He’s attended 79 consecutive Rose Bowl games. His 80th game will be Alabama-Michigan
|Reynolds Crutchfield like asking people how many Rose Bowl games they’ve seen. It’s an excellent icebreaker.
During a pregame Hall of Fame luncheon outside the stadium, a man from New Mexico named Duane Schmitz noticed Crutchfield sitting alone and felt sorry for him. He approached and introduced himself, and then the question came.
“I get all puffed up,” Schmitz told a source this week, “and I said, ‘Twenty.'”
Crutchfield responded calmly that he’d been to 55 in a row. This happened 25 years ago.
“I crawled under the table,” Schmitz jokingly said.