Yesterday, I checked another item off of my life to-do list: rush the field after a football game.

I sat one row back from the field  in the end zone at yesterday’s Big Game between Cal and Stanford.  Remarkably, Stanford earned and kept the lead, and when the final second ticked away, I was one of the first to the grass.  The sheriffs in riot gear had no prayer of stopping the thousands of jubilant Stanford students, so they stood off to the side.

The experience was exactly as I had imagined it: wonderful.