California Golden Bears Football

Cal v. WSU 10.24.09 Photo Essay III

By Twist NHook Oct 27, 2009, 7:30pm PDT

For this game we have photos from Monica's Dad Photostream and also from a reader who goes by the handle Matt Chan. Thanks to both of them for great photos.

I had written much of this out already and then it crashed and was lost. This is supposed to be auto-saved, but for some insane reason it did not auto save. So, I'll try to recreate it, but I'm not pleased to have to do this again and the writing might suffer. More so than normal.

This Child on Oski action cannot be legal in California:

Riley to Ross was still viable in the second half:

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It led to this:

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And while we were scoring TDs, they were doing a lot of this:

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And this:

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Don't get hurt, Kevin!

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Here is a cool Vereen run:

Vereen Run (via Monica's Dad)

Vereen scored a TD in the 2nd half. Matt Chan decided to take him for a test spin:

via Matt Chan

Soon, Oski Johnson was getting in on the act:

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And we got to see some of Carp's mancrush:

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Oski Johnson prepares to get his Mike Tepper on:

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Notice 98:

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Whoops for that guy:

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SydGOD spent large parts of the second half on the stationary bike:

I had a solid joke here about how hot it was and how many people left, but I soldered on even though I suffer from the debilitating disease, rickets. But it was lost. Now, you'll never get to experience the wide range of all my rickets-related humor. Your loss, I guess. But, unlike my ricketed body, many others left the game early due to the brutal heat: