Agreed, Cal has played very well against both of these fellows

Last year Kawakami and Wilner (and some Cal supporters) blasted Stanford fans for failing to sell out Big Game until the actual day of the game, but I see none of that outrage this year at Cal fans with the game up at Memorial and tickets still available in at least seven sections, according to Cal’s ticket website. What gives?

Furd is running radio ads for tickets, I’m down in Santa Cruz and 98.5 (based out of San Jose I believe) runs the ads several times per week… It looks like they may not be working (judging by the low attendance this year), but they are reaching out to a larger market I guess….

Anyone know if you guys sold out your ticket allotment to the Big Game this week?

I was also at the 1990 Big Game (as well as 1982!). I think the reason 1990 doesn’t get remembered all that well is that there wasn’t one single dramatic play that won the game for Stanford. Instead, there was a series of events that took only 12 seconds on the clock, but took several minutes in real time. So there just isn’t that one moment, that one call by the announcer, that captures the imagination. But there is no question that it was an incredible ending. (Incredibly horrible, from my point of view!)

The 1990 game was my first Big Game as a student. I was a freshman and I just remember feeling sick to my stomach at the end of that game. My roommate was so upset he couldn’t sleep all night. I think what made it feel worse was that the refs played such an integral role in the outcome by flagging the fans and then calling the roughing the passer (I always thought it was a PI penalty) that put the Cardinal in field goal range.

It certainly was a dramatic ending and I can still see the Stanfurd student section jumping up and down and celebrating. It was particularly painful since Cal hadn’t had the axe since 1986 since the tie in 1988 permitted the team that had the axe to retain it. Even after that we lost in 1991 and 1992 and it wasn’t until 1993 that we finally were able to end the 6 year drought.

I also think that Cal changed their game day policy to no longer allow hard fruit into Memorial after that game. I just remember people launching oranges and apples all the way across the stadium into the Stanfurd student section using one of those water balloon sling shots. Good times. I think back then the visitor’s section was in sections JJ, J and K, instead of where they are now (OO, O, N).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZzH1jSDrs

But I think the difference is that Cal’s good years haven’t led to a Rose Bowl.

That was helped along by the shameless, pathetic, and unseemly politicking and begging done by that windbag Mack Brown.

Still, you may be right about the Bears wanting this one more this year, but I don’t know if that would be true if the roles were reversed. I seem to recall some pretty serious Axe-related hardons in Palo Alto during the past 8 years.

And here I thought I was being polite and pleasant.

I refer you to one Stanfurd fan who goes by the name of Karlifornia. Perhaps he is the exception that proves your rule, but by and large I think the proportion of Cal fans who truly hate Stanford is the same as the proportion of Stanford fans who truly hate Cal.

In my dealings with other Old Blues the feelings toward the farm is pretty much the same as you have toward Cal. Furd blows. Beyond that, it’s pretty hard not to have some respect for your institution.