For those of you who couldn't make it to Berkeley.....
1. Beautiful day. Weather was just spectacular. If there's a prettier place in the world to see a football game I can't imagine where it might be.
2. The fraternities were in fine form before the game. Houses were packed. Music was loud and kids were having a great time. Even saw a bunch of students going down a giant inflatable water slide in various states of undress. We ran by all this as fast as possible covering the eyes of my impressionable teenage son the entire way.
3. The half time show where they had the two Pee Wee squads from Redwood something-or-other play each other was very cute. Only issue was that one of the coaches wore a bright red shirt. And he was very large so believe me that was a lot of red on our field. And speaking of fat.......
4. I try to avoid criticizing the student athletes, but I'm going to make an exception here. Yea gods, someone needs to tell the the Sac state linemen to lay off the cheese cake. I was really worried what would have happened if one of them fell over on our players or on the earthquake fault. Either seems like it could have been disastrous.
5. Great student turnout (at least from about the middle of the first quarter until the half). One of the largest non-Big Game groups I've seen in years. I know we gave the freshmen tickets for free but whatever we're doing we should keep it up. Well done. We need some practice with the card tricks though.
6. Team has a new Giant inflatable Bear head to run through at the beginning of the game. Also the fireworks were upgraded. Nice.
7. A musical tribute to Pink at halftime? Am I really that old? I barely even know who this is and now we're doing musical tributes to her with our marching band? Bring back the Beach Boys.
8. I was worried we were going to run out of loads for the cannon, especially since a few times the score was called back after they had fired it and then they'd have to shoot again when we got the score on the next play. By the end they weren't firing until they were really, really sure we were in. I thought we were all going to have to start yelling "Boom" like in that UOP game.
9. Scoreboard now says " Kabam" when we score, which is both amusing and a nice tie-in with the field naming rights. I'm just glad we didn't sell the field to Stay Puft Marshmellows.
10. The t-shirt cannon broke again. They had to resort to throwing the shirts. If we can put a man on the moon.......
11. Last and not least, everyone is much happier when we win. Crowd was absolutely jolly today.
Go Bears.
1. Beautiful day. Weather was just spectacular. If there's a prettier place in the world to see a football game I can't imagine where it might be.
2. The fraternities were in fine form before the game. Houses were packed. Music was loud and kids were having a great time. Even saw a bunch of students going down a giant inflatable water slide in various states of undress. We ran by all this as fast as possible covering the eyes of my impressionable teenage son the entire way.
3. The half time show where they had the two Pee Wee squads from Redwood something-or-other play each other was very cute. Only issue was that one of the coaches wore a bright red shirt. And he was very large so believe me that was a lot of red on our field. And speaking of fat.......
4. I try to avoid criticizing the student athletes, but I'm going to make an exception here. Yea gods, someone needs to tell the the Sac state linemen to lay off the cheese cake. I was really worried what would have happened if one of them fell over on our players or on the earthquake fault. Either seems like it could have been disastrous.
5. Great student turnout (at least from about the middle of the first quarter until the half). One of the largest non-Big Game groups I've seen in years. I know we gave the freshmen tickets for free but whatever we're doing we should keep it up. Well done. We need some practice with the card tricks though.
6. Team has a new Giant inflatable Bear head to run through at the beginning of the game. Also the fireworks were upgraded. Nice.
7. A musical tribute to Pink at halftime? Am I really that old? I barely even know who this is and now we're doing musical tributes to her with our marching band? Bring back the Beach Boys.
8. I was worried we were going to run out of loads for the cannon, especially since a few times the score was called back after they had fired it and then they'd have to shoot again when we got the score on the next play. By the end they weren't firing until they were really, really sure we were in. I thought we were all going to have to start yelling "Boom" like in that UOP game.
9. Scoreboard now says " Kabam" when we score, which is both amusing and a nice tie-in with the field naming rights. I'm just glad we didn't sell the field to Stay Puft Marshmellows.
10. The t-shirt cannon broke again. They had to resort to throwing the shirts. If we can put a man on the moon.......
11. Last and not least, everyone is much happier when we win. Crowd was absolutely jolly today.
Go Bears.