Favorite Big Game Memories

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In reply to Beardog26 • 7:37p, 11/13/18
Beardog26 said:
1986. I was a senior co-captain, with Hardy Nickerson and Doug Riesenberg. Senior day. My final game wearing a Cal football uniform.

We were more than 10 point underdogs and Furd/Toi Cook had been smugly predicting victory all week. We had six sacks and beat Furd 17-11 to knock them out of a bowl game and conclude my football playing career on a beautiful fall Saturday in Strawberry Canyon/Memorial Stadium.

Steve Hendrickson and I carried Joe Kapp (his final game, too, a few weeks after ZipperGate) around the field on our shoulders through the frenzied students and alumni rushing the field after the game, and Hardy Nickerson climbed the director's ladder to lead the band in raucous post-game Cal fight songs. The locker room had crazy energy and the party lasted a couple nights.

One of my favorite life memories! Go Bears!!
I only regret that I have but one like to give for this post.

I'd like to put in a few words for a sentimental favorite of mine, the 2003 game. Not flashy, but meaningful. First Big Game away victory I saw, after several losses. Bears go into the game needing a win to get bowl eligibility (after being denied their bowl appeal in 2002), then proceed to play the absolute worst first half they could possibly play. Surprisingly, only down 10-0. I turn to my wife and say "We're winning this game by ten points." Bears roar back in the second half, win comfortably 28-16, and the petty part of me loved watching Chris Lewis finish his furd QB career taking meaningless snaps while having to listen to the Bear Territory chant in his own house.

Also a shoutout to TC Ostrander, who took an absolute mauling in the 2004 Big Game. Amazing that he kept getting up.
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In reply to BearsWiin • 8:00p, 11/13/18
BearsWiin said:
Beardog26 said:
1986. I was a senior co-captain, with Hardy Nickerson and Doug Riesenberg. Senior day. My final game wearing a Cal football uniform.

We were more than 10 point underdogs and Furd/Toi Cook had been smugly predicting victory all week. We had six sacks and beat Furd 17-11 to knock them out of a bowl game and conclude my football playing career on a beautiful fall Saturday in Strawberry Canyon/Memorial Stadium.

Steve Hendrickson and I carried Joe Kapp (his final game, too, a few weeks after ZipperGate) around the field on our shoulders through the frenzied students and alumni rushing the field after the game, and Hardy Nickerson climbed the director's ladder to lead the band in raucous post-game Cal fight songs. The locker room had crazy energy and the party lasted a couple nights.

One of my favorite life memories! Go Bears!!
I only regret that I have but one like to give for this post.

I'd like to put in a few words for a sentimental favorite of mine, the 2003 game. Not flashy, but meaningful. First Big Game away victory I saw, after several losses. Bears go into the game needing a win to get bowl eligibility (after being denied their bowl appeal in 2002), then proceed to play the absolute worst first half they could possibly play. Surprisingly, only down 10-0. I turn to my wife and say "We're winning this game by ten points." Bears roar back in the second half, win comfortably 28-16, and the petty part of me loved watching Chris Lewis finish his furd QB career taking meaningless snaps while having to listen to the Bear Territory chant in his own house.

Also a shoutout to TC Ostrander, who took an absolute mauling in the 2004 Big Game. Amazing that he kept getting up.
Agree! 2003 was the AR - Geoff McArthur show (16 catches for nearly 200 yds if I recall right) and as we left the Stanford Stadium I could hear "This is Bear Territory" booming out of the Cal locker room there. This was JT's day. My wife and I returned to our hotel in Palo Alto to the small empty hotel bar there for a drink, and who should walk in with his wife and a couple of friends? JT. As they sat down my wife said, "Don't you dare!". Well, I waited until she went to the restroom and then ran to the hotel lobby, paid $5 to the receptionist for a Sharpie, and then ran back to have JT autograph the game program. We ended up chatting and it turned out he used to surf by the same lifeguard station in HB as my wife! As he left, I will never forget, he called out, "See you at the bowl game", and of course we did at the Insight Bowl, where we ran into him again. I still have the autographed program on my wall.
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In reply to HearstMining • 9:01p, 11/13/18
Went to high school with Torchio. He lived maybe a 1/2 mile away. Remember him a bit.
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In reply to bearister • 10:03p, 11/13/18
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'75 down on The Farm. Muncie. Roth. A Win. Stephen Stills. Neil Young. The End

