![]() ![]() Now, their sons are best friends: Bryce Treggs and Kodi Whitfield, born weeks apart, are inseparable. (Treggs went to Carson High Whitfield to Banning.) ![]() All these years later, people still remember that.”īrian Treggs, reached by phone, said the person who ribs him the most about the failed boast is Bob Whitfield, the Stanford alum - and his best friend since they went to rival high schools as teenagers. People give him a hard time about it when he comes up here. If we get the win, then he doesn’t have to move out there. Hopefully, his promise can be lived through me. “Dang, you put some pressure on me because I’m sure they’re going to be talking about it over there because I’m your son,” Bryce joked this week, when asked about the infamous wager. Don’t expect Bryce to make the same boast about moving to Palo Alto - not with the median home price there approaching $2.5 million. The Cardinal won that game 38-21 (although, to date, Treggs has stayed put in Inglewood). Bryce heads into the Big Game with 2,114 yards (11th) and 179 catches (fifth).īrian Treggs was so passionate about the rivalry during his playing days that he once bet the house on it: In 1991, he vowed to move to Palo Alto if Cal failed to beat Stanford. One of the few players to approach those marks is his son. “We’d actually have to remove the pictures just so they wouldn’t get offended by us having a portrait of this little kid with his Cal gear on,” Brian explained.Ī star wideout from 1988-91, Brian Treggs ranks fifth in Cal history with 2,335 receiving yards and sixth with 167 receptions. Whenever recruiters from other schools came to visit - such as Stanford - Brian had to walk around the living room removing all the photos of Bryce wearing Bears clothing. He said Bryce had his first Cal shirt by the time he was 6 months old. Indeed, Brian Treggs raised his little boy Blue. “Now that I’m here, he definitely doesn’t like ‘em at all. “He still doesn’t like ‘em too much,” Cal receiver Bryce Treggs said of his dad, a former Bears receiver. The kids gearing up for Saturday’s showdown speak of learning the significance of the Big Game at a young age, as well as inheriting a distrust of the school on the other side of the bridge. Stanford’s side includes McCaffrey and safety Kodi Whitfield, whose father, Bob, was an All-America lineman. The alumni connections in Berkeley include sophomore safety David Garner, whose father, Dwight, made the third lateral in “The Play” and freshman receiver Justin Dunn, whose father, Steve, was also on the field at the time. The Berkeley side alone has 10 players whose dads or granddads played for the Bears, making it fair to wonder if father knows Jahvid Best. In all, more than a dozen players this Saturday are descendants of either Stanford or Cal letter-winners. “It was not viewed in my household,” Christian said this week, smiling wide. ![]()
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