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Were Fans More Intense, Part III

I’ve run pictures of USC fans/rallies from the 1950’s to show how much more intense it seemed fans were in those days.

Perhaps this is even harder proof: A UCLA parade/rally on Westwood Blvd. in 1951, two days after the Bruins upset No. 11-ranked USC, 21-7. What would it take to get that reaction in Westwood today?

By the way, that is UCLA coach Red Sanders standing in the jeep with the dark jacket and grey hair.

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      1. Just to be clear, gotroy22(aka fake gabby) needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Fake Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Fake Gabby

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      2. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Cowardly Gabby, when are you going to box Plow Horse you preachy lib fake windbag?

        Fake Gabby is afraid of Plow Horse!

        It’s so pitiful that this coward won’t hide her face in shame and never come back here.

        Plow Horse
        JUNE 23, 2023 AT 3:24 AM
        Chickensh*t Gabby: When you insult my wife and mother you challenge me. Say to my face the garbage you say on this board Mr. keyboard tough guy. If you think I am an old man who you can beat up, let’s set a date at the Pasadena boxing gym. C’mon be a man.

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young's avatar Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        The Three faces of Cowardly Gabby (tebowobama, Fake Gabby and Frank Young) movie’

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      2. I know you meant that as an insult, Tebow. But that one is bad jam!!

        I love classic rock as much as anyone (AC/DC, ZZ Top, Zeppelin, Skynyrd, etc.) But once in a while smooth & easy is good, too.

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  2. Guess what bozo FB fans, I found another “break a leg,” Commie Lush, rubber leg, dipso performance!!! CL’s jet fuel routine might have won a Gong Show Trophy, hands down.

    I’m pretty sure this is CL trying to forget Dumpster U’s come from ahead, humiliating Tulane defeat at the Cotton Picker/Picking Bowl.

    It appears CL has had some training in Floor Exercise routines.

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  3. Again, the 1950s might have been the best decade in America with
    WW2 done with, the Korea War far away, everybody housed and working. Why not storm Westwood Village after a rare football victory over the ‘Hated One’

    Compared to what we have going on today– if this blog is any indication steer me away from any debate involving a
    rebumblican or democrap

    And me, the t.v. ignoramus, was watching it for a couple of hours at my wife’s place, Saturday night, and Kevin Costner in some western series is casually using the F-word and calling someone an SOB.
    Sorry kids, “but the times they are a-changin'” and no room for kids

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    1. I’d say LJ, 1948 – 1967, are the sweet spot years. In fact, I never saw a CA homeless person (Alky derelicts excepted.) until Ronnie Reagan became Gov…F**K that POS; the man ruined CA.

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      2. Gee what happened to increase homeless all over the nation? It’s a mystery:

        Reflecting on JFK’s Legacy of Community-based Care

        “I am proposing a new approach to mental illness and to mental retardation. This approach is designed, in large measure, to use Federal resources to stimulate State, local and private action. When carried out, reliance on the cold mercy of custodial isolation will be supplanted by the open warmth of community concern and capability. Emphasis on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation will be substituted for a desultory interest in confining patients in an institution to wither away.”

        — John F. Kennedy
        Special Message to the Congress on Mental Illness and Mental Retardation
        February 5, 1963

        In 2008, Senator Edward Kennedy and his son Representative Patrick Kennedy, President Kennedy’s brother and nephew, respectively, updated The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). The Act requires that health insurers treat mental and/or substance use disorders in the same way they treat other illnesses.

        We asked Patrick Kennedy for comment about how the world of mental health care has changed since his uncle’s speech. He replied:

        “President Kennedy gave us a great vision of what could be when he proposed and signed the Community Mental Health Act in 1963. As I travel around the country today, I hear from people affected by mental illness, addiction, or intellectual and developmental disabilities who are energized by the hope and promise President Kennedy introduced into their lives and their families’ lives. But we have to acknowledge that the execution of the vision was flawed, that fragmented implementation of the promise it held out allowed too many people to fall through the cracks. Too many people failed to receive the help they needed. Too many became homeless or were bypassed by our society.”

        https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources/hpr-resources/jfks-legacy-community-based-care

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  5. Without sounding too racist, the student population at both universities in Los Angeles has changed ethnically and thus fewer members of the student body care about sports. Many had never seen “American Football” some cannot pronounce it and some think the game involves no use of the hands.
    You can’t have fever pitched rallies without fans. People out of school work on weekdays. It’s a shame, but the shift in interest is real.

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