I got decent seats in section 220 through SeatGeek, and found when I got there that the section was comprised mostly of students. Or student-age fans...their enrollment status was unknown. Which was fine....except for the moron directly behind me.

He would shout "B-word!" after every play. If he was particularly moved to heights of eloquence it would be "F-WORD ALL YA B-WORDS!" Unsure whether this was directed at Cal, Stanford, the officials...didn't seem to matter. It usually bugs me when students bail in the 2nd half but this guy gets a pass, and can leave early at every game.

The bathroom in our section had one narrow door instead of separate entrance/exit. So those leaving had to squeeze past the line of those waiting to get in....and the entrance was in the connecting passage between the concourse and the seats instead of on the concourse itself. So those not going to the bathroom had to squeeze between the lines of men on one side and women on the other. Tsk. Poor design, Stanford.

Being in the same corner and above the cheerleaders and Band, we couldn't hear a thing coming from them.

And after enduring that 'THIIRRRD DOWN AND SEVEEEEENNN!!!!' tool, no one should ever complain about our stadium announcer.

JSC 76 said:

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I got decent seats in section 220 through SeatGeek, and found when I got there that the section was comprised mostly of students. Or student-age fans...their enrollment status was unknown. Which was fine....except for the moron directly behind me.

He would shout "B-word!" after every play. If he was particularly moved to heights of eloquence it would be "F-WORD ALL YA B-WORDS!" Unsure whether this was directed at Cal, Stanford, the officials...didn't seem to matter. It usually bugs me when students bail in the 2nd half but this guy gets a pass, and can leave early at every game.

The bathroom in our section had one narrow door instead of separate entrance/exit. So those leaving had to squeeze past the line of those waiting to get in....and the entrance was in the connecting passage between the concourse and the seats instead of on the concourse itself. So those not going to the bathroom had to squeeze between the lines of men on one side and women on the other. Tsk. Poor design, Stanford.

Being in the same corner and above the cheerleaders and Band, we couldn't hear a thing coming from them.

And after enduring that 'THIIRRRD DOWN AND SEVEEEEENNN!!!!' tool, no one should ever complain about our stadium announcer.

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Poor bathroom design is inexcusable but likely owes to their desire to build that stadium on the cheap. I'm amazed - even with all those very good years with Shaw - how disengaged their students are with their sports programs.

I would never sit near students. Not in to standing for three hours.

We were in the next to last row in section 232, and, as my wife pointed out, the acoustics were great there - we could actually hear and understand what the stadium announcer was saying (whether we liked it or not). This was a vastly different case than Memorial Stadium (where we sit in the last row of section TT).

chalcidbear said:

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We were in the next to last row in section 232, and, as my wife pointed out, the acoustics were great there - we could actually hear and understand what the stadium announcer was saying (whether we liked it or not). This was a vastly different case than Memorial Stadium (where we sit in the last row of section TT).

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132 was great.

I enjoyed the same basic Memorial Stadium Learfield experience at an away stadium.

Nothing like the PA guy being the absolutely only unique thing about the stadium.

SoFlaBear said:

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JSC 76 said:

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I got decent seats in section 220 through SeatGeek, and found when I got there that the section was comprised mostly of students. Or student-age fans...their enrollment status was unknown. Which was fine....except for the moron directly behind me.

He would shout "B-word!" after every play. If he was particularly moved to heights of eloquence it would be "F-WORD ALL YA B-WORDS!" Unsure whether this was directed at Cal, Stanford, the officials...didn't seem to matter. It usually bugs me when students bail in the 2nd half but this guy gets a pass, and can leave early at every game.

The bathroom in our section had one narrow door instead of separate entrance/exit. So those leaving had to squeeze past the line of those waiting to get in....and the entrance was in the connecting passage between the concourse and the seats instead of on the concourse itself. So those not going to the bathroom had to squeeze between the lines of men on one side and women on the other. Tsk. Poor design, Stanford.

Being in the same corner and above the cheerleaders and Band, we couldn't hear a thing coming from them.

And after enduring that 'THIIRRRD DOWN AND SEVEEEEENNN!!!!' tool, no one should ever complain about our stadium announcer.

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Poor bathroom design is inexcusable but likely owes to their desire to build that stadium on the cheap. I'm amazed - even with all those very good years with Shaw - how disengaged their students are with their sports programs.

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Furd administration has come down very hard on their greek system, shutting down their most active fraternities and also clamping down on dorm life. They weren't that rowdy to start with, but they have been terminally tamed since. Those kinds of campus policies will have an impact on student participation in their sports programs.

Furds don't need bathrooms because they are terminally constipated.

It's been years since I have been to the Farm to see a Big Game (I don't live in CA anymore), but one of the last times I was at their old stadium I saw a Cal fan whip out his Johnson and proceeded to pee on the Standfurd students in front of him. If he wasn't as big as he was being a hammer thrower on the Cal track team I am not sure he would have gotten away with it. So I guess my threshold of what opposing fans are capable of is maybe a little different than some guy being verbally obnoxious and the fan who set that bar for me wasn't a Furd, but a Cal fan. Of course, there have been other examples outside of the Cal/Furd rivalry for me that have been equally or worse than a pissed hammer thrower (i.e., stand up Fresno State and I was subject to some stupid southerner **** in Knoxville), but fans all have their good and bad moments.