Stanford/Maryland

[Mikey]

So there's 267 people at this game. Not exactly even sure where Santa Clara was, I pulled up driving directions and found that Stanford is all of 12.8 miles from Levi Stadium.

The fuck? How can the Pac get any love when it's own people won't even attend yet another bowl home game?

It's cold. They're all watching on TV.

[Mikey]

So there's 267 people at this game. Not exactly even sure where Santa Clara was, I pulled up driving directions and found that Stanford is all of 12.8 miles from Levi Stadium.

The fuck? How can the Pac get any love when it's own people won't even attend yet another bowl home game?

It's cold. They're all watching on TV.

Seriously, Mikey. That has to embarrass you a little bit. I mean - not many of the bowls have had good turnouts this year, but this is a HOME GAME for you guys!

Fuck if I know. It's a mystery to me. If I lived up there I definitely be going, but I'm like 600 miles away.

When I was a kid we used to go to the games. They had a 90,000 seat stadium back of then and they'd fill it for USC UCLA and Cal. Seems like other conference games would be 60,000 or more. Now they have a great program. Exciting teams. But nobody goes. Different bunch of people living in Palo Alto these days, I guess.

This kid McCaffery is going to be something.

[Left Seater]

Stanford confused me this season. Saw a few games and they seemed a little Jeckle and Hyde.

They are rolling today and can likely name their score here in the second half.

[matteric]

So there's 267 people at this game.

Looks like stanfurd brought all their fans.

Not exactly even sure where Santa Clara was, I pulled up driving directions and found that Stanford is all of 12.8 miles from Levi Stadium.

The fuck? How can the Pac get any love when it's own people won't even attend yet another bowl home game?

This is what happens when you don't watch PAC 12 football.



This is what big time stanfurd football is all about. Playing in front of 500 people in a wind swept suburban shithole

[Mikey]

What was the attendance Cal's bowl game this week?

[matteric]

What was the attendance Cal's bowl game this week?

You're drunk.



Are you questioning me about stanfurd's attendance for football games, this year ?

[Mikey]

No, dumbfuck.

I'm asking you how many people saw Cal play in a bowl game this year.

[matteric]

No, dumbfuck.

I'm asking you how many people saw Cal play in a bowl game this year.

Then you're not very bright, since you had to ask the question.



Cal still won't pay kids to come to their school to play football with 2.50 GPA's for game recognition..



Sup, Barry Sanders Jr.,..




That's probably why there's still... no Stanfurdium.



You feeling me ?

[Mikey]

Attendance Smack?
Really?
Is that where you want to go?

I guess this means that the rich techno-geeks who have pretty much taken over the Peninsula just don't care quite as much about College Football as the renfaire queens in Berserkley.

But who really GARA, as long as Stanford continues to kick Cal's ass up and down the field on a regular basis?
I guess you have to, because it's all you've got.

Let's see...Stanford had their worst season in five years, but still made it to their fifth consecutive bowl game (four of them BCS). Cal had their best record since 2011 but they're all at home watching TV or, hopefully, catching up on their remedial English studies. How many times has Cal even been bowl eligible in the past five years?

My previous point being (since you're too stupid to figure it out) that even if only 1,000 people showed up for the Chicken Bowl, it's 1,000 more than saw Cal play in a bowl game this year.


BTW...Stanford's average home attendance this season was higher than Cal's was at their beautiful new stadium financial black hole.


(no need to even discuss the academic thing http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap200000 ... e-football what a ridiculous joke)

[Dinsdale]

On the attendance note -- our local radio duo (very good) are in Pasadena. They've been out mingling (which probably involves heavy drinking with fans and media), and said Duck fan representation was so-so, FSU fans were very few and far between. Said that in interviewing FSU players, most of them said "my family couldn't afford to come." They said others had one parent/relative there, because it was all they could afford.

They brought up a couple of good points -- that people of modest means (sup almost everyone) had to decide if they wanted to blow all their dough going to Pasadena or Texas. If you choose the Rose Bowl, you missed the championship game, or you spent a bunch of money to watch your team lose.

Their other point was that for both teams (and you could insert any 2 teams into the mix), that for the playoffs, there's so much money involved, that the conference or NCAA or whoever could pony up 2 tickets and airfare for 2 for each player's family.

It will kinda suck if there's very few FSU fans there -- good representation by both sides is part of what makes the bigboy bowls fun. Sure, it's a long way, but Oregon fans (at least the Oregon and Nocal-based ones, since that silly study said the Oregon fanbase actually covers the largest geographical area of any team, albeit some of the most sparsely populated parts of the country) can drive there if they want (although the drive can get pretty sketchy in winter in places). No way in hell is anyone driving from Florida to SoCal. Which is kind of the problems with the West Coast teams playing East Coast/SE teams in bowls, but I guess it's the way things need to be.

[Dinsdale]

Sad to hear. I honestly thought FSU fans would travel better. Didn't seem to affect Auburn much in 2010...

As I addressed -- it's different this year. In the BCS Era, if your team made the Big Game, that was that -- spend your pennies and get to the game. This year, it's a conundrum which game to travel to.

[Carson]

FSU won't even travel to the Sugar Bowl.

There were thousands of empty seats on their side of the Superdome in '89.