Top ranked press boxes

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! (Better that than a Notre Dame weiner.)

 

USC's is the most talented, but once a year it serves some food poisoning in the halftime buffet, and gets disqualified from the national title picture.

 

I believe that would be UCLA?

 

Boise State's is usually good, but nobody wants to go there

 

If you had a playoff, such as the Championship Press-Box Subdivision, you could settle this on the field, errrrr, in the concourses.

 

Because all the chairs are covered with blue turf

 

Is it true you can watch ducks try to land on the turf from Boise's press box?

 

No, UCLA serves some sort of rancid stuff that they try to pass off as almost as good as the USC buffet, but those in the know know better. It's just the same old crap they've had in the pantry for 40 years, and they try to pass off the dull and faded wrapper as "retro".

 

boise is a great city. i love going there. hospitality of the locals is excellent.
and yes, birds have been known to land on the blue turf. honest.
now when they had the old press box, it was a horrific place to cover a game. i covered one of the Humanitarian Bowl games there in pre-new press box days and was a major test of patience to get through it. cramped, no wireless at that time, sporadic phone lines, etc..folks there tried their best to accommodate, but it was the sheer conditions and limitations of the press box itself that caused much of the problems.
now, boise state's press box is superb.

 

Covered a game at Mississippi Valley State once. It was superb. The SID was kind enough to give you a newspaper to swat the hornets with, and he sprayed a couple of nests at halftime.
And the buffet? His wife made a mean chili. He brought the leftovers.

 

At Cal you get a ticket for a boiled hot dog. They even provide mustard for free.

That, plus all the popcorn and soda you can put down? Memorial Stadium rocks!!!

 

Cal's press box implodes every year at least twice against press boxes it has no reason to lose to.