Man it was hellatious getting into the stadium for that game. Muncie was a wrecking crew, literally destroyed them (along with some help from an awesome O-Line).
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10:07p, 11/13/18
1970 Big Game. Shooting water baloons at the furdie band at half time. Dave Penhall, awesome D-Line manhandling anything the furdies could do, including Jim Plunkett.
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In reply to bearister • 11:19p, 11/13/18
The '75 blowout win.

Some time in the third quarter after yet another Muncie score, my friend and I were jumping up and down in unison and the plank under our feet broke. The ends of the plank stayed connected to the hardware while the middle fell down onto the dirt. Uncomfortable to sit or stand the rest of the game, but worth it.

We refer to is as the time we broke the Stanfurd stadium.


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In reply to Beardog26 • 11:37p, 11/13/18
Beardog26 said:
1986. I was a senior co-captain, with Hardy Nickerson and Doug Riesenberg. Senior day. My final game wearing a Cal football uniform.

We were more than 10 point underdogs and Furd/Toi Cook had been smugly predicting victory all week. We had six sacks and beat Furd 17-11 to knock them out of a bowl game and conclude my football playing career on a beautiful fall Saturday in Strawberry Canyon/Memorial Stadium.

Steve Hendrickson and I carried Joe Kapp (his final game, too, a few weeks after ZipperGate) around the field on our shoulders through the frenzied students and alumni rushing the field after the game, and Hardy Nickerson climbed the director's ladder to lead the band in raucous post-game Cal fight songs. The locker room had crazy energy and the party lasted a couple nights.

One of my favorite life memories! Go Bears!!
IIRC, Joe Kapp was carried out through north tunnel. I was sitting so close I could see the tears on his face. Unforgettable memory of a great Big Game!
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12:00a, 11/14/18
Wow, you guys remember a lot of stuff about your youth....mine are mostly clouded by alcohol and smoke fumes....
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In reply to MSaviolives • 8:20a, 11/14/18
MSaviolives said:
1974 (I've told this story before):

I was a high school senior working at Oscar's, where a number of the campus cops would come by for coffee at night. I befriended several of them, often not charging them because I liked them around for personal safety late at night. One of them offered to get me and a buddy in to the Big Game. I met him at a pre-arranged time with a buddy and he had us both handcuffed and then escorted us through the gate. Once inside, he freed us and told us to stay out of trouble.

We lost on a last minute field goal IIRC. But a fun memory.

I've been to many Big Games on my own dime since. As for actual game enjoyment, there are so many--every win is a great Big Game!

Go Bears!
Now that is one heck of a story!

Go Bears!
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1:32p, 11/14/18


Just like yesterday.
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4:56p, 11/14/18
Funny how their "Big Game Memories" thread only has 2 posts and is sad and weak compared to ours. Feel free to point and laugh.
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In reply to 510 Bear • 5:06p, 11/14/18
510 Bear said:
Funny how their "Big Game Memories" thread only has 2 posts and is sad and weak compared to ours. Feel free to point and laugh.
Unfortunately, they don't have to live on their memories as much as we do. They've won more Big Games than we have. I won't be pointing and laughing until we win several more Big Games, and at least catch up.
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In reply to Beardog26 • 6:10p, 11/14/18
Beardog26 said:
1986. I was a senior co-captain, with Hardy Nickerson and Doug Riesenberg. Senior day. My final game wearing a Cal football uniform.

We were more than 10 point underdogs and Furd/Toi Cook had been smugly predicting victory all week. We had six sacks and beat Furd 17-11 to knock them out of a bowl game and conclude my football playing career on a beautiful fall Saturday in Strawberry Canyon/Memorial Stadium.

