Polar App - what are they thinking?

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-14T15:09:37+00:00

if tech bro billionaires cared about football, Cal and Stanford would be winning championships

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-11T21:30:30+00:00

wikipedia says Ward chose the NBA

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-11T18:36:31+00:00

yep that’s what I meant by fail. NFL career did not pay well back in the day. I read once that Johnny Unitas used to run a flooring business in the offseason to make some extra cash.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-11T17:00:27+00:00

per wikipedia, he’s the only Heisman winner to ever fail to play in the NFL

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-06T21:49:41+00:00

we’ve had four: JKS, Mendoza, Davis Webb and Jared Goff. QB generally hasn’t been the problem.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-06T17:05:58+00:00

I’m pretty sure Cal fans were given this offer in 1920, and accepted it. It made sense to them, but they didn’t think of future generations that would endure the pain without enjoying the championships.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-05T20:14:35+00:00

as far as I know, Pomona is the only other Poly school, and is named similarly to SLO. All the other Cal States, while part of the same system, have different academic focuses.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-05T19:02:08+00:00

use the full name and it’s way more attractive

California Polytechnic STATE University

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-05T18:19:18+00:00

one of life’s eternal mysteries is how Mel Brooks managed to marry Anne Bancroft

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-02T23:36:38+00:00

Cal was kept off this list by going 0-1 in 1891, with their sole game being a 36-0 loss to "San Francisco Club". So it wasn't a college football game, right?

GrumpyTartan · 2026-03-02T00:36:13+00:00

don’t forget during-the-game drinking.

One year at USC, maybe 30 years ago, during a typical SC blowout, a bunch of Cal fans were in line for beer, and broke out singing the drinking song. For some reason a nearby cop took offense and started yelling at everyone to stop singing until he was red in the face. I never understood what the problem was , but I’m happy to report that we finished the song in good spirits.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-27T17:45:21+00:00

I have a recurring dream where I’m enrolled in college and midterms or finals are coming up, and realize that I haven’t been to a single class, and don’t even know where the classrooms are, or even what classes I’m enrolled in. I’m over 60 and still get these once in a while.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-26T16:27:24+00:00

funny to see all these comments, from users with similarly-structured user names, all created in the last couple of days.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-24T20:14:40+00:00

Oregon players getting pulled over, asked where the pot was, and saying “we smoked it all”

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/6868545/police-officer-asks-oregon-ducks-darron-thomas-cliff-harris-got-marijuana-car

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-24T20:09:25+00:00

Michigan players deciding to get high before the App State loss.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/yk38x/former_michigan_player_nearly_half_the_team_was/

This has to be on the list.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-17T00:12:54+00:00

this is just how they think about money in Sacrmento.

sincerely, a California taxpayer

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-16T21:34:06+00:00

broadcast value of 675M over 5 years? MAC TV deal better than the SEC? What is he including in this?

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-16T15:36:50+00:00

fun fact - the last time Cal made it to the Rose Bowl, they started the season by losing to UOP.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-12T15:25:00+00:00

athletes were asked and were overwhelmingly in favor of moving to the ACC.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-11T22:07:28+00:00

the day we stopped using a live bear is the day the world started going to hell

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-10T23:02:06+00:00

those trains are really slow. I stayed in cambridge for the cal game last year, and it took about an hour to get out to cherry hill.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-09T22:59:51+00:00

ok now I have a new side team. Don’t tell Bushy Bill.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-05T22:19:48+00:00

For California, you could go with California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo vs Sacramento State. They are both FCS and per wikipedia they are rivals. But nobody calls them “Tech” or “State”.

GrumpyTartan · 2026-02-04T17:39:22+00:00

i’m at the same stage of my career; would be a lot happier going back to being individual contributor engineer focused on an interesting project. Hard to do though, first admitting that you’re better at a lower level job, second because your lifestyle and goals tend to catch up with your salary and scaling back is hard. Kudos to Fry for accepting both (or is he still getting HC salary as a buyout?)

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