Cal88 said:

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There are probably some ways to re-engage the students with card stunts using social media and mobile phones.

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Lol LED displays are cheap - come to Cal where you are the DRONE!

hoop97 said:

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I'm still amazed after spending nearly $500m the stadium still has an out of sync, hard to hear PA system.

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The PA system really needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY. It's a big safety issue. What if they have an active shooting situation, an earthquake or some other emergency? If the fans can't hear the instructions for evacuating the stands, it's going to be a BIG issue. Cal wouldn't be in an enviable position for the inevitable lawsuits.

rkt88edmo said:

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Cal88 said:

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There are probably some ways to re-engage the students with card stunts using social media and mobile phones.

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Lol LED displays are cheap - come to Cal where you are the DRONE!

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Didn't they do "card stunts" a few years back using lighted drones? I know they've been done elsewhere and that might be the answer for card stunts, at least for night games.

The drone show last year vs Auburn was really cool in my opinion. If there's another higher-profile night game would be great if they repeated.

USC band would get pelted by oranges. The giant sling shot was epic. Furd would send out their lacrosse team to protect the Furd "band" or whatever that collection of scruffy mongrels is called.

i don't recall us throwing stuff at other teams/bands--USC and Furd and they deserved it.

Sounds glorious. What year was that?

72CalBear said:

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Agree with these opinions. I am thinking that for many of the students, it was their first home game - many of whom like many newcomers to a winning Cal team - don't have much of a history with procedures. Yes, add drinking that was observed prior to the game, and this is what you get. Won't happen again. I liked the way Wilcox scolded those who threw the cards.

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Can you call it "scolding" when they can't even hear you?

I'm coming up on my 15th home game. And I sit in section T mostly right next to the students. I still don't really understand what the card stunts are. I don't think it's been successfully executed once.

I remember it being in the mid to late 70's. We sat behind the band next to the student section, and it got pretty rowdy at times. The slingshots were epic. Guys on each others shoulders holding the rubber tubing, and another pulling back the slingshot to get maximum trajectory. Not to mention the plastic gallon jugs of beer that somehow got smuggled in. Add that to the marijuana, card stunt throwing, pretty good yell leaders, and it was very entertaining, especially for a teenager like me at the time. Harmon Gym was similarly entertaining, but of course no slingshot.

Good times even if the teams weren't very good.

TexasAgInTheBay said:

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I'm coming up on my 15th home game. And I sit in section T mostly right next to the students. I still don't really understand what the card stunts are. I don't think it's been successfully executed once.

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Here's a random card stunt show from the 2010 game against UCLA. Mostly pretty good but a few I couldn't decipher. I think what they were trying to do was too complicated for the limited number of "pixels". There are plenty of other card stunt shows on YouTube.

cubzwin said:

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USC band would get pelted by oranges. The giant sling shot was epic. Furd would send out their lacrosse team to protect the Furd "band" or whatever that collection of scruffy mongrels is called.

i don't recall us throwing stuff at other teams/bands--USC and Furd and they deserved it.

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I don't see how physically hurting other students is funny. I never saw this put into place, but I've read some other posts where the projectiles were frozen oranges. I have no idea how fast the frozen oranges were traveling, but if it cleared the Cal student section and the football field (including the sidelines) then it had to have been going at a good clip. If that hit someone in the nose or face, wouldn't that do some serious damage? If it hit someone in the back of the head, couldn't it cause death?*.

I don't find that funny at all, especially as the recipient was just participating in a sanctioned extracurricular school activity. Now that you're all parents and grandparents, would you want your child or grandchild to get hit by a frozen orange for daring to (*check notes*) play in the band to support the school's football team?

Rather than brag about how great those Cal kids (including, possibly, some of the posters here) were for assaulting visitors to Cal, just be grateful (1) no one got seriously injured, (2) the Cal students responsible weren't prosecuted, and (3) Cal football wasn't shut down because some idiots in the student section couldn't behave themselves.

