When last we saw California Memorial Stadium hosting football teams and fans in 2010, it held nearly 72,000 people and was crumbling from decades of neglect. Since then, 31 of its 48 sections have been demolished and are in the process of being rebuilt.

In a previous post, I have discussed the changes in seating capacity brought on by the rebuilding, and how it will change certain aspects of the stadium itself. After the jump, this post will review the 2010 ticketing configuration, discuss changes in the 2012 ticketing configuration, and briefly summarize the losses and gains for each class of tickets.

Continue reading this post »

When I was but a young lad not quite seven years old, I attended my first football game at Cal Memorial Stadium. My memory is hazy of that day’s matchup, but I think it may have been the 1966 game vs. Michigan (a 7-17 loss to the Wolverines). As a result of the game, I was hooked on Cal football. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was also hooked on Cal Memorial Stadium. I’ve been in a few other stadiums, but none compares to Cal Memorial. Most of us here (*cough*DC Trojan*cough*) have fond memories of warm sunny days spent at Cal Memorial cheering on our Golden Bears.

During my numerous years of Cal football fandom, I have seen crowds that have filled Cal Memorial (mostly for the Big Game, it seems) and crowds that were sparse (rainy October and November games were the worst, it seems). For most of those years, attendance was announced in the 4th quarter and given in thousands: "Today’s attendance is 45,000. The University of California thanks you."

A friend and I used to play a game in which we would eyeball the crowd and guess a number, in thousands. Typically, at least one of us was within 3,000 of the announced figure.

I was also aware of Cal Memorial’s official capacity through the years as I often read them when Cal hosted the Big Game. It was during the Keith Gilbertson years that the question arose in my mind as to the accuracy of the attendance numbers and even how many people could fit in different sections. Simple observation indicated that not all sections were the same. Some were shaped like wedges while others were much closer to rectangles. Naturally, one would be led to believe that differently shaped sections had different capacities.

After the jump, I will discuss how I made my own seating capacity survey and compare the configuration in 2010 with the configuration in 2012.

Continue reading this post »

My first FanPost!  I'm so giddy!

In the 8.2.2011 Last Minute DBD, Kodiak said he had been keeping a list of restaurants mentioned by CGBers.  And then he listed all (most? some?) of the restaurants he's gathered from CGBers.  This made me think that a map should be created listing all of these restaurants and also allowing CGBers to edit said list/map.

After the jump is the invitation for Kodiaks' Restaurant List on Google Maps.

Continue reading this post »