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And Cal Bear fans (the entire UC Berkeley system, staff, Faculty, students, groundskeepers, janitors and maintenance people don’t really give a shit either. We all love beating them. Especially if it pisses them off.
They have a legendary tailgate scene in Oxford, and the way I heard it, Mississippi fans invited Cal fans over to their tailgate tents before the game.
My guess is that a college-aged young male met alcohol, and stupid comments resulted.
Nevertheless, the Spartacist Bear Brigade defeated the Running Reactionary Forces of Mississippi. No doubt the Bears were greeted warmly by their comrades at the Collective back in Berkeley.
Having nothing to do with communism, I'd like to share the heretical thought that CTE sucks (although I do enjoy my football, dammit)... this is a completely unrelated story of the most legendary Golden Bear of all time, Joe Kapp...
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He also shared concerns about his grandson, Frank, who is heading into his second season in Berkeley as a third-generation Kapp to take the field for Cal.
“Don’t let your son be a football player,” Joe said, “and here I am letting my grandson play.”
The only quarterback to play in the Rose Bowl, Super Bowl and Canada’s Grey Cup is another statistic in the mushrooming debate about head trauma and the safety of football.
The federal Centers for Disease Control reports NFL players are four times more likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s than the general population.