{"id":245,"date":"2006-12-15T01:06:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/ucsb-soccer-championship-celebration-only-in-isla-vista\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:34:36","slug":"ucsb-soccer-championship-celebration-only-in-isla-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/ucsb-soccer-championship-celebration-only-in-isla-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"UCSB Soccer Championship Celebration &#8211; Only in Isla Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My alma mater UCSB doesn&#8217;t have a great history of success when it comes to sports. Sure, we do pretty well at diving, water polo, volleyball, and ultimate frisbee but it isn&#8217;t too often that we have something to celebrate. A couple of weeks ago the Gauchos soccer team upset UCLA and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UC_Santa_Barbara_Gauchos_men's_soccer#2006_NCAA_Championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the national championship<\/a>. The Gauchos celebrated this rare national championship in a very unique way. They carried the goal out of Harder Stadium (the game wasn&#8217;t even played there; it was played in St. Louis), carried it across Isla Vista (half a mile???), threw the goal over the cliffs down to the beach, and finally, threw the goal into the ocean. The mob was singing O-le, O-le O-le O-le, GAUCHOS, GAUCHOS the whole time. All I can say is: Only in Isla Vista!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UCSB SOCCER WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP &#039;06...GOAL POST LOSES\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ml8fRjDn5eM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the ocean!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UCSB soccer wins NCAA title. goal gets tossed over cliff.\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FDUco2nMOg0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bK2x_e7NqGE\"><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bK2x_e7NqGE\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alma mater UCSB doesn&#8217;t have a great history of success when it comes to sports. Sure, we do pretty well at diving, water polo, volleyball, and ultimate frisbee but it isn&#8217;t too often that we have something to celebrate. A couple of weeks ago the Gauchos soccer team upset UCLA and won the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,70,7,71,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-soccer","category-sports","category-ucsb","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}