Our Prior Rendezvous in USC Territory

Around this same time of year, back in December 2003-January 2004, Ricky, Jake and I found ourselves on the USC campus (my friend Deming was there too) en route from San Francisco to Vegas to Phoenix to LA. We happened to be there at the exact same time that the coach and some of the players were presenting the media with their precious AP National Championship Trophy (having beaten Michigan in the Rose Bowl; LSU won the BCS National Championship, both teams had 1 loss). Here's a photo of that trip with Jake and Nazur (retarded, long hair) posing with the trophy, Pete Carroll is the gray hair on the left behind Nazur). If you look really close you can see Jake's skin covered with poison-ivy.



I looked Pete Carroll in the eye that day and called him a "bitch." He sniffled and hid behind some linebacker, pretending not to hear me. I spat on their rows of Heisman trophies (O.J.'s especially), and really wasn't all that impressed with that lame-ass crystal football that they seemed so proud of. Keanu Reeves was also nearby filming Constantine on campus that day. No wonder that movie flopped after being filmed at such a lame school.

Before I left I vowed that one day the streets of Pasadena would run red with the blood of the Trojans after the 94th Rose Bowl where they would taste the bitter, rotting sourness of defeat. Then I checked out some of their ridiculous cheerleaders and bought a t-shirt at the bookstore.