This is only a portion of the 90,000 UCLA or USC football fans that you can spend a few hours with! Game day starts several hours before kickoff with tens of thousands of fans taking over a golf course for parking and tailgating. This game happened to be the season opener vs the U of Tennessee Volunteers. The UCLA Bruins pulled off an upset in a thriller!
This was a great way to close up Labor Day weekend and kick off the school season with a bang!
Just imagine a picture perfect holiday evening, the sun is about to set and the blimp is floating in the sky! Then the thunder of the fans chanting …U…C…L…A… UCLA…Fight Fight Fight! A massive roar engulfs the stadium rattling your bones to the core! This is the college sport culture in Los Angeles and throughout the country! The rivalries are epic, the games are more like weekend events where fans from both schools converge and celebrate their school spirit!
The “Tournament of Roses” was a festival started in the 1890’s and has included a football game since 1923. This year the USC Bruins won and hopefully they can compete there next year when the NCAA Football National Championship game will be held here!
The largest crowd to ever watch a game here was 106, 869 fans at the 1973 Rose Bowl, USC v.s. Ohio St. The Rose Bowl has held 5 Super Bowls, Olympic Soccer and Men’s and Woman’s Soccer World Cup,It was built in 1922 at a cost of $272,000 and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark!
When attending events make sure you come early otherwise you will be parking in the overflow lot 2 miles down the golf course!
