Fresno State officials, of course, say the alcohol ban was to cut down on innappropriate behavior in the stands, which doesn't affect the sky boxes anyway.

You'd have to guess innappropriate things are said and done up there, too, you just hardly ever see it on TV.

It's also harder to throw objects or spit at opposing players from up there, granted, but c'mon, it's a rule. Can we at least stop telling grade-school children that "rules are rules?" Rules are not rules. If you have money, you can do almost anything you want.

I was up in the press box, scrounging around for food at about midnight Saturday night after the game, and saw a half-empty bottle of wine in the box reserved for the opposing team's athletic director. Hmmm, that seems weird. And then I forgot all about it, probably because my brain was fried from trying to make an 11 p.m. deadline after an insane game that ended at 10:45 p.m.

Quick sidenote: What an exciting game. What an atmosphere. There were 10-minute sections of the second half when I completely forgot I was supposed to be writing. At one point I thought, holy cow, this is loud. And I've covered an Alabama-Auburn game, so that's saying something.

Anyway, I read Oregonian columnist John Canzano's column, where he mentioned -- for different reasons -- that Oregon A.D. Bill Moos and Oregon booster/Nike master-and-commander Phil Knight had a half-empty bottle of "Petite Sirah" in their box. That led his readers to a heated debate as to whether it was "Sirah" or "Syrah" or "Shiraz," or if any of those could actually be petite.

(For those of you who don't know, Canzano used to be the sports columnist at the Bee a few years ago, and has his own blog at the Oregonian. I had wanted to do a back-and-forth exchange of some kind with him the days before the game, but we didn't have time, so that's what happened with that.)

To readers in Fresno, it should be the fact that some people can drink at Bulldogs games, and some people can't, that should be debated. Here in this blog, everyone is welcome, especially those who would scavenge for food in the opposing A.D.'s sky box after he left.