What you sunshine pumpers call "NegaBears", outside observers such as Ted Miller calls centered college football fans.
PS - Which one of you wrote those notes to Miller? I know both of you are on this board.
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/28552/opening-the-mailbag-doubts-about-luck
David from Sacramento writes: There's no question that CAL hasn't been the same since the 2007 Oregon St. Kevin Riley scramble. Anywho, This is the way i look at cal. They haven't gone to the Rose Bowl since the 50's and obviously haven't been much of a factor in the conference in the last 50 years. Are they cursed like the Red Sox were? I mean, was Kevin Rileys scramble in 2007 the Bill Buckner of 1986 ????? And is watching SC win titles and Rose Bowls like watching the Yankees as a Red Sox fan? What is it? "The Curse of the great Pappy Waldorf" or how bout "The curse of the great Nate Longshore getting hurt so Kevin Riley scrambled" or maybe "The curse of the Great Mack Brown" Please come up with something witty to describe this torture of being California Golden Bear supporter.
Jerris from Queens, NY, writes: The Bears should roll over UCLA, which is awful on defense? After reading that as an Old Blue, I completely expect Cal to be shut out by a shockingly adept and inspired UCLA defense. That's just how it works.
Ted Miller: I have no biases among Pac-12 teams. But I do love Cal fans.
They send me notes like these. Per capita, they send the fewest, "You're a &%$ idiot" notes and the most 2,000-word essays. I love the earnestness. And humor. If the ultimate Cal fan were played in a movie, Adam Goldberg would get the part: [U]Smart, hopeful, neurotic but in the end mostly centered.[/U] (And before Cal fans take offense he dated Christina Ricci. 'Nuff said, eh?).
David, give me some time to think about it. Cal fans deserve the effort.
PS - Which one of you wrote those notes to Miller? I know both of you are on this board.
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/28552/opening-the-mailbag-doubts-about-luck
David from Sacramento writes: There's no question that CAL hasn't been the same since the 2007 Oregon St. Kevin Riley scramble. Anywho, This is the way i look at cal. They haven't gone to the Rose Bowl since the 50's and obviously haven't been much of a factor in the conference in the last 50 years. Are they cursed like the Red Sox were? I mean, was Kevin Rileys scramble in 2007 the Bill Buckner of 1986 ????? And is watching SC win titles and Rose Bowls like watching the Yankees as a Red Sox fan? What is it? "The Curse of the great Pappy Waldorf" or how bout "The curse of the great Nate Longshore getting hurt so Kevin Riley scrambled" or maybe "The curse of the Great Mack Brown" Please come up with something witty to describe this torture of being California Golden Bear supporter.
Jerris from Queens, NY, writes: The Bears should roll over UCLA, which is awful on defense? After reading that as an Old Blue, I completely expect Cal to be shut out by a shockingly adept and inspired UCLA defense. That's just how it works.
Ted Miller: I have no biases among Pac-12 teams. But I do love Cal fans.
They send me notes like these. Per capita, they send the fewest, "You're a &%$ idiot" notes and the most 2,000-word essays. I love the earnestness. And humor. If the ultimate Cal fan were played in a movie, Adam Goldberg would get the part: [U]Smart, hopeful, neurotic but in the end mostly centered.[/U] (And before Cal fans take offense he dated Christina Ricci. 'Nuff said, eh?).
David, give me some time to think about it. Cal fans deserve the effort.
