Clearly, The Fanbase Is Agitated
Just got home from the game, and I decided to check on the blog. I wasn’t planning on writing anything, I just wanted to see if anything was up; you know, new posts by my fellow bloggers, or perhaps some new comments, or just see how many hits we were getting (Saturdays are usually pretty low, hit-wise, because many of you are at the game and don’t have time to waste at work).
Anyway, in the last hour of the game and the hour after it was over, we got hits from the following search engine queries:
"nate longshore sucks"
"california golden blogs"
"longshore sucks"
"cal longshore sucks"
"nate longshore sucks"
"2008 cal football schedule"
"i hate nate longshore"
"nate longshore sucks"
"nate longshore sucks"
"longshore sucks!"
"what is wrong with nate longshore"
I see a pattern developing. Can you spot it?
So, that’s 9 votes for Longshore sucks, 1 vote for ‘what’s the schedule like for next year?’ because this year can’t be over soon enough, and 1 vote for ‘I really like those fellows over at the California Golden Blogs, but I just can’t seem to remember their web address.’ Say it with me now:
‘Goldenblogs dot blogsome dot com’
See…easy! Anyway, I don’t know whether Nate Longshore is the reason the Bears lost tonight; HydroTech would be the guy to ask about that. I know that Longshore wasn’t the only one making mistakes out there, and that you can’t ever blame a loss in football on just one guy, but neither of those facts would contradict a claim of ‘longshore sucks’.
More interesting to me is what y’all are actually searching for. Clearly, you’ve already decided that Nate Longshore sucks; after all, you just saw all the evidence you need on your TV. Are you just looking for confirmation of what you already know? Are you looking for a clear, concise argument expressing what you’re unable to put into words? Or are you just looking for examples of his suckiness so you can compose an angry email to Tedford demanding that Kevin Riley be named the starting quarterback?
Whatever the motives, it’s clear that Cal’s fanbase is really getting restless with the team’s play, and when that happens, the quarterback is often the easiest scapegoat. One has to wonder, ‘How long will it be before people start blaming the head coach?’
