[Mick]

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Thanks for your reply Snorlax  :)
Prior to 2017, I was only a casual observer of Stanford football. The NFL has been my focus, the 49ers for most of my life (until that team departed SF). For the past 5 seasons I was a Raiders season ticket holder, but did not renew. When the NFL owners voted to approve a Raiders move to Las Vegas I telephoned Stanford and became a Cardinal season ticket holder. Now here I am , ready to consistently watch Stanford football and get familiar with the team's player roster.
Phillips came to Stanford as a DE but added height and weight so he now plays DT ?
I agree that watching defensive secondary play can be exciting. From watching the NFL I am accustomed to seeing corners and safeties only prove effective when their DL is able to mount a strong pass rush. That said, exceptional talent does reveal itself. One of my lasting memories of  the Raiders play is watching an aged Charles Woodson perform very well.

Oh man do I LOVE this post.  I've pined for more NFL fans to embrace college football in the Bay Area for years.  Have always been a Niners fan since a kid.[/quote]

I remember a decade or two back the Mercury ran an article on how the attendance at Niner games and Stanford games seemed to be the inverse of one another.  When the Niners were terrible, Walsh was coaching Stanford and people would go to Stanford games.

And remember, I saw the Niners when they won 4 Super Bowls over 9 seasons.  Though I will say no game could ever top the 1981 NFC Championship game experience. 

My single best football memory.  I was a sophomore at SCU, there were about forty of us in the dorm lounge surrounding one large television. Remember, Dallas was ahead most of the game, and there were two obnoxious Dallas fans who were jumping up and down and hollering and high-fiving each other most of the game...until The Catch.  Then, the other thirty-eight of us started jumping up and down, sat through the last, tense, two-and-a-half minutes while the Cowboys mounted a comeback until those two Dallas fans slunk out of the room .

I found out later that they were friendly with Doug Cosbie who had graduated from SCU and played for Dallas.  He caught the TD pass that put the Cowboys ahead 27-21 and good for him.

As a side note, it almost didn't matter how you watched or listened to that game.  Vin Scully and Hank Stram did color and play by play for CBS, (John Madden and Pat Summerall did the Super Bowl), Jack Buck called it for CBS Radio (the only Buck I like), Don Klein did KCBS and Verne Lundquist did the KLRB announcing.

[Mick]

[quote author=SF_Cardinal_Fan link=topic=17131.msg196635#msg196635 date=1502024186]
Thanks for your reply Snorlax  :)
Prior to 2017, I was only a casual observer of Stanford football. The NFL has been my focus, the 49ers for most of my life (until that team departed SF). For the past 5 seasons I was a Raiders season ticket holder, but did not renew. When the NFL owners voted to approve a Raiders move to Las Vegas I telephoned Stanford and became a Cardinal season ticket holder. Now here I am , ready to consistently watch Stanford football and get familiar with the team's player roster.
Phillips came to Stanford as a DE but added height and weight so he now plays DT ?
I agree that watching defensive secondary play can be exciting. From watching the NFL I am accustomed to seeing corners and safeties only prove effective when their DL is able to mount a strong pass rush. That said, exceptional talent does reveal itself. One of my lasting memories of  the Raiders play is watching an aged Charles Woodson perform very well.

Oh man do I LOVE this post.  I've pined for more NFL fans to embrace college football in the Bay Area for years.  Have always been a Niners fan since a kid.[/quote]

I remember a decade or two back the Mercury ran an article on how the attendance at Niner games and Stanford games seemed to be the inverse of one another.  When the Niners were terrible, Walsh was coaching Stanford and people would go to Stanford games.

And remember, I saw the Niners when they won 4 Super Bowls over 9 seasons.  Though I will say no game could ever top the 1981 NFC Championship game experience. 

My single best football memory.  I was a sophomore at SCU, there were about forty of us in the dorm lounge surrounding one large television. Remember, Dallas was ahead most of the game, and there were two obnoxious Dallas fans who were jumping up and down and hollering and high-fiving each other most of the game...until The Catch.  Then, the other thirty-eight of us started jumping up and down, sat through the last, tense, two-and-a-half minutes while the Cowboys mounted a comeback until those two Dallas fans slunk out of the room .

I found out later that they were friendly with Doug Cosbie who had graduated from SCU and played for Dallas.  He caught the TD pass that put the Cowboys ahead 27-21 and good for him.

As a side note, it almost didn't matter how you watched or listened to that game.  Vin Scully and Hank Stram did color and play by play for CBS, (John Madden and Pat Summerall did the Super Bowl), Jack Buck called it for CBS Radio (the only Buck I like), Don Klein did KCBS and Verne Lundquist did the KLRB announcing.