ESPN has a columnon enthusiastic celebrations involving goal posts at college football game. First he indulges in the common myth that 'Cal = lack of fan base.'

Of all the places in which a field was charged, goal posts were torn down and fans imperiled, the strangest might have been Berkeley, Calif.

Bleah. If you want a weak fan base, check out that junior college down the peninsula. He also takes a slap at one of our distinguished ASUC Senators.

Nobody was hurt. In fact, the one yahoo who rode the north goal posts like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb down to Moscow in "Dr. Strangelove" (and who seemed to be having an unusually good time in that position, we might add) dismounted after a few minutes and was neither arrested, pepper-sprayed or even cursed.

But go back to Ratto's column on Berdahl's strangely forgotten remark that Cal Athletics should be more like Stanfurd's:

This kind of cheap justification is simply wrong. We want fury. We want Cal fans taking to the streets. In fact, we want them to take the streets of Palo Alto, emptying the Starbucks of frappucinos and the Sharper Images of plutonium-powered Palm Pilots. We want them surrounding Berdahl's office and demanding his resignation, lobotomy and a stern talking-to after that....

We want what we would get in Tallahassee or Starkville, College Station or Columbus, Westwood or Los Angeles ... for that matter, we want what we would get in Bosnia or Herzegovina.

When is rioting okay? Ray Ratto has no easy answers.

Incidentally, Senator Leybovich was one of those who charged the field, so he might be the mysterious 'Second Senator' being investigated by SJA.

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