Can Nate Longshore Ever Please the Cal Bears Fans?
It seems football, more than any other sport, provides us with an interminable offseason of endless chatter that rinses and repeats the same old storylines. By the time we get to opening day we’re so exhausted of the cycle we’re just happy for the release of the kickoff. “He played admirably through three and a half quarters most of the time…it was just one thing here or there. During inopportune times, we’d turn the football over. Some of it was [his] responsibility and some of it wasn’t, but he’s the one who shouldered the blame for the whole deal.” In my first year of covering Cal football fullscale, one question has loomed over everything else, practically sapping all the fun out of covering the team so everyone can play their own version of ESPN talking head. People have obsessed over the topic on message boards and communities alike, exhausting the subject by retreading the same points ad nauseam. It’s a poisonous thing, a quarterback controversy is, and it can cripple a fanbase
