Comments on: The East Los Angeles Classic

By: Rough Rider Alumni Band

Rough Rider Alumni Band — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:03:10 +0000

Well, our Rough Riders took the trophy home this year, beating Garfield 28-16. It was a great game and a great evening. Congrats to both schools for not getting out of hand, the way a few knuckleheads on each side did last year. And congrats to the RHS drum majors for not dropping their batons. I was an RHS drum major for the 1982 Classic and I know how much pressure these guys were under to perform well. Hope you all enjoyed the 3rd quarter performance of the Rough Rider Alumni Band. We worked hard the entire season to put on a good show for you all. If you were a member (in good standing) of the RHS marching band for at least one season, and you graduated from RHS, you can join us. Visit our website at http://www.roughrideralumniband.org Ride On!!

By: AlDesmadre

AlDesmadre — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:06:47 +0000

Even back when I was at Garfield, I remember the coaches commenting on the fact that our players were all these short little guys and just a few miles away, other schools like Bell had all these big tall college sized looking players. Must be something in the water.

By: random hero

random hero — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:18:35 +0000

damn straight there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s also nothing wrong with having girls play on the team either. The only thing that sucked is that they dressed up for the game and the coaches didn’t put them in.

By: Hector

Hector — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:55:18 +0000

I’m a Roosevelt grad, but only went to one game: 1989, when Roosevelt lost after their running back got stopped at the one yard line on a last second play. The quarterback heaved a bomb just to get them there.

The running back, I heard, took his own life some years later (I don’t have any reason to believe it had anything to do with the game; he obviously had other problems, I guess). It was a great game, and he in fact had a great game.

After the game we went to The Hat, and miraculously, no brawls broke out. The girl I went with was driving though, and I thought we were going to die cause she drove like she was Mr. Magoo. It wasn’t even a date per se, so it would have especialy sucked if I had died.

By the way, only in the Eastside (and by that I mean East of the L.A. River, from Lincoln Heights and Boyle Heights east), can you win with quarterbacks the size of Herve Villachaize. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

By: Al Desmadre

Al Desmadre — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:21:31 +0000

As a Garfield Bulldog alumni myself, all I can say is:
“Que Lastima”

By: random hero

random hero — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:13:32 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s all true. When there were three minutes left in the game, people started throwing bottles and sodas at each on the Roosevelt side. I’m ashamed of my school and the damn mocosos ruining the game and acting, well like dumb teenagers.

By: ninna

ninna — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:32 +0000

I went to the Classic on Friday, ofcourse for Garfiels side and I knew from the start that Bulldogs where going to win, I mean c’mon hehe…the teddy bears aka roughriders,which I find that so ironic where sore loosers, they kept running there mouth as if they won and wanted to be all ghetto wanting to start a fight, I mean you guys lost,there, you know….where winning next year and years to come because Garfield High jocks are the toughest and plainly the BEST =)

By: Art

Art — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:52:02 +0000

jc, garfield sells the sweaters from their student store on campus. I just bought 10 of them for my familia for Xmas because they are badass and I got a deal for painting a school mural. I had seen them at dodger games and thought they were just about eastlos, but found out they are ghs sweaters a few months back. As a roughrider/bulldog/spartan I would prefer a sweater with the slogan on the back alone, but they wouldnt do that for me. Cool sweaters though.

By: jc

jc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:02:18 +0000

does anyone know where I can get a “home grown in East LA shirt/sweater?

By: Richard Guillen

Richard Guillen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:29:24 +0000