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Meh, don't get worked up about it, like Badger_HB said, we've never used that moniker. I don't want it. It reminds me of chewing gum...and by and by Wisconsin is worthy of respect in its own right, wait for B-Ball season.

http://content.usato...isconsin-loss/1

 

That is the link.

 

I thought it was kind of ridiculous that USA today dugs this up. I expected a local tv station to pick it up and that would be the end of it.

 

Some of the comments are a little rude. Like calling the behavior SEC like and not BIG Ten like. If our players are SEC like, instead of tearing off a paper towel dispenser, Chase Rome would have attacked some people at the airport mini-bar.

 

He won't be suspended, most likely he will get a talking to about keeping him emotions in check and channeling his frustration in a positiive way on and off the field.

Agreed, it's not Big Ten like at all, he didn't trade the dispenser for tattoos

I'm posting here at knapplc's direction so on topic...thank you.

Slightly off topic- I like this board. It's surprisingly receptive to other teams' fans. I may stick around (less obnoxiously of course)

You're embarrassed to live in WI? Blasphemy! I'd kill to trade places and be back in that great state...

nah but seriously it'll wear off with time, may take a little longer due to the WI bye though.

Howdy Huskers,

Quick question. Are K-State games worth going to?

I recently relocated to Manhattan for work and this town is crazy for the Wildcats...are gameday experiences worth it if I'm not a fan? I'm thinking about going because they're decent this year and I need my football fix. I figure many of you have made the trip...

Things escalated quickly in Madison, I mean it really got out of hand. There was a horse and a man on fire. In fact my friend Brick killed a guy.

This post wins.

Before this picture the sensitivity exhibited by husker fans perplexed me. Yes, we have a lot of rude fans (read students) at UW but I don't think I've ever heard this level of complaining from a visiting team. Now it all makes sense. Husker fans are kind of old...and old fashioned.

A few things here...

 

Huskerzoo, I am curious as to what you (or anyone else who was there) specifically thought about the stuff that happened in the stadium that doesn't get talked about. Jump Around is what gets the publicity but the singing, the interplay between sections, the wave, etc. I've had friends come to games there from all over the country....SEC and Pac12 schools is what they know and they've scratched their heads, laughed, scratched their heads some more and still talk about it.

 

I don't condone the vulgarity and as others have said don't let that give you a bad impression of UW fans. Most thing the ES-FU stuff is childish and you should ignore it but it's become so ingrained in the students carrying it on year after year that it's something that won't go away so you have to live with.

 

With that said, I am going to call out anyone who was shocked by the ES-FU and the a-hole chants because all you had to do was just a little bit of homework. Ask on the UW boards what a game is like for a visiting fan and you would've heard about this stuff. I know I saw it on here in the past few days and maybe months ago also. You'll find threads upon threads and mentions about how this is stupid.

 

As UW fans a reason why we might be skeptical of the horror stories is because of the chairleg thing I referenced earlier. A few years ago there was a ridiculous claim made by a Minnesota fan about an incident where a Badger fan was harassing a guy's wife and they got into a fight. If I remember this right this Gopher fan then fought off the perp by breaking apart a chairleg in a restaurant and jamming it into the eye socket of this Badger fan. This was posted on the gopherhole and others bought it hook line and sinker. It was quickly shown to be spawned from the delusional mind and it has become a running joke. I'm pretty sure that thread is archived on Buckyville somewhere and will give you a peek into the minds who you have to deal with when you face Minnesota.

 

Anyway....it's unfortunate that there were some bad things that happened and I'm not going to defend the actions of a few. Crappy stuff happens everywhere. A bunch of years ago a Tennessee fan was killed in a fight in Gainesville. That's not an indictment on all Gator fans, it's just proof that there are jerks wherever you go.

 

I have two related theories as to why the ugliest of the ugly things might have happened. 1) Nebraska wears red. Some of these younger Badger fans might have been too lubricated or haven't been paying attention to know that this was a red team not from Columbus, Ohio. Revisit this thread after you go there to compare. You'll think your time interacting with us was mild. and 2) Nebraska is west of Wisconsin. We are new to this whole "when visitors come from the west we should get along with them" idea. It's impossible to take Minnesota seriously as they try to tell us that they have the better program because they won games during the Great Depression and the Wisconsin-Iowa thing is a result of both programs being mirror images of each other and it feels like a sibling rivalry with the brother you absolutely despise.

QFT and on the "Crappy Stuff happens everywhere note" a fan died at the Carolina-Bama game last year after a fight at a tailgate and in the LSU-WVU game this year a Pregnant woman and her Husband were beaten so you just have to put it into perspective.

A little off topic but it fits here with "Madison Experience"...a gallery of yesterday's action...some very cool pictures of both sides.

One of my favorites...

Is he a regular at home games? Kind of corny but still funny.

But we do all agree that our cheerleaders are hotter than theirs, right?

 

I didn't see the Badger cheerleaders, but ours are quite cute.

Well then they've got ours beat. Ours are Caspers. No joke.

they're friendly spirits?

