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As you may or may not have heard, someone has apologized to you recently. No, it isn’t that girl who hit you with her backpack in the slap-dash rush out of Wheeler on Friday afternoon. It isn’t even the guy who laughed uproariously at inappropriate moments while you were trying to watch a movie. No, it was Sandy Barbour, Berkeley’s Director of Athletics.
Before you get excited, she isn’t apologizing for a soul-crushing Homecoming. She’s actually apologizing for a more literal crushing—that of your body against a complete stranger’s at Memorial Stadium. The letter of apology, addressed rather ambiguously to “Cal Football Fans,” laments the lack of crowd control at this past Saturday’s game.
In particular, Ms. Barbour states:
“An immediate review after the game found that almost half the crowd entered the stadium through just two gates – Gates 1 and 2 – near the north side of the stadium. The resulting bottleneck caused lines to back up, especially on the concourse level.”
In other words, there was an honest-to-God clusterf*ck.
But they’ll do better next time. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves as we clutch our Cal foam finger forlornly and rock back and forth, wailing softly. Everything will be better next time.
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Cal Athletics to Examine Crowd Control [Cal Bears]
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Oct 6, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Please fix the bathrooms for the ladies and if there is any money left over, get pumps for the men’s room at the stadium. The experience was discusting.
Thank God there wasn’t an earthquake or an emergency evacuation. People would have been trampled…
Move the games until the work is done for safety sake…
Oct 13, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Your mom’s butt is big.
Oct 14, 2009 at 2:47 pm
If my mom had lived, you wouldn’t say that…
Oct 6, 2009 at 5:57 am
well atleast they got to see the game mmm