The people behind us were recent grads and they were very loud and obnoxious, but aside from that it was an overall awesome experience. Since I sit right next to the visitor’s section, I could see that they were being treated very well, with the exception of a “look at the scoreboard!” or somesuch when they cheered a good play by their team. You see, I have definitely noticed that Cal fans have been building a reputation as the most obnoxious fans of the Pac-10 and I have been seeing it a lot myself. I was infuriated at Big Game last year when they were taunting Stanford people (women, children, elderly) as they walked in front of our section to get to another part of the stadium. Here we were at someone else’s stadium, and we were acting like buffoons, at “non-combatants,” so to speak. The “take off that red shirt” business is classless, as well. Anyway, Minnesota people are the salt of the earth and I was just praying that we would show them the level of courtesy that was apparently shown to us in Tennessee. For the most part, it seemed to me things were good. I actually will be happy about the Tennessee game if it served to turn many of the obnoxious “bandwagon” fans off of Cal football.

Hopefully I’ll see you next week against Portland State. Where do you sit?