Friendly, I cannot say. Spirited, they are. Exposed to sunlight? Nope.

 

They have the Bill Clinton milky white thighs?

Calcium-enriched, too.

Well ours dress like its the 1950's so...yea

Oh the whining, good god the whining. I've found something UNL beats UW in.

here's something else NU beats UW at, having more good cholesterol.

not exactly.... http://www.webmd.com...ls-in-28-states

 

f#*k, our country is fat.

 

What's scary is seeing all the little fat kids mowing over my kids at the park and other places they play. There are kids that are 4 or 5 that have a gut hanging over their pants. I live in Minnesota btw

Can the Badgers have them?

Sounds like some future O-Line men, lets get them signed

 

Most of them are girls. Like I said, I live in MN.

Well the times are a-changin', about time we got ahead of the curve. Besides, maybe adding some women to the team would balance out title 9 and lets us play baseball again.

Oh the whining, good god the whining. I've found something UNL beats UW in.

here's something else NU beats UW at, having more good cholesterol.

not exactly.... http://www.webmd.com...ls-in-28-states

 

f#*k, our country is fat.

 

What's scary is seeing all the little fat kids mowing over my kids at the park and other places they play. There are kids that are 4 or 5 that have a gut hanging over their pants. I live in Minnesota btw

Can the Badgers have them?

Sounds like some future O-Line men, lets get them signed

From reading these forums I've come to many conclusions. Mainly that Nebraska is the best university to ever field a football program, and Nebraskans are all beautiful, welcoming people who are definitely not obese. Curse my luck for being born to a fat family of badger fans, life just isn't worth living, I'm doomed forever to be rude, vulgar and underachieving athletically. Woe is me.

If only we could all be from fair Nebraska, by far the greatest state in our illustrious union.

I knew this thread would eventually devolve into the "which state is fatter" argument.

They always do, I'm pretty sure this is how the civil war started

Oh the whining, good god the whining. I've found something UNL beats UW in.

here's something else NU beats UW at, having more good cholesterol.

not exactly.... http://www.webmd.com...ls-in-28-states

bazing

Oh the whining, good god the whining. I've found something UNL beats UW in.

I'd love to go to Lincoln, I still am most impressed with Auburn as far as hospitality goes though, maybe the Huskers can show them up.

I have to ask, what exactly do you guys want when you travel?

 

I went to an SEC school for my undergrad and saw many of the things mentioned above and worse (LSU especially comes to mind as does UGA). Maybe your expectations are a bit off. After all, you are invading another team's home, do you want to be coddled?

 

What schools have you found to be welcoming and hospitable to visitors? UT? OU?

 

I guess I just expected more from Wisconsin fans. NU/UW have no real history in football. There should be no bad blood. Barry Alvarez is a former Husker and turned UW around. Like I said, Friday night, we met some pretty cool UW fans and shared drinks, laughs, and our mutual dislike of Iowa. Then after the game, I was just astounded at the anger towards us. It was like Nebraska just won by 40 points instead of the other way around. I wouldn't have even wrote the OP if it didn't seem like EVERY fan had something awful to say to us. Groups of 2 or groups of 20. Each group was just down right angry and let us hear it.

 

Now, I'm not saying you won't hear similar stuff in Lincoln next year. The big difference is that it will be the exception to the rule, not coming from virtually every person you walk past.

 

I will never go to a game in Madison again for that reason. I don't expect to be coddled and treated with kid gloves, but I don't expect to have every person you walk past treat you like garbage either. I also would have had nicer things to say if just 1 UW fan would have stood up for us and told the others to shut up, like you will see in Lincoln, or if perhaps, more than 1 person would have told us good game.

I am really tired of hearing the Alvarez connection argument. Alvarez hasn't coached UW in more than a half-decade. This is Brett's team now and using your logic we should suck up to Iowa and the Hayden Fry tree now since we owe ALL our success to them now. What a bunch of crap, we're our own team. When Clemson played Auburn a few weeks back did you hear Auburn fans saying how Clemson owed them for Walter Riggs? Does UF owe Georgia Tech because of Spurrier's time in Atlanta? Do you guys owe Wyoming and MSU? No. Like I said we're our own team. Arguments like these and that picture of our "trophy case" posted in here are just stupid.

/endrant

The funny thing about this is the local economic impact, and how sh**ty fans of the home team impact the local economy.

 

I avoided heading up to Wisconsin, and the fan base hearsay was a big part of that. Same with Penn State. In either scenario, after food, drinks, lodging, tickets, souvenirs, etc., a long weekend/mini vacation could easily turn into a couple thousand dollars. That's money in the pockets of local home-team, home-state business owners. The same people who employ friends, family, and probably even some of these fans we hear about.

 

As someone that works at a mom-and-pop business in Omaha, I can't tell you how happy I am when we get large traveling crowd for sports matches. We can double or even triple our revenue from those types of events. That is money that helps our company stay successful. Many of the traveling fans with whom I have spoken talk about our hospitality and the friendliness of the people around here. Well, as much as other fan bases give us flak, that puts money in our pockets, and I'll keep doing it if it brings opposing fans who spend their dollars at my store.