Steve Hendrickson and I carried Joe Kapp (his final game, too, a few weeks after ZipperGate) around the field on our shoulders through the frenzied students and alumni rushing the field after the game, and Hardy Nickerson climbed the director's ladder to lead the band in raucous post-game Cal fight songs. The locker room had crazy energy and the party lasted a couple nights.

One of my favorite life memories! Go Bears!!


I think was one of my very favorite big games as well. Went to every game that year - I think the student section had some of the very best cheers - like "Hey Joe, show us your di*k, etc. team was struggling and Joe was fired before the game. We knew he had to go, but we all loved him. And the team came through. The crowd was electric because it was so unexpected and the furd was just pissed. Game stared at 12:30 and I drank until I passed out at about 5 the next morning. The streets around campus post game were wild that night with almost everyone out in the streets. It was a really nice day and the party lasted. About midnight I was drinking at Manny's in Durant Center (before they were shut down for serving everyone) with ton of people. I was dancing in a table
with Oski who was still in full regalia late in the evening. We got tossed out and had a kingpin donut to help restart the engines. Apple fritter.
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6:26p, 11/14/18
2002 was my favorite with qualifiers. Neither my son and I had ever seen a Cal victory during our years at Cal. My 2 seats were moved from our west side seats to over the Cal tunnel (make room for the higher paying fans ?). I was hoarse from screaming, and my newly graduated (from Cal) son was too. We watched the fans take down the south goalpost, and then watched the slow movement down to where they dumped it in front of Sproul Hall. We then went up to my son's former frat, and the whole area was like Mardi Gras. After all that postgame activity time, it was still almost gridlock getting out of Berkeley.
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6:32p, 11/14/18
This will be my 42nd straight one...so there are so many... 1-Playing in the 1982 game, my last one as a player and 2- Being immortalized in Lego's in a Youtube recreation of The Play a couple of years back.
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In reply to SFCityBear • 6:55p, 11/14/18
SFCityBear said:
510 Bear said:
Funny how their "Big Game Memories" thread only has 2 posts and is sad and weak compared to ours. Feel free to point and laugh.
Unfortunately, they don't have to live on their memories as much as we do. They've won more Big Games than we have. I won't be pointing and laughing until we win several more Big Games, and at least catch up.


Tell me about it! (Or really, don't, as my heart hurts enough as it is.)

During my four years as a student, Cal lost every damn Big Game to the Furd. It sucked never seeing the Axe in its rightful place as a student. What's worse is that for most of the years after I graduated, the Axe has remained missing from its rightful place.
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7:15p, 11/14/18
I have very fond memories of the '94 game.

That was my first ever Big Game, I was 5 years old, and that was the genesis of my love of Cal Football.

I went with my dad and a family friend of ours who played baseball at Cal, Fred.

At the end of the game, Fred threw me up on his shoulders and we stormed the field, escaping the grasps of the Event Staff. We ran around the field high-fiving players and fans. So awesome.

After the game on the way home, Fred presented me with the "Cal Fan of the Year" Award which included a Cal football helmet, game ball and a Cal jersey with my last name on the back. I can still remember the excitement I felt as a little boy receiving that.

I did not find out until many years later that Fred had hand painted an old helmet in the Cal blue and gold and had stolen a football from the Community College he coached baseball at so a 5 year old could feel special.

Still one of my fondest memories to date.
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I think it was the 1970 BG where there was some political unrest here and there with a few bomb scares and the Furd band was out on the field before the game started and some guy runs on the field with some sort of a protest flag and the Furd band stopped their performance and beat the **** out of him-probably when they were still "The Indians" Also that performance by Plunkett with those long high accurate passes proved him to be a legend.

1982 one of the first on the field in the Cal end zone after "the play" standing next to Cal player looking around in amazement and I asking him "who spiked the TB player for the win" and said "I did."
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In reply to smh • 10:48a, 11/15/18
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cal83dls79 said:
Had two extra tix to the farm in 1981. Went to a Clorox party the night before and offered them to a former girlfriend and my now wife.
congrats to you both. um, and whats a Clorox party?

just guessing, our first bg was 1972, all memories fled.


