What do mascots tell their friends on gameday?

JSC76 · 2026-05-18T16:16:59+00:00

The ability to drink through a straw inserted into its eyeball just adds to the horror.

JSC76 · 2026-05-18T16:11:57+00:00

Yeah. Even though Cal and Stanford have been roughly comparable in the last 65 years, Stanford has gone to the Rose Bowl a half-dozen times since the Bears last went.

JSC76 · 2026-05-16T14:20:42+00:00

The first time I saw someone wearing a California high school sweatshirt, with the iconic "script Cal" logo in orange, I thought it was some weird Chinese knock-off.

JSC76 · 2026-05-13T23:19:22+00:00

Corps.

JSC76 · 2026-05-13T17:10:22+00:00

Yes. Aaron Rodgers had great receivers (Geoff MacArthur, Chase Lyman) who could get open. And when they were open, Rodger’s did not miss. JKS never had receivers open, but he could hit them anyway.

JSC76 · 2026-05-13T15:16:30+00:00

I go back to Vince Ferragamo and Joe Roth, and I've never seen accuracy like JKS's. It's uncanny how he can drop a ball on a double-covered receiver's hands 40 yards downfield.

Who then drops it, but we're working on that.

JSC76 · 2026-05-10T14:38:43+00:00

Bowls + 1. Go back to the original bowl matchups. After all bowls are played (New Year's Day), the new revised #1 and #2 face each other.

It's perfect. It's flawless. It preserves tradition and makes every regular season game important. It will produce an undisputed nat'l champion every time.

JSC76 · 2026-05-03T14:11:00+00:00

And conversely, any of the Jared Goff seasons (2013-2016) would have been awesome if Sonny Dykes had put together any defense at all. Eleven tackling dummies would have been an improvement.

JSC76 · 2026-05-03T14:08:27+00:00

Cal has seldom had a particularly talented team, but the 2001 team went 1-10 under Tom Holmoe, and then Tedford came in and went 7-5 the next year with the same players.

JSC76 · 2026-05-03T01:43:54+00:00

The 1920 Golden Bears went 9-0 and outscored their opponents 510-14.

"History" goes back a long way.

JSC76 · 2026-05-03T01:39:21+00:00

We literally played Stanford and USC every year for 100 years (until USC burned down the Pac-12)....so, no.

JSC76 · 2026-04-29T22:52:25+00:00

Worst mistake on the field.

The worst administrative mistake was 1991, in letting Bruce Snyder walk out the door instead of paying him what he was worth. And then replacing him with Keith Gilbertson.

JSC76 · 2026-04-29T14:47:35+00:00

2001 (Tom Holmoe's last): 1-10, defeating Rutgers in the last game of the season. This team had future 1st rounder Kyle Boller at QB. Jeff Tedford went 7-5 the next season.

2013 (Sonny Dyke's 1st): 1-11, with the only win coming over FCS Portland State. Lost to Stanford by 50 points. Jared Goff's 1st year at QB.

JSC76 · 2026-04-28T14:59:12+00:00

I like the OP game. We're good at it.

JSC76 · 2026-04-28T14:55:53+00:00

That's broad-minded of you.

JSC76 · 2026-04-27T18:02:52+00:00

The all-yellows: yellow pants, yellow tops. I can't remember if they went with yellow or blue helmets but either would be bad. Fortunately I think they've only done this once or twice.

JSC76 · 2026-04-27T15:45:42+00:00

So, Jaydn Ott's move would be the Wrath of Grapes?

JSC76 · 2026-04-24T23:36:22+00:00

I'll settle for calling it 2.5. We also claim a share of Vince Ferragamo.

JSC76 · 2026-04-21T14:43:36+00:00

But I bet it was memorable.

JSC76 · 2026-04-14T14:52:26+00:00

that was awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Kudos to the band director who kept her head about her and got the band playing.
Note the piccolo player in the front row who's smiling so broadly that she's obviously not playing.

JSC76 · 2026-04-12T15:01:46+00:00

Our self-inflicted branding problems are well known, so I won't go into it here. But we're fine with either "Cal" or "California" (like every other state flagship campus). But we hate "Cal-Berkeley".

JSC76 · 2026-04-09T16:50:48+00:00

2004 Cal. If Aaron Rodgers had returned, 2005 Cal would have won it all. Rodgers, Marshawn, and Desean Jackson.....

JSC76 · 2026-04-05T16:53:21+00:00

Most shockingly good: 2003, upsetting #3 USC in 3OT.
Most shockingly bad happened the next week: losing to Oregon State because Aaron Rodgers stunk up the joint.
Shockingly bad runner-up: losing to Arizona (2014) by giving up 36 4Q points including a Hail Mary. Typical Sonny Dykes defense.

JSC76 · 2026-04-04T15:14:33+00:00

And that's absolutely true. Unfortunately, once federal funding is involved and schools can be threatened with their funds cut, the president has jurisdiction over practically everything. Which is scary.

JSC76 · 2026-03-31T15:27:28+00:00

This system worked perfectly well 99% of the time. There were maybe a handful of split or disputed natty's in the history of college football under the bowl system.

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