October 09, 2006
Quack Back (Cal 45, Oregon 24)
It’s so much easier to write these things when you’re wringing your hands in misery at the terrible way Cal gave away the game. What can I say about a game like this? Cal dominated every phase of the game. They scored in the 40s for a fifth straight week. They stifled an Oregon team with a remarkably high-powered offense. They were never, ever not in control of this game.
Longshore’s performance reminded me of the heyday of Aaron Rodgers. He was remarkably accurate, floating rainbows as well as zipping in quick passes when they needed. The receivers are catching passes and running crazy. DeSean Jackson’s punt runback, if you haven’t seen it yet, was a thing to behold — he started right, turned left, basically went halfway across the field, then turned back right and ran it all the way back. Crazy, Reggie Bush-style stuff.
The yellow jerseys? Sorry, I can’t endorse them. They look like Oregon’s crazy yellow uniforms in two ways: they’re yellow and they’re ugly. Go back to the blue, kids. Bananas are good, but blue is better.
By the way, no TV for Cal-Washington State. Yeah, who needs to put a Top Ten team on TV?
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Is there any pay-per-view or anything for saturday's game? I can't stand not watching this team.
And the yellow jerseys grew on me. I like the idea of a QB looking up and seeing gold all around him as he panicks and throws an INT or just gets the "deer in the headlights" look as he falls to the ground. I agree they don't look the best, but I wonder if they give us a slight advantage.
One thing that really stuck out from this game was that Oregon had the worst sportsmanship I've seen from a football team in a long time (apart from maybe big game). I really hope they just aren't used to losing that badly and they don't act like that every week.
No TV... what a disgrace. And DeSean for Heisman: nope, no pay-per-view either.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-ucla-olson&prov=ap&type=lgns
Ben Olson is out for UCLA 4-6 weeks
(including at Cal 11/4)
this blows, no TV! what the hell are we supposed to do? fly to washington? no thanks...
got my radio ready!
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