Cal Bear Fans Know How to Use the Internet for Good

This has to be one of the best practical jokes I've ever seen. There is not much of a better way to top this. Although it makes you wonder how many players they had to try this on before one would bite.

http://rangelife.typepad.com/rangeli...ia_not_vi.html

Quote:

Victoria, not Victorious

At last Saturday's Cal men's hoops season finale versus USC, Bears boosters pulled a prank that straddles the fuzzy gray line between "Crap-Yer-Pants Hilarious" and "Inexcusably Cruel."

When USC guard Gabe Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before clanking his free throws.

It turns out that a couple of mischeivous little bastards from the Cal student section had been IM'ing with Pruitt all week under the identity of "Victoria," a fictional UCLA hottie, and Pruitt was eagerly anticipating a date with this nubile co-ed back in Westwood after the game. In preparation for the date, Pruitt had handed over his digits, which the Cal student section recited back to him in unison.

Pruitt, a 79% free throw shooter this season, missed both shots after the "VIC-TOR-IA" chants began, and hit only three out of 13 shots the whole game. Cal beat USC by 11 for the season sweep, in part due to the Cal fans' devious psy-ops.

Other perspectives on this prank are http://sarcastipundit.blogspot.com/2...-victoria.html and http://dryuen2005.blogspot.com/2006/...-victoria.html.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is some funny shit. The person that came up with that ploy and got the crowd in on it deserves an award.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

My god. That... that's beautiful. I can't even begin to explain how much I love that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.