On January 1, 1982, in temperatures of minus 12 degrees, the Pasadena Rose Bowl Stadium north of Los Angeles ushered in this year's game. The Rose Bowl was also a sad place for Stanford's Red and White team, with the inaugural Rose Bowl ending with a clean sheet from Stanford and a 49-point run from the University of Michigan.

As with the San Francisco derby, the crowd was packed, with 105,000 seats crammed with fans from all over California and even several nearby states. The slight difference is that the red and white team has a lot fewer fans, and a large number of neutral fans occupy the corners of the stands.

The two sides of the game are the Stanford University men's football team and the University of Iowa football team, the latter is known as the Hawkeye team, the logo is a golden eagle head, so the audience is mainly supported by gold and red, but there are many other colors.

Thanks to its popularity, the NCAAF began televising early on, the league itself, major leagues and even individual schools signed contracts with television broadcasters, and hit fees were also one of the sources of income for the university's powerhouses, so the Rose Bowl was played across the country. Even if you count all the rugby games since 1938, the Rose Bowl has attracted the highest number of viewers.

In fact, excluding the NFL and Olympics, fifteen of the top 50 sports games in the nation are college football games, 15 NBA games, eight college basketball games, and the worst ones are baseball-related games, even with the World Series and All-Star Game being only five.

At this time, there were no fighter planes at the opening of the Rose Bowl, and after the honor guard finished the performance, the red and white teams and the Hawkeye team entered one after another, and in a friendly atmosphere, the players from both sides shook hands with the referees.

But the next game was not friendly, at that time, there was no NCAAF officially recognized national championship, and the championship of the six major bowls was the highest honor that their respective leagues could get, so the two teams did their best to get the points.

For individual players, the Rose Bowl is also the highest hall they can step on in a college game, and their performance in this game can even affect their round and position in the draft.

As a result, the players who had been hiding and letting go of the sea in order not to get injured also played at their strongest level.

"Oh my God, if this continues, I'm going to have to come on as a substitute."

Adam, a roommate, muttered as he looked at the baking tray where the ball was flipped and the ball was passed to the person.

The situation on the field was really white-hot, and in the red and white team's defensive group back system, two fast-moving cornerbacks had been scrapped, one was carried on a stretcher, and the other was limped and helped to the dressing room to rest.

The benefits of this were also evident in that at the end of the first half, the opposing Hawkeyes had yet to tear apart the red and white team's defence and failed to score a touchdown.

"It's a good thing, maybe a game will make the managers of a professional team fall in love with you."

Sitting next to him, Beal was looking forward to playing, and while the Hawkeyes were particularly focused on offense because they didn't score points in the first half, their starters also dropped a lot, and the intensity of the body collision on the baking tray decreased slightly.

"To be honest, I played too much in the past season, my body was a little unbearable, and I didn't use much medicine, so I might not be able to hold the game today." Adam was pessimistic about himself.

Bill is optimistic about himself, he has not rolled the sheets every day in the past semester, the number of girlfriends has remained at one, there has been no large-scale expansion, plus he has eaten some growth hormone recommended by the nutrition group, and the data has evolved in the desired direction, and the current physical fitness should be at the peak of birth.

Not to mention anything else, in order to ensure that he is not easily injured during the confrontation and protect his internal organs and organs, his body fat rate has risen again to 16.5 percent, although it is not as bloated as the front line of more than 20, but in the outer line of emphasizing technology, his body is quite durable.

"Bill, you warm up quickly and get ready to play in the fourth quarter."

In the middle of the third quarter, Yevgeny, the offensive coach of the offensive team, ordered the number eighty-eight.

In the second half, the Hawkeyes also fought hard, leaving the red and white teams tired to cope. The first close end who had been injured before played two quarters and retired honorably and went to the locker room to keep warm, although the second near end could hold on, but there was an accident that he couldn't keep it, so Beal was also asked to warm up early.

Beal, who was famously happy, naturally agreed, and in the sixth minute of the fourth quarter, he was transferred to the court by the head coach.

In New York City, at Masico Conte's home, Bill's family gathered in front of the television to watch the CBS-televised Rose Bowl.

"The Mangroves brought on their third near end, Bill Ferrari, who is a good catcher based on his previous appearances......

The commentator quickly gave the audience a hint of the new players.

"Our Bill is on display, and from today onwards, the whole nation will remember his name."

The second uncle was the most excited, his hands raised above his head, like horns above his head. The rest of them were not far behind, and they couldn't sit still with excitement. It was the first time in their loved ones to appear in such a famous race.

Beal's performance lived up to their expectations, as Mr. Sportscar recreated his brutal rush in '79 and maintained his pace, and in the penultimate minute, with the quarterback and running back teaming up, he received the ball and scored his fourth touchdown for the red and white.

