We all know, of course, that Monday night's game pits Davis Webb's successor vs. his predecessor.

But here's some more dumb trivia:

Goff was the first Cal football player selected 1st overall in the NFL Draft since Steve Bartkowski in 1975.

Bartkowski was also the last former Cal QB to start for the Los Angeles Rams before Goff. (Bartkowski started the first few games of 1986, rookie Jim Everett started the last few games of 1986.)

Bartkowski was the first QB signed by superagent Leigh Steinberg, who has represented more than 100 NFL QBs.

The last QB signed by Steinberg: Patrick Mahomes.

Mahomes appears to be using an Apple iPhone in the picture below. (Hopefully, I'm not mistaken.)

Steinberg was an R.A. at Unit 3 Norton Hall in fall of 1971 when he got to know members of the Cal football team who lived in the dorm, including then-freshman Steve Bartkowski. (Steinberg was a UC Berkeley law student in his late 20s at the time.)

One of the Norton Hall residents Steinberg had to supervise in fall 1971 was Steve Wozniak. The future Apple co-founder and his 16-year-old pal, Steve Jobs, would get into all kinds of shenanigans in Norton Hall, including phone phreaking. Wozniak also used his first floor dorm room for him and Jobs' meeting with legendary hacker Captain Crunch.

Anybody got any more dumb trivia?

Both their fathers played in MLB...same time?

SmellinRoses said:

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Both their fathers played in MLB...same time?

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Okay, just looked it up. Goff's dad played in the National League while Mahomes' dad played in the American League when they were in MLB at the same time.

Goff's final season was 1996, the last season before Interleague play.

This doesn't really tie Goff to Mahomes but I believe Bartkowski's predecessor at Cal was Vince Ferragamo. Ferragamo lost the Cal QB job to Bartkowski and transferred to Nebraska, where he went on to become All-America. He was then drafted by ... the Rams and led them to the super bowl. So there's yet another Cal-Rams QB connection.

He also played for the Packers, where another Cal QB currently slings the rock.

FuzzyWuzzy said:

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This doesn't really tie Goff to Mahomes but I believe Bartkowski's predecessor at Cal was Vince Ferragamo. Ferragamo lost the Cal QB job to Bartkowski and transferred to Nebraska, where he went on to become All-America. He was then drafted by ... the Rams and led them to the super bowl. So there's yet another Cal-Rams QB connection.

He also played for the Packers, where another Cal QB currently slings the rock.

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The guy on the left became the starter over Steve Bartkowski.*

The guy on the right lost the starting job to Steve Bartkowski.

(*Bartkowski's last start was October 19, 1986. Everett's first start was November 16, 1986. There was a three-game transition where another QB started.)

Some more random Cal QB draft trivia that some of you might remember:

Aaron Rodgers became the first Cal QB to be selected in the first round by the Green Bay Packers since Rich Campbell in 1981.

When Rodgers got drafted to be Brett Favre's successor, he got a call from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Favre lived. It was from Campbell, who had become editorial page editor of the Hattiesburg newspaper.

okaydo said:

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Bartkowski was the first QB signed by superagent Leigh Steinberg, who has represented more than 100 NFL QBs....

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At the time Steinberg "signed" him, Bart was already "signed" with his agent, the late great Golden Bear Wayne Hooper (who was the agent for Jim Plunkett, Ray Chester, other Raiders, Ray Fosse, and other A's). Years later Bart told Wayne he made a mistake.

bearister said:

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okaydo said:

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Bartkowski was the first QB signed by superagent Leigh Steinberg, who has represented more than 100 NFL QBs....

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At the time Steinberg "signed" him, Bart was already "signed" with his agent, the late great Golden Bear Wayne Hooper (who was the agent for Jim Plunkett, Ray Chester, other Raiders, Ray Fosse, and other A's). Years later Bart told Wayne he made a mistake.

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Wow, thanks. I wasn't aware of him . But now I've read a couple of his obits and am ashamed I didn't know about him.

Steinberg has had ups and downs over the years. So it's crazy that he has the hottest QB this season (sorry, Jared). The Jerry Maguire Effect must be really powerful.

I have always thought the way Wozniak and Jobs bragged about stealing long distance minutes in the dorm with their invention like it was harmless college hijinks only served to underscore what dishonest ******bags they were. Their conduct was felonious. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have the same business ethics.

bearister said:

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I have always thought the way Wozniak and Jobs bragged about stealing long distance minutes in the dorm with their invention like it was harmless college hijinks only served to underscore what dishonest ******bags they were. Their conduct was felonious. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have the same business ethics.

