Homecoming football game
After the Roundtable, we had lunch then went to the Stanford v Arizona football game. Turnout (as you can see in the pictures above) was pretty embarrassing for our homecoming game, but hey, it’s Stanford. The game was great — Stanford drove down the field and scored the go-ahead TD with 25 seconds left and hung on to win. I went with Joey, Charles, and Nader and ended up spotting a bunch of other friends at the game too.
Compared to an NC State game experience, Stanford’s student section is uh…different. First, many fans (and even the cheerleaders, at times) don’t understand you aren’t supposed to be loudly cheering while your team is on offense about to snap the ball. Near the end, some idiot with a microphone kept trying to start cheers as our team was breaking from their huddle. At one point, enough students shouted back to quiet down at the cheerleaders/idiot guy that they stayed quiet. On the flip side, during defense with Arizona in front of the student section, the megaphone cheerleader guy actually yelled “Come on Stanford this is a football game! Not a midterm! Make some noise!” Another thing - you know how we used to jingle our keys to mock the ‘fans’ who leave the game before its over? Well over here, you jingle your keys when Stanford is about to placekick. I was talking to a guy from UTexas @ Austin and he was equally bewildered. The drum major for the marching band was going with a Dr. Octopus theme, and the halftime show consisted of them making fun of Arizona and John McCain — petrified wood, the grand canyon = “meh”, and the MLK Jr. holiday.
Now I’m off to spend the rest of the weekend doing work.