"Oooo The uncle, who was still quite stable, couldn't help it, standing on the sofa and yelling, Neo and his cousins shook their hands and danced awkwardly.

On the West Coast, the smell of the Rose Bowl was even hotter, and the red-and-white Stanford fans were almost crazy, and although there were more than two minutes left before the game was over, the Hawkeyes' defeat was a foregone conclusion.

After the special service team scored the extra points and the ball was converted, Bill and his offensive teammates returned to the bench to celebrate, and the team's strongest left-hand tackle, Haile Marry, carried the 88 directly on his shoulders to greet the cheering fans.

The professional team Rams didn't move to Los Angeles until 2016, and before that, the country's second-largest city didn't have its own professional football team, so local fans temporarily regarded the Red and White team, which is also from California, as their team, and contributed a lot of applause and cheers.

As Beal and his teammates celebrated, the final minutes were over, and the Stanford Red and White team scored 28 points and kept the Hawkeyes clean sheet with four touchdowns, except for the gloomy University of Iowa team members and their fans, everyone was happy, and the excited fans even rushed into the red and white team's locker room to snatch the jerseys, and in order to protect the safety of the players, the big-shouldered coaches had to block the door to let the players change their clothes.

……

Friday, January 15th.

"Yes, you heard me right, I want to buy a long order of gold, at the current price of $337 an ounce, with five times leverage, to buy 9,000 ounces."

In Yevgeny's office, Bill used his landline to talk to Andrew, a futures trader on the other side of the continent.

At present, his assets mainly include three major parts, one is more than 300,000 yuan in the LLC company account, the second is more than 60,000 demand deposits in the bank, and the third is the 800,000 one-year fixed deposit due to maturity, which brings 104,000 yuan in interest and 40,000 US dollars in individual income tax reduction.

After Reagan took office, the inflation rate in '81 was well controlled, and the interest rate on savings will inevitably fall in the future.

Now the logic of buying more gold orders is very simple, in April 82, the British brother country will start to work with Argentina. At that time, the fear of war will increase the safe-haven value of precious metals such as gold, and there will be a short-lived bull market in gold prices.

The trader on the other end of the phone received the instructions and went to the New York Mercantile Exchange to trade, but Yevgeny here was very interested in the players playing futures.

"Aren't you afraid of losing money? What we rugby players fear most is to invest indiscriminately and spend our hard-earned money after retiring. ”

The coach hugged his arm and kindly reminded.

He was telling the truth, in the seventies and eighties, every football player in the starting lineup had to have a contract salary of four or five million dollars in his career, and various benefits of more than one million dollars, that is, he paid thirty or forty percent of the tax, and he still had nearly three or four million in fact.

As long as this money is not spent, the whole family can live a wealthy middle-class life. And the career planning of star players is better, and many people go to participate in shows or movies after becoming famous, and seamlessly connect with the film and television circle after retiring.

Very few people play stocks or futures, because the reputation of rugby players doesn't work, and athletes can't play either.

"It's just an amateur speculation in futures and some pocket money." Bill politely replied.

He had to wait for the fax machine to transmit the futures contract, so he didn't leave.

Yevgeny thought about it for a while and decided to give this handsome young man some life advice, "You know, we are no better than those people in the NBA, we have a short professional service time, and we can earn less than ten years, and then I mix well, and I will enter the varsity team like this, and my annual salary will remain at the level of an ordinary NFL player." There are even people who go to high school to coach and go to agencies to work as scouts......"

He began to chart the course of Bill's life.

“…… Since you're Italian, you might as well get in touch with directors in Los Angeles early, take on a few cameos in the offseason, and then use your connections to invest in movies or switch careers to film and television stars when you retire. Mr. Juice Simpson, that's what he did, and his peers have rumored that his personal asset management is quite good, and his worth is at least slowly increasing......"

His kind Bill said, "Yes, I am indeed in contact with directors and film and television circles in the south, and then mixing film and television circles is also one of my plans." In terms of investments, I don't put all my money out, I can't put all my eggs in one basket...... Actually, what I wanted to do was to invest in a few Silicon Valley startups, but because no one took me into the circle, the progress was basically not there. ”

The United States in the sixties and seventies was very embarrassed, but in the eighties and nineties, it gradually became angry, mainly because of the Internet wave and the self-explosion of Suzi. Investing in Silicon Valley and Internet companies is the key to class jump, there is no big way out for investing in movies, and it is okay to occasionally adjust the mood and praise the actresses you like, but it is absolutely impossible to be the main business.

"In fact, as a Stanford alumnus, there are still many ways for you to get access to opportunities to invest in Silicon Valley companies......

Before the spring training had begun, and during the day's working hours, Yevgeny explained what he knew to No. 88, who had a good relationship, although he did not advocate it.

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