Posted on 01/03/2006 8:36:04 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Edited on 01/04/2006 2:22:49 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
On January 4, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. (PST) the Rose Bowl Game will host the BCS National Championship, between USC and Texas once again showcasing the best of collegiate football in "The Granddaddy of Them All."® The Rose Bowl will be broadcast exclusively on ABC and on ESPN radio.
"USC came much closer to losing that game than LSU"
You sir, are a clown, as evidenced by the above-referenced post, and so many others you soiled this thread with.
How cute! Where in Houston is that? I have 3 brothers living in the Houston area.
That was one GREAT game!
My hearty congratulations to all!
>if . . . if . . . if . . .<
Man, are we still on that? I see now where USC gets its name
University of Spoiled Children
I *think* they said it's at the Southwest Freeway and Edloe. I know it's on Edloe, which is near Buffalo Speedway and is in Greenway Plaza.
Thanks Rte66, my brothers may know about it.
I stole your graphic 'for the future' dixiechick, lol.
Still calling people names huh? It's just football you know.
If you can't control your emotions after your team loses then maybe it it time to pick another form of entertainment.
I get such a laugh out of the glory hunters and fanboys after their team loses. Have some pride in yourself son. Associating yourself with a winning team doesn't make you a "winner" son, you have to do that yourself.
Thanks for the Minuteman pic. I'm descended from a Minuteman from Danvers, who spent 4-19-1775 at Arlington, then served with Washington for most of the rest of the Revolutionary War. I see Danvers had a band in the Rose Bowl Parade. They looked and sounded awesome.
There was bedlam at the University Co-Op trying to buy national championship t-shirts and caps. They had saleswoman standing on tables and shouting shirt sizes to the mob when each new load came off the truck. People would raise their hands and the women would fling a shirt at them (sort of like Vince does). News crews were there too.
I got an official t-shirt like the ones the players wore last night after the game and decided I should not wait around long enough to get one that had the final score on it. Now that I have something to show off at the office, I'll take my time with the extra merchandizing.
BTW, expect ABC to come out with a DVD game replay in about four weeks. They did this with last year's Rose Bowl and it sold quite well.
Go back and read some of your ridiculous posts throughout this thread and then re-read what you just wrote. As I said before, you are a clown.
Indeed! Like the post you sent me when USC scored 70 points on poor Arkansas...
He should also learn from Leinart that things don't always turn out so well upon your return. Leinart looked very shaky in the first half, didn't get the three-peat, didn't go out on a high note. He also probably dropped from being viewed as the best college player to possibly third or fourth.
Thanks for sharing those stories. It was doubtless one of the greatest college football games in history. I still can't belueve the Longhorns are #1.
More Partying, More Arrests at Rose Bowl
Thirty-six people are held. The rise is blamed on extra time available for tailgate gatherings because the parade was not on game day.
January 6, 2006
Prolonged tailgate partying at the Rose Bowl game led to a higher number of arrests and medical calls than in past years, Pasadena authorities said Thursday.
More than 200 paramedic requests were logged before or during Wednesday's game. Police made 36 arrests, primarily for public drunkenness.
"Typically we have a parade and then the game," said Lisa Derderian, spokeswoman for the Pasadena Fire Department, referring to the traditional New Year's Day pairing of the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl. This time, because the parade had been held two days before the game, "people were out there having the tailgate parties for hours," she said.
The busy scene was further enlivened by a postgame emergency helicopter landing near the 50-yard line while thousands of fans were still in the parking lot after the Texas Longhorns' 41-38 victory over the USC Trojans. The KTTV-TV Channel 11 helicopter touched down safely after a cockpit warning light came on.
Derderian did not have figures from previous years but said the number of emergency medical calls was "much higher than if we were to have the parade and the game on the same day."
The Police Department reported that 32 men and four women were taken into custody on suspicion of misdemeanor offenses. Seventeen of the arrests involved public intoxication and nine concerned ticket scalping.
Only 10 arrests were made at last year's game, department spokeswoman Ronnie Nanning said. For about the last 15 years there has been a downward trend in game-related arrests, she added, but "this year's game was different." About 94,000 people attended.
"Considering the number of people in attendance, the number of arrests was very manageable," Cmdr. Chris Vicino said in a statement released by the Police Department.
The Rose Parade, normally held New Year's Day, took place Monday because of a never-on-Sunday rule from the horse-and-buggy days, when officials feared that the event would disrupt church services. Because the Rose Bowl was this season's national championship game, it was the final bowl contest on the schedule and was played two days after most of the traditional New Year's Day games.
Paradegoers who stream into the Rose Bowl for the football game are usually preoccupied with getting to their seats and have little time to party in the parking lot, Derderian said.
"These people had a full day to party and celebrate," Nanning added.
Thirty-eight people were taken to local hospitals. Several had injuries from assaults stemming from alcohol consumption, while others suffered dehydration, chest pains or other maladies requiring a trip to the emergency room.
Many of the 200-plus calls to paramedics were from people needing blood-pressure checks, Band-Aids or minor medication, Derderian said.
With the volume of calls higher than expected, the Fire Department had to summon four extra ambulances to buttress the six initially stationed at the Rose Bowl.
At 10:30 p.m., about an hour after the game ended, the Channel 11 helicopter radioed that a warning light had come on and that the pilot needed to make an emergency landing.
"There was a report of smoke in the cockpit," Derderian said.
The helicopter landed without incident in the middle of the field with about 30 firefighters standing by. The smoke report turned out to be a false alarm, but officials said many people could have been endangered if the problem had been real and had caused the pilot to lose control.
"There were literally thousands of people still leaving the parking lot after the game," Derderian said. A preliminary report indicated that a failed sensor caused the emergency, she said. The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating.
After the game, authorities spent hours checking popular hangouts in nearby Old Pasadena to make sure they did not exceed the legal number of patrons set by fire codes.
"We had many calls of overcrowding at nightspots," Derderian said. "In some locations we had to return several times to count heads, and people had to be told to line up in the street."
Well, not exactly. WR Jarrett is a sophmore. They're losing one (1) starter from their O-line. SC doesn't rebuild, they just reload.
On my way into work yesterday, I saw the buses carrying the players from the Beverly Hills Hilton ceremony. I honked, waved & gave the horns sign to a few of the buses....there were 5 or 6 at least. I guess they were off to the airport....not sure if they go home or to DC to meet Bush.
I responded in that way after reading some that crap on 12th man.com. My Dad's an Aggie so, I probably shouldn't talk that way. Mack Brown said he thought most of Texas was rooting for the Horns but, said there might be a few detractors. Obviously, those idiots on that web site were some of them. Green with Envy!
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