The City of Angels: A Bruin Town

by Nestor on Jul 3, 2007 4:17 PM PDT in Events

As we all head out to the freeways, subways, airports or wherever we are heading to enjoy the Holiday (which is already off to a ROCKING START!!!!) just keep this in mind:

The 2006-07 season also marked the first time that UCLA swept USC in football, men's basketball and baseball. USC last accomplished the feat in 1940-41.

Remember that fact if you get stuck in the free way.

Picture this (or check it out in your iPhone) if you are standing in some long line at the airport:

Or visualize this if some a&&clown (with a TrOJan license plate) cut you off on the 405:

That's right.

We own this town even with Dorrell in charge of our football program.

Oh did I mention the best college basketball coach in America also reigns in Westwood?

Its good to bleed blue and gold.

GO BRUINS.

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GOD DAMN RIGHT!!!!!!

It feels SOOOOOO GOOD to be a Bruin!!!!!

F*ck SC!!!!

Go BRUINS!!!!!!!

by godblesstyus95 on Jul 3, 2007 4:29 PM PDT reply actions

I am ecstatic

Ben Howland... feel free to file a restraining order. I love you.

JRUE!! I want to make T-shirts:

"My favorite Holiday is JRUE!"
"Jrue-ly 3rd, Bruin Holiday"
"Christmas and
Halloween and
Thanksgiving and
JRUE"
"How JRUE doin?"
(If K-Love comes back to try for Back-to-Back titles)
"UCLA fans LOVE our HOLIDAY"

They're all cheesy, I know. You guys wanna help me out?

Duke and North Carolina called: They want Steve Lavin back. GO BRUINS!!

by Allofmybros on Jul 3, 2007 6:04 PM PDT reply actions

Great stuff

Thanks again to Nestor for such an amazing community for us all.

And a Happy 4th of July to everyone!

It's great to be a Bruin.

by Barnes2JJ on Jul 3, 2007 6:17 PM PDT reply actions

I never get tired of watching the interception...

and, of course, the look on pc's mug.

by UCngLA on Jul 3, 2007 6:55 PM PDT reply actions

saw mike garrett today

Really. He was at my barber shop. (crenshaw and exposition) with i hope his grandkids (i hope he doesn't have a 2 year old and a four year old)

i was gonna say something, but i chickened out. Just told him i went to the UCLA/USC game at the Galen center and it was a nice place to watch a game. He said thanks.

He is a bad tipper, by the way.

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Jul 3, 2007 8:35 PM PDT reply actions

Burger Continental

He used to hang out at the Burger Continental in Pasadena (along with John Robinson.)

I will never forget his great day against the Bruins in '65 - he had 210 yards, but oh yeah, zero TD's. That was the 20-16 game, and still my favorite.

by Fox 71 on Jul 3, 2007 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Mmmm.....Burger C.

I loved Burger Continental! Here in Denver, no Burger C, no In-n-Out. I don't know how we live...

greg in denver

by gbruin on Jul 3, 2007 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions

1965

And another couple of items to remember Fox71..
Garrett must have fumbled down close several times so he didn't get in.
On the onside kick, as Jim Murray wrote in the LAT (a good paper then), everyone in the coliseum knew it would be an onside kick except for the SC front line, and they turned upfield just like the script called for. The rest was history.
Bill

BillSouthBay

by Mensgym on Jul 4, 2007 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions

As I recall

a perfect one-bouncer to Dallas Grider.

by Fox 71 on Jul 4, 2007 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow..

Every time i watch those videos it gives me the chills. Especially seeing myself in the football video (around 245 and 117) and not remembering one thing in the craziness that was the end of the best game i have ever seen in person.

Speaking of Burger C, it is absolutely amazing. Harry, the owner, is such i nice guy. I kind of remember seeing a USC radio talk show there when i was younger (which wasn't that long ago) and meeting Tommy Lasorda.

by lil eg not cs on Jul 3, 2007 10:38 PM PDT reply actions

LAT update

I considered making this a diary, but it's more of a whine and a rant, so I'll bury it here.

I was on such a high yesterday with the Holiday news, and couldn't wait to open my LAT this morning to read more about it.

What did I get?

I went through all six (yes, six) pages of the sports section and could not find one mention of the Jrue commitment. I thought, what? How could this be? How could they not cover this?

So, I went through the paper again. And there it was: On Page 2, in the lower left bottom corner, is a small, maybe 2 inch by 1 1/2 inch, picture of Jrue. The "article" below the picture is one sentence long. I'm not sure if I can quote the entire sentence used--because that would be reproducing the whole article--but it calls Jrue a "jewel" and said that UCLA could have the No. 1 recruiting class. All true.

This "article" is buried with a couple of other items in a section of the fishwrap called "On latimes.com."

Well, excuse me, but f*ck that. I buy the hard copy of the paper to read stories in the hard copy. If I wanted to read the Times online, I damn know where to find it.

One question: Does anyone doubt that if Jrue committed to SuC, instead of to the good guys, that this story would have been the top story on the first page of the sports section? In the hard copy of the rag?

Sigh.

by Barnes2JJ on Jul 4, 2007 9:01 AM PDT reply actions

Putting something up

Give me a few mins (I was going to stay away from my laptop today but couldn't resist!).

by Nestor on Jul 4, 2007 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm incensed

about this. I'll probably write a letter to the Sports Editor, too.

The last time I wrote an editor to the Sports Editor was about the LAT's failure to reproduce that lovely "White Nation" picture those happy-go-lucky SuC football players had so much fun with.

My letter wasn't printed but the LAT's Sports Editor emailed me to say that they "couldn't find" the picture in time to use it with the article. Um, yeah, it was really hard to find. So, the 1.1 million people who read the LAT daily never got to see that picture.

If that picture was published in the mainstream media, that story would have received a hell of a lot more attention than it did.

Thanks for the effort, fishwrap.

by Barnes2JJ on Jul 4, 2007 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions

What is revealing

that just 3 days ago they used 2 writers to concoct up a bullsh1t story putting UCLA and SuC hoops on the same level saying how both programs would be dreading possible "one and done" seasons of Love and Mayo.

The TrOJan Times don't even hide it any more - just like Fox News.

by Nestor on Jul 4, 2007 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions