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The Colorado Buffalo’s are ranked #29 for the first time in the AP poll this year! Come see the Buffs battle it out with Florida State at Jones Sports Bar at 12:30pm on Saturday the 27th of September.

The CU vs West Virgina Watch Party at Jones Sports Bar was again a huge success! We brought in hundreds of CU alumni and JONES brought in the Coors Light Girls and created satellite bar stations to keep the beer flowing throughout the game. CU fans drank nearly 100 cases of beer and 8 kegs!

Colorado is JONES’ number 1 crowd and they will continue to be our bar of choice for the entire football season! TV upgrades will be present for the upcoming CU – Florida State game!

Drink / Food Specials
$10 Coors Light and Bud Light Pitcher
$14 Blue Moon Pitchers
$13 Bud or Bud Light Buckets
$5 Margaritas
$5 Yeager Bombs
$10 Burger, fries and beer combs

RSVP to the facebook event and make sure to post your pictures after the game. http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=33979416757

How about those Buffaloes!!! An OT win on a windy night under the lights at Folsom with a score of 17-14! This was CU’s first win against a ranked team since the Oklahoma win last year. CU jumped out early with a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Hawkins threw a dart to wide receiver Josh Smith for a 38 yard touchdown. Moments later, after a West Virginia fumble was recovered, Pat Devenny caught a 13 yard TD pass from Cody to give the Buffs a 14-0 first quarter lead.

Then it was West Virginia’s turn to go on a 14-0 scoring run in the 2nd and 3rd quarter to tie the game and put the Buffs in OT for the finale! CU defense held West Virginia to a field goal attempt which would have put the Mountaineers up by 3, but a close kick from the left hash mark sailed left and clanged against the upright and was NO GOOD!! After CU ran 4 plays, Aric Goodman came in for the game winning kick and gave the Buffs the 3 point victory and gave the fans a chance to storm the field and celebrate with their team!

CU’s balanced attack was highlighted by new-comer Rodney Stewart who had 28 carries for 166 yards on the ground.  Cody Hawkins threw for 179 yards with 2 TD’s and 1 INT.

The San Francisco Watch Party at Jones Sports Bar was also a huge success! We brought in hundreds of CU alumni and JONES brought in the Coors Light Girls and created satellite bar stations to keep the beer flowing throughout the game. CU fans drank nearly 100 cases of beer and 8 kegs!

Colorado is JONES’ number 1 crowd and they will continue to be our bar of choice for the entire football season! TV upgrades will be present for the upcoming CU – Florida State game!

THANK YOU to all of you who purchased a NorCalBuffs T-Shirt!!! We sold over 60 shirts at $20 each.  100% of the proceeds go back into our local Northern California Alumni Club. Funds will be used to discount future events and a portion will go towards a matching scholarship to a Northern California high school senior attending Colorado as a freshman.

Team Stats:

As CU dodged a bullet on Saturday 06 Sep 08 against a powerful Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA) team, the Eastern Washington Eagles. The Buff’s 4th quarter interception return for a touchdown with under 2 minutes to go to gave the Buffs the go-ahead touchdown and a game ending score of 31-24.

But a win is a win and CU is now 2-0 on the season and faces #24 West Virginia (1-1) (dropped from #8) for CU’s first night game under the lights at Folsom Field!!!  This game is scheduled to be a BLACKOUT where all CU fans in Folsom will be wearing black (much like last year against Florida State):

This game will be a nationally televised game on ESPN and will be the Buffs first action against a top 25 team.

Colorado moved up in the rankings from #42 to #40 receiving 3 votes in the USA Today’ Poll.

The San Francisco Watch Party will again be at JONES Sports Bar in the Marina District of San Francisco:

URL: http://www.jones-sf.com/index_flash.html

Address: 2400 Lombard St (at Scott St.), San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-440-2000)

Our last Watch Party held At JONES Sports Bar on 31 Aug 2008 was larger than expected. The JONES staff was under prepared for the estimated 400+ CU alumni and friends that watched the game. JONES said that they had 200+ on Saturday for the USC-Virginia game and the bar was pretty packed, but the CU crowd dwarfed the USC crowd to the point that the bar RAN OUT OF BEER. They had to make a beer run to Safeway just to have bottles to hand out to Buff fans!

Of course this upset both CU fans and the bar owners. Thus, the management team promises to be prepared for our large CU crowd for ALL Future games! They will have additional bartenders, servers, and kitchen staff and have LOWERED their prices to CU BUFFS only (not other schools):

$10 Coors Light and Bud Light Pitcher

$14 Blue Moon Pitchers

$13 Bud or Bud Light Buckets

$5 Margaritas

$5 Yeager Bombs

$10 Burger, fries and beer combo

Rest of the food menu will remain the same

In addition to the specials above, JONES will also have:

3 Satellite bars + Main bar
12 additional servers
15 kegs
50 cases of beer

I, Chris Jones, your Northern California CU Club Leader, will be resigning my position as of 23 Sep 2008. Your NEW club President will be former Vice-President, Chris Hemphill.

