Just got back. Hell of a game! Did some tailgaiting with @arndtjc for a bit, but otherwise just chilled with the family at our tailgate until game time. The stadium was rockin' pretty good! It wasn't 2005 USC rocking, but it was pretty good nevertheless. It was loud from start to finish, no lulls while Stanford was on defense.
The university is doing a great job using the big screen to amp the crowd up. Just about every time the Cardinal had the ball they'd play a banner at least once during a drive that said "Stanford wants you to be quiet!" That got the crowd pumped. There were some funny bits too. At one point they started playing the Friends theme song, then they showed Alize Mack /w his name displayed in the Friends theme font. Next came Cole Kmet, same way, followed by Nic Weishar, Daelin Hayes, Julian Okwara, and Khalid Kareem. At the end it said "Ends" to cap off the Friends theme. The crowd got a good kick out of that. Another big pop came at halftime when they honored the Women's National Championship team by playing We Are the Champions and having the band re-enact the winning shot:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@richarddeitsch</a> RT <a href="https://twitter.com/MsMiyayo305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MsMiyayo305</a>: Yo. ND band is on some next level ish. They just recreated the womens national championship game winning shot... on the field... thats dope <a href="https://t.co/lsXbB5MMeK">pic.twitter.com/lsXbB5MMeK</a></p>— Tim Frommer (@tfrommer) <a href="https://twitter.com/tfrommer/status/1046229883259486210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Overall it was a hell of a game, lot of damn fun. I don't have much to say about the play of the team other than it was one of the most complete games I've seen them play against a quality opponent in that stadium. Book has ice water in his veins, it was great seeing Dexter get unleashed, and Tillery was an absolute monster. I'm so happy.