Go.............Bears?

Yeahhhh I’m pretty sure that’s the actual Leon Powe.

Because I hat that hat.

Three things:

1. I might be the real LeonPowe

2. That Korean run really cheap Cal clothing store on Telegraph (and Haste? Channing? – I know its pretty far down) used to have a red Cal hat and red Cal sweatshirt.

3. I think Cal lends itself to having a lot more “Go Bears!” experiences than other schools. We’re a pretty sizable campus and also a very spread out (nationally and globally) alumni base, however, the sorry state of our major athletics programs over the past, um, 50 years, means we don’t have a lot of bandwagon fans. When Michigan alums see other people wearing Michigan stuff, or Texas or UCLA or USC or Ohio State or Florida, chances are likely that the other person is NOT an alum. However, I think with Cal stuff, you’ve got a pretty good chance that that person attended Cal.

So that’s what DBD stands for. Daily Bear Dump?

Unfortunately, I don’t have any exotic Cal stories.

I see Cal gear all the time. It’s definitely the second most popular college gear I see on campus, besides of course Texas.
Recently, I beat up my roommate (aka a controlled wrestling match where bets were placed). If I lost…well actually there was no chance of that, but if he lost, he had to wear my yellow Cal Football shirt all school day. I forgot to mention he is a member of the Longhorn Band. He told me that during the day on campus, he got a “Go Bears!” But he had no idea what was going on so he just said “ok.”

I voted for atrocity, but I would have much rather voted for abomination.

I got a “Go Bears” at Lion’s Den near Divisadero and Sacramento, but that isn’t that interesting.

Beyond that I have received no interesting or intriguing “Go Bears”

Does that count? I don’t think it was the happy “hey you’re a Cal fan, and I’m a Cal fan, WAHOO” Go Bears that you are talking about. It was more of a “Hey, your team is not my team but we play each other often so go screw yourself” Go Bears

I got one in South India back in 2006 by some American tourists. I was visiting my grandparents after getting accepted to Berkeley so naturally I wore as many Cal clothing as I could get my hands on.

My most recent exotic ‘Go Bears’ experience was last month when I met a fellow ‘00 grad on a wine tour in Mendoza, Argentina. I also gave out a ’Go Bears’ at the Parc Guell in Barcelona. During a law school summer job in Uganda I don’t think I got any ‘Go Bears,’ but I did debate the relative merits of the UC football programs with an atypically cogent Bruin I met at Kibale Forest.

…but in the same vein, I found the following amongst the centuries of graffiti on the Roman Coliseum. Both aTm and UW are clearly visible:

When I was at Cal I bought a t-shirt at most of the away games I went to, so I have a lot of random college shirts. I wore them all to the gym when I lived in New York, and I think Cal gear was much more likely to get a reaction from people. One time someone was really, really excited to see my UDub shirt, though. No one has commented on my Southern Miss t-shirt in the four and a half years I’ve owned it.

After a major climb up in Yosemite we went to the Service Station restaurant on US 395 for dinner. I was wearing my loud as hell yellow Bear Paw Cal shirt and I got a Go Bears from a rather fetching lass. Another time was after biking over Tam.

But the coolest was in St. Louis. I was hanging with my aunt who is a docent at the Contemporary Art Museum. When I walk in this woman looks at me with my Cal hat and says I have to go upstair, that I just have to go upstairs.

She was right. Upstairs they have this video installation shot at Memorial Stadium juxtaposing a pretty disciplined workout with a lone shirtless guy coming down the concrete steps to play a drumset in the end zone. The team and the individual. It was cool.

Has anyone else seen this video? Know anything about it?

I didn’t make that decision.

or any number of various campus activists would’ve done in 90s too.