*In boxing, punching to the back of the head is restricted for this very reason

Also stop saying card stunts have never been a thing. We literally invented them and have been doing them for over 100 years. A hiatus makes sense to me but there can be a solution in which we preserve its history. pic.twitter.com/qEzdGU7tkA

— Matt H (@korealaska) September 15, 2024

bear2034 said:

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Also stop saying card stunts have never been a thing. We literally invented them and have been doing them for over 100 years. A hiatus makes sense to me but there can be a solution in which we preserve its history. pic.twitter.com/qEzdGU7tkA

— Matt H (@korealaska) September 15, 2024

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I was at that game: the official reopening of Memorial. We beat the Bruins from the Southern Branch and we had the card stunts were fabulous. The Tedford years were a high point that I miss in many ways. (Thanks a lot Sandy.)

Back in my day, we did an abbreviated version of card stunts when we played the LA schools in the Coliseum. How far we have fallen due to neglect from the administration and poor coaching.

I think a hiatus is the right way to go. Seriously, the stunts either have not taken place (due to not having a sufficient number of students in seats) or they have been embarrassingly horrible. Let's build up the program by having card stunts at the Big Game only for a season or two. Can Rally Com switch to thick paper rather than cards until students learn how to do them? Can Rally Com reduce the area (number of seats) that are provided with cards?

rkt88edmo said:

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For all of you hating on card stunts *** IS WRONG WITH YOU!

Card stunts are glorious.

Card stunts are part of our history and tradition.

Pelting the players is avoidable.

and yeah - throwing the cards is awesome.

In the 1994 season it was sometimes the highlight of the game.

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Cmon, really? Nobody here is hating on card stunts, we are hating on UNNECESSARY 15 YARD PENALTIES.
Get it? (If your post was sarcastic then I guess you got me.)

72CalBear said:

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JSC 76 said:

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Dear students: Are you stupid? Or drunk? (Why not both?)


Rally Comm: If we're not going to have card stunts, we don't need cards. it's just putting a weapon in the hands of an idiot. Save yourselves the trouble.

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Exactly. The card stunts (when attempted) have been terrible for many years now. It's time to give them up. I hate to say this, because I know it's a tradition at Cal. But it's obvious that the current generation of students has no interest in them, so since they've become a liability, get rid of them altogether.

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Yes, we were different back in the 60s-70s in so many ways. I was actually nervous that I would miss the call and F up my cards. We also threw them straight up, and at halftime. The past few years the students don't seem to take it seriously (not scorning the Rally team), but it's time to let it go. Maybe at BG.

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They're terrible because at this point virtually no one remembers how to do or lead them - or how utterly cool they are when done well.

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Pretty sure I remember everyone throwing the cards as early as 1963 when I was a freshman. There was always an announcement. Do not throw your cards. Pass them to the left. No one passed them to the left. The big fear was that someone would get hit in the eye with the corner of a flying card. And oh, there was plenty of drinking back then. Remember gremmies? A flask of vodka poured into that frozen orange drink. A straw. And, voila, a nice cold screwdriver to kill the pain of watching a lousy team!

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Below my Berkeley apartment lived a much older Cal alumna who was indeed blinded in one eye by a thrown card. She was in the student section when she was hit. This was probably 60+ years ago. But it happens.

I'm not on the side to stop the card stunts or draconian crack downs on card throwing. Just "throwing" that out there. (Sorry.)

TandemBear said:

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Pretty sure I remember everyone throwing the cards as early as 1963 when I was a freshman. There was always an announcement. Do not throw your cards. Pass them to the left. No one passed them to the left. The big fear was that someone would get hit in the eye with the corner of a flying card. And oh, there was plenty of drinking back then. Remember gremmies? A flask of vodka poured into that frozen orange drink. A straw. And, voila, a nice cold screwdriver to kill the pain of watching a lousy team!

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Below my Berkeley apartment lived a much older Cal alumna who was indeed blinded in one eye by a thrown card. She was in the student section when she was hit. This was probably 60+ years ago. But it happens.

I'm not on the side to stop the card stunts or draconian crack downs on card throwing. Just "throwing" that out there. (Sorry.)

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The risk is real.