SB Nation’s OBNUG rolls out their weekly cheeky Boise State opponent preview, featuring many true and true-ish facts about the Fresno State Bulldogs:
Boise State Vs. Fresno State: True* Facts Of Fresno!
10) What we call “Fresno State”, is actually California State University, Fresno. The school was founded in 1911 as Fresno State Normal School and went on to become Fresno State Teachers College and Fresno State College before becoming California State University, Fresno in 1972. Just so we’re clear...it went from FSNS to FSTC to FSC to CSUF. Now you’re ready to compete in the acronym olympics (in Munich this year, I believe).
9) Fresno, California was once the proud home of the first modern landfill in the United States, the Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill. Opened in 1937, the landfill incorporated trenching, compacting, and the daily covering of trash with dirt as part of it’s modern practices, but never realized the most modern method of waste disposal: a supersonic cannon blast into the sun. Why? Because I hold the world’s only patent on the supersonic trash cannon (coming in Spring of 2011).
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