Clorox, the conglomerate had a HQ in Oakland and hired lots of Cal MBAs. My sister in law knew a guy who worked there. He now owns Semmifreddis
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In reply to BBBGOBEARS • 11:57a, 11/15/18
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1982 one of the first on the field in the Cal end zone after "the play" standing next to Cal player looking around in amazement and I asking him "who spiked the TB player for the win" and said "I did."
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 12:03p, 11/15/18
cal83dls79 said:
s said:
..Clorox party..
Clorox, the conglomerate had a HQ in Oakland and hired lots of Cal MBAs. My sister in law knew a guy who worked there. He now owns Semmifreddis
oh yeah, thanks cal83dls79, of course, and NOT to smoke, snort, nor who knows what else kids did back in the day.
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12:34p, 11/15/18
There are so many special Big Game memories. All of the obvious ones stand out and we could debate which catch, pick, or TD run was the best. But the more and more I think about it, there's one memory that needs more special attention called to it. And that is the performance of the offensive line in the 2009 Big Game. Sure, Mike Mohamed had the pick that everyone remembers and yes Shane Vereen had a game for the ages. But the true unsung hero of that game is the Cal Oline. Their will and determination to keep coming each play was a thing of beauty. They just kept getting nastier and stronger as the game went along. The Cal offense was able to sustain and score on so many long drives that day due to the heroic effort by the Cal Oline.

And for Cal to take back the Axe in 2018, I believe Cal's Oline will once again need to rise to the occasion and dominate the line of scrimmage. Here's to Cal's offensive line putting it all together for one game!
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In reply to smh • 1:51p, 11/15/18
smh said:
cal83dls79 said:
s said:
..Clorox party..
Clorox, the conglomerate had a HQ in Oakland and hired lots of Cal MBAs. My sister in law knew a guy who worked there. He now owns Semmifreddis
oh yeah, thanks cal83dls79, of course, and NOT to smoke, snort, nor who knows what else kids did back in the day.
Chugging Clorox not good for the health. Semifreddies is high in carbs, but still less dangerous than Clorox.
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In reply to BBBGOBEARS • 2:31p, 11/15/18
BBBGOBEARS said:

I think it was the 1970 BG where there was some political unrest here and there with a few bomb scares and the Furd band was out on the field before the game started and some guy runs on the field with some sort of a protest flag and the Furd band stopped their performance and beat the **** out of him-probably when they were still "The Indians" Also that performance by Plunkett with those long high accurate passes proved him to be a legend.

1982 one of the first on the field in the Cal end zone after "the play" standing next to Cal player looking around in amazement and I asking him "who spiked the TB player for the win" and said "I did."


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3:39p, 11/15/18
2002. My wife finally saw Cal win. God bless JT.
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In reply to kjkbear • 3:43p, 11/21/19
What the hell...I'm bumping this thread from last year.

My favorite BGs played on the Farm:

1. 2009 (Big upset sealed by Mikey Mo's pick)
2. 1993 (Curb-stomping by Cal, finally beating the Genius)
3. 1979 (Coccimiglio with the game-saving pick in the end zone)
Honorable mention: 2005 (Steve Levy FTW)

What are your favorite 3? I'd asked for a top 10, but only really old posters would be able to come up with that many.
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3:55p, 11/21/19
2009
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In reply to HighlandDutch • 4:12p, 11/21/19
HighlandDutch said:
What the hell...I'm bumping this thread from last year.

My favorite BGs played on the Farm:

1. 2009 (Big upset sealed by Mikey Mo's pick)
2. 1993 (Curb-stomping by Cal, finally beating the Genius)
3. 1979 (Coccimiglio with the game-saving pick in the end zone)
Honorable mention: 2005 (Steve Levy FTW)

What are your favorite 3? I'd asked for a top 10, but only really old posters would be able to come up with that many.
1975: Chuck Muncie runs wild! California 48, Stanfurd 15 (Joe Roth, Steve Rivera, Wesley Walker ... yowza!)