 

These drunk dip-sh#ts are doing nothing but strutting their feathers and hurting their own economy by acting like this.

 

Why would I go spend my hard earned money somewhere where I can be called names and harassed. No Thanks. Thats my take from this.

Oh, the "If we're not nice to Nebraska you'll hold our economy hostage" card. Most people don't care, including myself. You're better off appealing to my sense of human decency than my pocketbook. that's just me.

Here is my experience. Friday night we went down to State St for some bar hopping. Nothing unusual about the night. We had the usual idiots who told us to F'n leave and that Nebraska sucked, but we also had some very good conversation and found the majority of the people there to be friendly. We even shared a van back to our hotel with Wisconsin fans and laughed and had a good time...Then was post game...

 

I am not kidding. I bet that 6 out of 10 people we passed on the walk back to our hotel were incredibly rude, classless, vulgar, and downright angry. I can't say most of what was told to us because I'd get banned, but some of the nicer things were, "Go f'n kill yourselves" or "I hope you die in a car crash on the way back to Nebraska". I think I heard Nebraska sucked about 100 times.

 

Now, every fan base has classless jerks, but this was unbelievable. Young, old, didn't matter. 1 person. ONE, told us good game and that he can't wait to visit Lincoln next year and good luck the rest of the way. I have witnessed first hand when someone is saying similar things to a visitor in Lincoln and other Huskers jump in and tell that person to shut up, not join in like Wisconsin.

 

I used to root for Wisconsin as an outsider because of what I thought they embodied was similar to Nebraska. No longer will I root for them. When 60% of the fans we encountered after the game treated us the way they did, I realized they are no different then Colorado, Missery, or K-State fans. I would hate to be a visitor from a team that has been a rival for 100 yrs with Wisconsin.

 

Recap. Friday night was pleasant. Saturday night's post game experience offset that by an infinite amount. That is how bad it was.

 

I'm sorry you did not enjoy your trip to Madison, that's too bad.

 

We know it is the 1% who screw it up for all of us. I'm going to give it a couple of trips before I pass judgement on a fan base. I save the " Just like CU" for the real sCUm .

To be honest I don't think your opinion will improve. The students will be students, we are known for having...hmmm how should I say, passionate...fans. All I can do is apologize and tell you that if you ran into me it would've been different.

I have to ask, what exactly do you guys want when you travel?

I went to an SEC school for my undergrad and saw many of the things mentioned above and worse (LSU especially comes to mind as does UGA). Maybe your expectations are a bit off. After all, you are invading another team's home, do you want to be coddled?

What schools have you found to be welcoming and hospitable to visitors? UT? OU?

Here is my experience. Friday night we went down to State St for some bar hopping. Nothing unusual about the night. We had the usual idiots who told us to F'n leave and that Nebraska sucked, but we also had some very good conversation and found the majority of the people there to be friendly. We even shared a van back to our hotel with Wisconsin fans and laughed and had a good time...Then was post game...

 

I am not kidding. I bet that 6 out of 10 people we passed on the walk back to our hotel were incredibly rude, classless, vulgar, and downright angry. I can't say most of what was told to us because I'd get banned, but some of the nicer things were, "Go f'n kill yourselves" or "I hope you die in a car crash on the way back to Nebraska". I think I heard Nebraska sucked about 100 times.

 

Now, every fan base has classless jerks, but this was unbelievable. Young, old, didn't matter. 1 person. ONE, told us good game and that he can't wait to visit Lincoln next year and good luck the rest of the way. I have witnessed first hand when someone is saying similar things to a visitor in Lincoln and other Huskers jump in and tell that person to shut up, not join in like Wisconsin.

 

I used to root for Wisconsin as an outsider because of what I thought they embodied was similar to Nebraska. No longer will I root for them. When 60% of the fans we encountered after the game treated us the way they did, I realized they are no different then Colorado, Missery, or K-State fans. I would hate to be a visitor from a team that has been a rival for 100 yrs with Wisconsin.

 

Recap. Friday night was pleasant. Saturday night's post game experience offset that by an infinite amount. That is how bad it was.

I'm sorry you did not enjoy your trip to Madison, that's too bad.

I can already tell this Nebraska-Big Ten marriage is going to be awkward.

 

Someone is going to have to replace the CU, MU, TX, OU. in our football lives and WU will surely take a heated rivals place. Iowa doesn't count because we've hated them in our real lives since 1867.

*UW, not WU. Sorry, just a small nitpick.

On that note, why do you guys call yourselves NU as opposed to UN or UNL?

Agreed that UW - Nebraska will probably become a rivalry (especially if they meet in the Big Ten-CG) you guys should reserve judgement until you run into Ohio State and Michigan fans before picking your "hated rivals", there are plenty of teams to hate, just wait.

How is the student section at Memorial Stadium? I've always been curious about that.

 

Fun, everyone stands the whole time, loud, but also stuck up in the corner of the stadium.

Are there student sections anywhere that sit? What an awful existence if there are...