Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 03, 2014

Stephan Lately? I thought his name was Pastis.:Any relation to Johnny Come Lately?

my team choked in the rose bowl…

They can at least take comfort in the fact that their arch rival lost in the Rose Bowl.

The UC Santa Cruz Slugs don’t even have a football team! But they’re still the best partiers.

Sack it to me.

Toon Boy cares.

I feel the same way. My alma mater finished with worst record in years after winning two national championships within the last 7 years. I can’t even type their name, G8rs. :-(

nick saban is not bear bryant.

1-11? Holy Cal!

Wait. I thought you had to be smart to go to UC Berkeley.

This year Vanderbilt beat Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. Not our typical year.

Being blind, I’ve sure heard a lot of games and things!

Actually, Rat would say that the bag on Stephan’s head is an improvement!

“Your football team beat our football team but you will eventually work for us”- Old Northwestern sign

My team, Michigan State, cleaned Stanford’s clock in the Rose Bowl.

He looks to be more in a torture chamber — maybe it’s a self imposed one…

@legaleagle48—Have to go with Rat on that one!!

Only teasing, Steph! Happy MMXIV!!

Cheer up Steph…Surely the worm will turn someday. You could always take heart in the failures of Cal’s rivals – when they have them.

Don’t feel too bad Stephan, all Dolphin’s fans are joining you

Well, my first year in college, my team went 0-11; this year they’re going for their 3rd National Championship. Not bad for a school that used to be the “girls school” in Florida.

So, I know how Pastis feels…I feel your pain.

how embarrassing for Portland State

Bring back Tedford!

How ’bout that… The Unknown Cartoonist!

We have a Cal alum in our household. That is the appropriate response.

Go Bears!

Worse, the graduation rate for Cal’s football and basketball players is precisely last among the 72 major intercollegiate programs. Folks used to blame neighboring Stanford’s poor athletic prowess on its high academic standards. Cal can’t even use that excuse. Shame on the Golden Bears.

If his name is Stephan Pastis then yes.

xxx

We all should know the CAL football mantra by now: “There’s always next year!” Plus Football is great but an A-class University is greater!

He should be one of us Cowboy fans.We would like to put the paper bag over Jerry.

Go Bears! BTW – Tedford is the new Offensive Coordinator at Tampa Bay. Always liked the guy. Glad he landed well.

Uh, given college sports are as bad as professional sports when it comes to rivalries, Goat’s comment is rather of a poor nature concerning grown adults. Actually, high school sports can be as bad when it comes to rivalries and adults. I have an uncle in his ‘60s or early 70’s now. Every Thanksgiving we’d go to his place and he’d be listening to the game of the local high school rivalry. Very big deal, he and a friend of his would root for their team and then call each other up on the phone in the middle of the game and after to rub it in their face over what was going on in the game and when the game was over. And he was in his 50s and 60s when this was happening. I’ve heard they still do it.

and these losses after they cut down a beautiful grove of oak trees to put in a brand new stadium! Karma!

I STILL wonder why so many guys care about silly sporting events. Fortunately I find many who prefer the same activities as I.

Sad. Just…Sad.

I’m from Detroit. Take it from me, Stephen. You can be grateful that you are not a Lions fan!

Just to note that in most of the rest of the world, no-one much cares or even knows how their own college sports teams are doing, even when they’re at college, let alone 30 years later…

If Stephan’s fashion+sports statement catches on, we may run out of plain brown paper bags….