and I'm guessing that he didn't really know what he was walking into when he walked out on that field tonight. This is a game that one has to have experienced to understand.
We had a friend over tonight, ironical a Jewish woman from Southern California who was dumbfounded by the gamed. I tried to tell her that it was going to be very intense, I tried to explain that there's a lot of hate. She watches football, she said that she's watched lots of rivalry games, but even watching on TV from thousands of miles away she was STILL taken completely off guard.
I just don't think that Retzlaff, and probably a lot of the others fully appreciated what this game is like, but now they do.