Ken Crawford

Ken is a lifelong Cal Bears fan. He inherited his Cal credentials from his father, Alumni of the College of Engineering, 1972. Ken is himself an engineer working for Hewlett Packard, although without the impressive college credentials of his father. His father imparted his love for the Bears by taking Ken to Lair of the Bear (camp blue, week 7), Cal’s alumni summer family camp, for each of the first 21 years of his life. Between the indoctrination received at the Lair and living in Oakland, Ken’s love for the Bears would transcend his own college loyalties.

Ken has been a season ticket holder since he graduated from college in 1999. He proved his mettle by sitting through three of the worst years of Cal football, the end of the Holmoe era. Starting in 2003 Ken started blogging, mostly about his Catholic faith but occasionally about the Bears. Starting in 2004 the emphasis of his blogging moved from Catholic issues to the Bears. In 2006, he was asked by Rival’s Cal Bear correspondent to start writing for Rivals. He was their lead football writer for the 2nd half of the 2006 season and a contributor in the years that followed, mostly covering road games and writing analysis pieces. Family commitments forced him to step down from that roll after the 2009 season and the Bears performance suffered greatly the following season, missing a bowl for the first time since Tedford’s second year.

Ken lives in the Sacramento area with his wife, three boys and baby daughter. His sons have not missed a Big Game in their life and Ken intends to keep it that way despite Stanford shrinking its stadium.

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