The open grill was flaming, the oldie jams were blaring, and Fresno remembered what it means to have a good time again.
Fresno State football was back Thursday, getting an estimated 30,000 fans to agree that they do not, in fact, have anything better to do on a work night in September. After all, there is no show like a Bulldogs season opener, certainly not in this town.
“Just having fun, like we always do,” said big fella Richard Abaya, who’s gone from a teenager hawking dollar hot dogs inside Bulldog Stadium to swallowing them whole in the grass parking lot outside 30 years later.