(We were headed to the Rose Bowl until disaster struck, shortly after Thanksgiving. I was a freshman. Though terribly disappointed, I just figured I'd have to wait a year... ouch.)

Been to every Big Game since! Saturday will be my 45th consecutive and I am fired up!

GO BEARS!!!
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 4:14p, 11/21/19
cal83dls79 said:
smh said:
cal83dls79 said:
Had two extra tix to the farm in 1981. Went to a Clorox party the night before and offered them to a former girlfriend and my now wife.
congrats to you both. um, and whats a Clorox party?

just guessing, our first bg was 1972, all memories fled.


Clorox, the conglomerate had a HQ in Oakland and hired lots of Cal MBAs. My sister in law knew a guy who worked there. He now owns Semmifreddis
I'm glad this got clarified, because when I first saw the initial reference to a Clorox party I had visualized a party so wild that Clorox had to be used for the after party clean up.
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In reply to 510 Bear • 4:15p, 11/21/19
510 Bear said:
2002 when a bunch of Cal fans took down the goal posts, removed them from the stadium, paraded them down Bancroft and then tried to take them onto BART. (OK, I made up that last part.)
Mine too. I saw a couple others in person during the Tedford years (2004, 2005), but those games were not competitive and Furd fans had so resigned themselves to losing they didn't have much spark.

Second best memory would be the 1993 BG, the only BG win for me as a student. Also first direct taste of Furd fan apathy, which makes a rivalry win about as satisfying as punching Jell-O. BG wins are a lot more fun in Memorial.

My most vivid BG memory was 1990, standing on the sideline while the kick sailed straight through the uprights. It's always easier to remember nightmares than good dreams.

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In reply to MSaviolives • 4:20p, 11/21/19
MSaviolives said:
cal83dls79 said:
smh said:
cal83dls79 said:
Had two extra tix to the farm in 1981. Went to a Clorox party the night before and offered them to a former girlfriend and my now wife.
congrats to you both. um, and whats a Clorox party?

just guessing, our first bg was 1972, all memories fled.


Clorox, the conglomerate had a HQ in Oakland and hired lots of Cal MBAs. My sister in law knew a guy who worked there. He now owns Semmifreddis
I'm glad this got clarified, because when I first saw the initial reference to a Clorox party I had visualized a party so wild that Clorox had to be used for the after party clean up.
Back in my day... we didn't use Clorox. We just pushed the keg aside, ran a mop that was sitting in a bucket of black water from a time nobody could remember, pushed the dirt and dried beer around, replaced the keg and got ready for game day.

Those were the good old days. I think.
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4:29p, 11/21/19
November 20, 1982. Running around on the field after the game. Age 28. Cherry on top: Ole horse face saying after the game in an interview that The Play, "Ruined My Big Game."




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5:01p, 11/21/19
All time favorite has to be the 2019 Big Game where we broke Stanford's 10 year streak, my son won the Rally Comm axe stare down in the end zone and we all rushed their field (again) and refused to leave before dawn. Of course in hindsight it's even better since that was the game that represented the turning point for our ascent as a major football power and Stanford's slide into oblivion which of course culminated in their stadium being officially converted to the worlds largest Taco Bell in the year 2030. Good times.
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I really enjoyed the 79 game, Cal jumps out 14-0, Stanford ties it, Campbell hits TE Rose for TD, at first it gets waved off, then official corrects his mistake. Schonert marches Stanford length of field late in game, then Coccimiglo knocks down 4th down pass. Didn't hurt weather was beautiful. Saturday will be my 44th Big Game, not bad for a UCD grad.
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In reply to BearGreg • 5:48p, 11/21/19
BearGreg said:
What is your favorite personal story related to the Big Game?
1963 - the game was postponed one week due to JFK's assassination. When the game was played on the Farm, there was a very long moment of silence during which you could have heard a pin drop. 88,000 totally silent. Wow. The thought of it is one of the most enduring memories of my youth. One other note to add - the lone trumpet to initiate the National Anthem was first played by the Stanford band on that day. It is without a doubt the best version of the anthem anyone, anywhere has ever played.
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