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Big Game: The Stanford vs Cal Rivalry

My dad and his friends went the Stanford vs Cal game in 1982, and after seeing “The Play,” one of my dad’s friends read in the paper the next day that it was considered the greatest game of all time. Sitting next to my dad, he then closed the paper, looked at my father, and said, “I’ll never go to another football game ever again.” Thirty four years later, my dad’s friend has become a world renown physics professor and has been adamant to his word. Let’s revisit what my dad’s friend has missed over the last ten years.