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After the events of this past week, my view of Sandberg has definitely been downgraded, especially with her having spoken at commencement a few years ago. I don't use Facebook personally. Only for work. Actually, there's somebody who I follow on Twitter named Nell Scovell (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/arts/television/nell-scovell-television-comedy-me-too.html) who is a really groundbreaking woman, whom I'm really disappointed in. She's was one of the rare female Late Night with David Letterman writers in his boy's club -- despite Cal grad Merrill Markoe co-creating Late Night and serving as its head writer. She also wrote for The Simpsons and for Obama (she wrote his joke dissing Matt Damon). Scovell also co-wrote Lean In with Sandberg, and it sucks that she helped promote that BS.


Anyways, one of my Daily Cal colleagues was one of the rare journalists to call out Steve Jobs for his scumbag tendencies after he died: https://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs

A year and a half before Jobs died, that same person got into a contentious email exchange with Jobs late at night.

The original story was taken down, but you can read about it on the following links or see the original email exchange below:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/16/steve-jobs-gawker-emails-_n_577858.html

https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/15/steve-jobs-spars-with-gawker-blogger-over-revolutions-freedom-and-porn/#ixzz0oC2DLJ56

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/05/17/a-berkeley-blogger-a-cocktail-or-two-and-a-wee-hours-email-exchange-with-apple-ceo-steve-jobs

I knew a few guys into telephony, hacking and all that while at Cal. It was basically a geek hobby but combined with an EECS degree, one guy got a job a NASA Ames, internet security. Some geeks use their super powers for good.

I'm going to lay awake tonight, wondering if Mahones might've been using an Android phone, thus causing all of this to collapse like a house of cards, but here's some more...

Sandberg and Steinberg share the same last four letters of their last names... in the same order!

Speaking of fours...

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. The FOUR of them, plus Goff, Mahones, Bartkowski and Davis Webb (Notice: four and four!) were all (presumably) born in the USA!!! What sport was the Kennedy family know for playing? Touch FOOTBALL! What US President might well have been able to throw a football a long way? Lincoln!!!

Goff and Webb both have FOUR letters in their last names... as does the number four itself!!!

Four times four is sixteen and Lincoln was our sixteenth President!!!

Jared Goff and Abraham Lincoln share the same estimated height... six foot FOUR!!!

Who was one of the most famous people to die this past week? Stan Lee, who has the same LAST name as Steinberg's FIRST name. And what did Stan Lee create? The Fantastic FOUR!!! Lee and Kennedy both had FOUR letters in their first names!!! Stan Lee shared the same last name with Lincoln's battlefield nemesis, Robert E. Lee!!! Goff, Bartkowski, Webb and Mahones are all said to have "legitimate cannons"... as did General Lee!!!

Big C said:

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I'm going to lay awake tonight, wondering if Mahones might've been using an Android phone, thus causing all of this to collapse like a house of cards, but here's some more...

Sandberg and Steinberg share the same last four letters of their last names... in the same order!

Speaking of fours...

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. The FOUR of them, plus Goff, Mahones, Bartkowski and Davis Webb (Notice: four and four!) were all (presumably) born in the USA!!!

Who was one of the most famous people to die this past week? Stan Lee, who has the same LAST name as Steinberg's FIRST name. And what did Stan Lee create? The Fantastic FOUR!!!

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Hey, I said his thread was dumb.

okaydo said:

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Big C said:

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I'm going to lay awake tonight, wondering if Mahones might've been using an Android phone, thus causing all of this to collapse like a house of cards, but here's some more...

Sandberg and Steinberg share the same last four letters of their last names... in the same order!

Speaking of fours...

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. The FOUR of them, plus Goff, Mahones, Bartkowski and Davis Webb (Notice: four and four!) were all (presumably) born in the USA!!!

Who was one of the most famous people to die this past week? Stan Lee, who has the same LAST name as Steinberg's FIRST name. And what did Stan Lee create? The Fantastic FOUR!!!

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Hey, I said his thread was dumb.

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Yes, which is why I feel like I fit right in!

PS: I added some new **** in my post above, Check it out!

A guy at work has one of those daily trivia calendars and each week he posts them in the men's room, above the urinal.

Goff, Bartkowski, Webb and Aaron Rodgers have all used urinals... in the same football stadium!