Personally, I will be there rooting for the Ducks. I would enjoy seeing our huskies play new teams. However, from past experience many people will not show up for the first game. Those who are there will watch without bias, unless it is close going into the 4th quarter. Then I believe husky fans will root full bore for Oregon. Back in 2004 we sat near the group from CALIFORNIA in hartford. The pep bad and cheerleaders were a blast along with their fans.
Cal used to have one of the coolest bands around and I suspect it's still that way. Called the Straw Hat Band, they're every bit as irreverent as their counterparts to the south, the often-and-currently suspended Stanford band.
It's been a long time since I lived in California and attended a Cal game. Purdue was visiting, with Joe Barry Carroll, and Jason Kidd was in his first of two years playing at Cal. Purdue was in their shoot-around when the Cal Straw Hat Band marched in, maybe a hundred strong. They followed one sideline, turned left at the half-court line, and then left again. Left again at the baseline and they had the Purdue players surrounded in one half of the court. All this time loudly blaring the Cal fight song. Slowly, they began squeezing in, until after a few minutes the Purdue guys were stuck in the key. The fans were all standing and clapping, and pretty soon everybody, including the Purdue team, was laughing. Great fun.
Another time at a very sparsely attended Cal volleyball match, five or six members of this band showed up. They spread themselves out, sitting one each in the far upper corners of old Harmon gym. After a while, one member would stand up and raise his arms. Ten seconds would go by, and another one, in an adjacent corner, would do the same. Finally it became clear that they were doing The Wave, with just a handful of people. This was when the Wave was almost brand new, and it was hilarious.
