Comments on: Football: Big Game set for noon kickoff on Oct. 20

By: 707 Bear

707 Bear — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:40:45 +0000

Mr. Scott: Please tell Our Lady of South Bend that the last two weeks of the year are set aside for traditional rivalries. SC and Stanford would be happy to play you any other time.

Now that Our Lady of Our Own TV Contract must commit to 5 ACC games, maybe we can dump the gold domers and return sanity to the Pac 12 schedule.

Go Bears!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:08:22 +0000

The saddest lost tradition – the mega sling shots where both sides would target the bands. I think it ended in 1992 (same year Mark Bingham destroyed the Tree in one of the great mascot massacres of all time).

By: wehofx

wehofx — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:33:04 +0000

LOL $$$

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:16:33 +0000

Rob bear if i ever get married im going to ask you to come give the toast and end it with your extreme prejudice line.

By: rob bear

rob bear — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:48:39 +0000

With EXTREME PREJUDICE BEARS! EXTREME PREJUDICE! I DON’T CARE IF IT IS AT NOON, MIDNIGHT, WHATEVER! WE WILL BE THERE AND WE WILL SUPPORT. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

By: Joshiemac

Joshiemac — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:38:33 +0000

As a father of 4-year old twins, I’m happy the game is at 12 and not at 7 or 7:30. If I’m going by myself I love those night games but with young kids it gets a bit late with those 7pm starts.

In any case, college football was made to be played on autumn afternoons. I’m looking forward to what will hopefully be a great day for the Bears!

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:32:47 +0000

As a non alum who thinks the Big Game every year is against hated USC, I love the fact the game will have some national exposure and also have a ton of meaning if Cal can get past WSU this Saturday. And if Cal can beat Stanford, the Bears are going to a bowl game, no doubt in my mind.

Cal is playing the first vulnerable Stanford team since Luck was a redshirt freshman in 2009. It’s going to be electric, if…….this Saturday night.

By: BlueNGold

BlueNGold — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:38:21 +0000

Oh yeah- I hope there is a major celebration of The Play at the BG this year. Nothing like that to shut the furds TF up.

I was there in ’82 and it was one of the most electric large crowd experiences of my life. Especially all the partying that spilled out of CMS onto the streets of Berkeley.

By: BlueNGold

BlueNGold — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:29:59 +0000

The Big Game traditions have been eroding for awhile anyway. It started when the furds built LegoLand stadium and decided to bsck out of the traditional seat allocation where each school got half the tickets regardless of which one was the home team. That was a major blow to the game atmosphere that the BG was known for.

I don’t mind the noon start time as much as moving the date up. Not being able to play on rivalry weekend kinda sucks. But that tradition has been eroded a bit as well.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:20:07 +0000

Time brings some changes.

This change brings Cal football TON$ of money. Worth the sacrifice once every 5 years, great time on the schedule for Cal coming off the UCLA win, great time slot for TV and on a major network. Lots to be thankful for. A worthy tradeoff to me.

Many smaller schools in lesser conferences (hello San Jose State) would love to have this problem with all the related benefits, including almost 60,000 people showing up in a gorgeous remodeled stadium to watch a 1-4 team. Things could be way worse than the occasional re-located Big Game.

Will be worth it for a win over the weenies. If a loss- who cares.