - we need events in the Bay Area to get excited. The next two games were beat downs of Cal in Berkeley and VPI in Miami Gardens. My son (no game that day) and I roamed the empty stadium trying out different locations and talked to an OSU family because their linebacker son's brother is a close friend of my daughter. They were aghast at the lack of a crowd. A 4:30 start and a beautiful night. No excuses. No people. We knew then there was no way Harbaugh would stick around to lead a top ten program into an empty stadium at home.
Remember the epic 2013 Big Game? Rose Bowl on the line. Threw down 63 points. My wife said we leave early or divorce. (Well, outcome is in hand and divorce is expensive, so I left when directed.) I got walk up tickets for me, my wife, and six Midshipmen in town for the Friday night Navy game in San Jose. Granted, Cal sucked that year so a lot of their fans stayed out tailgating and never made it inside. Wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck.
This just isn't a good look, no matter how many people are supposedly packed in a concourse. (It can't be 10,000.)
Enter Sandman, alright.
Remember the epic 2013 Big Game? Rose Bowl on the line. Threw down 63 points. My wife said we leave early or divorce. (Well, outcome is in hand and divorce is expensive, so I left when directed.) I got walk up tickets for me, my wife, and six Midshipmen in town for the Friday night Navy game in San Jose. Granted, Cal sucked that year so a lot of their fans stayed out tailgating and never made it inside. Wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck.
This just isn't a good look, no matter how many people are supposedly packed in a concourse. (It can't be 10,000.)
Enter Sandman, alright.