On 16 Sep 2008, I was given notice to serve a 400 day tour of duty with the US Army in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and will be leaving San Francisco for 13 months as of 19 Oct 2008.

Army version of Chris Jones

This sudden change may temporarily disrupt emails and events held for all Northern California Buffs. We held our monthly Board Meeting on 16 Sep 2008 and Chris Hemphill and his team will be taking over all aspects of:

• Event Planning
• Watch Parties
• Emails
• Finances
• Website
• T-Shirt Sales
• Philanthropy
• Photos

I have had a great time serving the 3800+ alumni in Northern California for the past 15 months. Thank you for all of your support, ideas, and CU enthusiasm over the past year.

Please welcome Chris Hemphill and his team as they take over from where I am leaving off. If any of you need to reach me directly, please email me at my personal email address of:  december20th@yahoo.com.

Going forward, all emails to chris [at] norcalbuffs [dot] com will be forwarded to your new President Chris Hemphill.

GO BUFFS!!!

Chris Hemphill

Fellow alum, Jon Hilbert (1960, Psychology), has volunteered to be the point of contact for CU alumni in the Chico/Oroville area in Northern California!

There are roughly 100 registered CU alumni living in the Chico/Oroville area.

Jon is interested in getting the local alums together for football Watch Parties and other events. Local alumni can contact Jon via email at: bonandjon@gmail.com

CU and West Virginia both had bye weekends as they prepare for play this Thursday at Folsom Field. Colorado (2-0) dropped in the USA Today’ Poll two spots to #42, while WV (1-1) moved up two spots to #22. Colorado is also a 3 point underdog in this Thursday’s game.

This past weekend, the BIG XII remained at the top of the leader’s board among BCS conferences with a 6-2 record (Kansas lost to South Florida as time expired and Iowa State lost to instate rival Iowa). Overall the BIG XII has a 28-4 record which is the nations best conference record! The BIG XII also has 4 teams in the Top 10, plus Kansas at #19, Nebraska at #28, Oklahoma State at #31, and Colorado at #42.

This Thursday’s game will be CU’s first game on Thursday night in 18 years! Thursday will also be a BLACKOUT game at Folsom Field where all Buff fans will be wearing black, much like last year against Florida State.

This game will be nationally televised on ESPN and will be the Buffs first game against a Top 25 team!

The San Francisco Watch Party will again be at JONES Sports Bar in the Marina District of San Francisco:

URL: http://www.jones-sf.com/index_flash.html

Address: 2400 Lombard St (at Scott St.), San Francisco, CA 94123 (415-440-2000)

Our last Watch Party held At JONES Sports Bar on 31 Aug 2008 was larger than expected. The JONES staff was under prepared for the estimated 400+ CU alumni and friends that watched the game. JONES said that they had 200+ on Saturday for the USC-Virginia game and the bar was pretty packed, but the CU crowd dwarfed the USC crowd to the point that the bar RAN OUT OF BEER. They had to make a beer run to Safeway just to have bottles to hand out to Buff fans!

Of course this upset both CU fans and the bar owners. Thus, the management team promises to be prepared for our large CU crowd for ALL Future games! They will have additional bartenders, servers, and kitchen staff and have LOWERED their prices to CU BUFFS only (not other schools):

$10 Coors Light and Bud Light Pitcher

$14 Blue Moon Pitchers

$13 Bud or Bud Light Buckets

$5 Margaritas

$5 Yeager Bombs

$10 Burger, fries and beer combo

Rest of the food menu will remain the same

In addition to the specials above, JONES will also have:

3 Satellite bars + Main bar
12 additional servers
15 kegs
50 cases of beer

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Colorado earns another win to become 2-0 on the season, while the entire BIG XII went 12-0 for the first time in history, thus cementing the conference as the TOUGHEST college football conference in the country!!!

The Buffs overcame a 21-7 halftime deficit to win the home opener by a score of 31-24. Perhaps the Buffs were looking ahead to the West Virginia night came coming up on Sep 18th, or maybe Eastern Washington was just better than the Buffs expected. Either way, Colorado pulled their game together in the 2nd half to outscore EWU by 24-3.

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Please RSVP to chris [at] norcalbuffs [dot] com with the total number of guests you will bring to this event so Sports Basement can purchase the appropriate amount of food and beverages for the evening.

The Sports Basement (Presidio location) has again offered Northern California CU Alumni a tremendous deal:

• 20% off coupon for your ENTIRE purchase for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in the store
• FREE beer so you can drink while you shop
• FREE pizza, hors d’oeuvres, and cookies to load up on carbs while you shop
• Year-round 10% discount for all CU Alumni Association Members

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