UCLA Football Opponent Deep Cut: Stanford

The Deep Cut is a companion piece to the Opponent Preview, in which I take a closer look at something related to the opponent, with a humorous slant.

In 2018, a writer at a prominent UCLA sports blog set about designing an experiment to test the psychological bounds of sports fandom. Over the course of the summer, the writer’s family was forced to watch Stanford football for days on end, with one individual given a telestrator and put in control over the images displayed. The following notes represent a chronicle of their descent into madness. This is:

Day 1

I welcomed the subjects (I felt it was necessary to refer to my family as subjects, in order to feel less guilt about what was about to…