College Football’s Bad News Bears

College Football’s Bad News Bears

When Joe Kapp took over the football team at the University of California-Berkeley before the 1982 season, he wanted to impress upon his players the need to make sacrifices. So the coach made them a vow: He would forgo tequila until Cal won the Rose Bowl. Nearly three decades later, the 71-year-old is still waiting.
“I’ve got the bottle right here,” he says.

Talk of curses is uncommon in college football. Most of the great historical jinxes—the “please-let-them-win-before-I-die” kind—haunt the fans of professional teams, where a rotten owner can cripple a team for generations.

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10/1/9