Wisconsin33

Is it legal to do rail coke in your lib state? No. You'll have to smuggle in your own sh**ty $7 handles of Ron Diaz from Lincoln and drink it with some Sams Club Cola in the back of your 1997 pickup truck in a random parking lot if you want to do that. Then again... that's the typical Lincoln or Iowa City tailgating experience, so it shouldn't be anything new for you people.

Hope you are treated well! Love, Buckyville

What is this "Wisconsin Nice" you are contriving? No such thing exists.

Just... awful. You guys can have it. Win or lose. Really.

Oh, save me from the Nebraska victim Olympics... At least until after the game on Saturday. I was just joking...Obviously I don't think you are a 19 year old girl. Notice that I followed up with some thoughtful suggestions of where you actually might have a more enjoyable time. Sheesh, Corn Nation is on edge this week!

Wisconsin 42 Nebraska 18 -------------------- Nebraska Stats: Rushing: 105 Passing: 130 Wisconsin Stats: Rushing: 430 Passing: 150

Whiskey Jack's? Are you a 19 year old girl who wants to get wasted on rail rum and cokes? Go up to the Capitol Square an go somewhere decent likeThe Old Fashioned or The Great Dane. If you must go to the college bars, at least go to the Kollege Klub or State Street Brats, I guess.

Jesus... wtf is wrong with you people?

We don't want a rivalry trophy with you. We have plenty of rivals already.

Come on, man. That's straight up Gopherhole.com-esque. You're better than that.

And which game in the series, from a Nebraska blowout perspective, led you to this fascinating conclusion? The recent 1965 showdown?

Right. The OP is the most delusional thing I've ever heard in my life. Approaching Gopherhole.com levels. You've got to earn that "1990s fear" you are seeking. Nebraska has done little to garner that in the last 15 years.

Are you who are making the trip going to "pack the black" again this year?

Hey, we never said we were trying to compete with you for the "treating visiting fans nicely award." That's your feather to stick in your own cap. Like I said, if you were shocked at the way you were treated as a visiting fan in Madison, you didn't do your research. Wisconsin fans are scrappy and wary of visitors (especially when words like "invade" were used in 2011) As one other poster noted, we were very bad for a very long time. That era is still in purgatory. Wisconsin fans just want to win the Big Ten Championship by running the football behind a huge line and with a bunch of walk-ons. And drink a lot of beer in a beer garden.... and eat good cheese... and watch our bb team win the Big Ten and go to the Final Four again... and watch our hockey team go to the Frozen Four...but that's besides the point!

If you don't think Melvin Gordon hasn't had this game circled on his calendar since last spring, you are unaware at how personally the guy takes the Nebraska game/ playing against Abdullah. Melvin Gordon wants to be the best running back in the Big Ten, as well as in the country. He respects AA, but you can take it to market that he is going to want to have the game of his life next Saturday against the guy. Wisconsin expects to win the Big Ten West this year, and we've known for a long time that this Saturday will determine that. Oh yeah... and don't expect a warm welcome in Madison. We don't like you (or any other Big Ten schools). Apparently a bunch of you were shocked when you didn't get one last time you came to Madison. Here's your public service announcement.

Bingo. That's exactly how we had felt for 100 years about Michigan and Ohio State. To them, we were just another team to beat on their way to the Big Ten title. We hate them because they have ruined our seasons since time immemorial. Take a survey of how many teams in the Big Ten consider those schools a "rival". Every school wants to say that OSU and Mich are a "rival". The truth is that they aren't. They are just mad because they have gotten massacred by those schools for years. Now you begin to understand where all this culture of vitriol toward one another comes from. Big Ten schools want to win. We don't have any love for other league teams, because they have none for us. To be a loser in this conference is the worst possible thing imaginable; trust me, Wisconsin was there at a time. Now you are getting a taste of how truly awful it can be- even to lose just a few games. Your appetite for putting on the "Nebraska Nice Fans" show will subside. After a few more years of your seasons getting ruined by other Big Ten teams, it will be gone, and then you will understand what it means to be in The Big Ten.

Yes. Just as it will suck when Purdue starts regularly winning the division by beating us. The good news for Wisconsin fans is that, so far, you or them doing that is not likely to happen.

It's been 20 years since Penn State joined the conference. They have yet to magically develop an identity in the conference and still lack a rival. They are still the outsiders and they bitch about it all the time. I don't blame them. It would suck not to belong anywhere. When conferences are manufactured like they have been today, I really think the endgame is that they just won't work. We expanded to the East and added UMD and RU for the TV sets, yes, but I think people underestimate how much of that decision was made to appease appendage Penn State who was alleged to be having casual conversations with the ACC because they know that the Big Ten move hasn't worked. They've never been happy here and we've never been happy with them here. They are not a Midwest school. The truth is that the Big Ten has never been, and probably will never be their true home. It doesn't help that their football program has sucked balls since they joined the conference compared to what it used to be before they made the move. Will that happen to Nebraska? I'm not sure. I think you guys are a better cultural fit than Penn State, but nonetheless, you are an outsider. You were added for more short-term money. There was very little natural about it. The tectonic plates of realignment are still moving. Manufactured parts lack the roots that an organically formed body has that naturally holds itself together through time and change. Right now, the only thing that Penn State, Nebraska, Rutgers and Maryland have roots in this conference in are TV dollars. How long will that factor last? 20 years? 30 years? 50 years? Will the Big Ten still be a cash cow 30 years from now? Perhaps we are at the edge of a continued slump that relegates our football to an Ivy League-esque future of futility in the sport. What would be the incentive for you add-ons to stay at that point? What if the Big XII ends up being a wildly rich conference and comes knocking? You would go back. Same with the Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland and the ACC or SEC. That is where the difference lies. TV destroyed your rightful home (The Big 8) and has done a hell of a job in f'ing up our rightful home (The true Big Ten... with Ten schools). You should be playing Missouri and Oklahoma. Penn State should be playing West Virginia, Pitt and Maryland. TCU should be playing Houston, Baylor and SMU. THAT is right, and everyone knows it. That is where stability is. The influence of TV contracts on re-alignment is one of the biggest tragedies of college football, in my opinion. The only way that things will ever really stabilize is when that factor is eliminated. I have no idea when that is going to happen. Until then, I feel bad for you guys.

Do Badger fans care about The Axe? Absolutely! That behemoth was introduced in 1948, as another poster alluded to, to replace the Old Slab of Bacon trophy that had disappeared a few years before that. The Axe commemorated what was already an extremely heated rivalry that already had 57 meetings. That means that it already had extreme significance to both players and fans. Today (and since 2003) The Axe is displayed in a massive glass trophy case in the middle of the Wisconsin locker room to serve as year-round motivation to the team. For fans, the significance is visible when thousands stick around after the Minnesota game to watch the goalposts get chopped down, and as the sidelines are packed with people who want to get a chance to touch the trophy as the players take a lap around the stadium with it. The Axe is also brought and displayed across the State during various festivals, The Wisconsin State Fair, county fairs and Badger athletic events. The trophy with Iowa also took some immediate significance because it also commemorates a preexisting rivalry and history, but it is certainly less important than The Axe.

Speak for yourself....It's being forced on us. Trust me.

Looks like your rivalry dreams are coming true! Congratulations! https://twitter.com/RealMikeWelch/status/493813459071799296

You just say that because you want your big brother to consider you a rival. Funny how no one else in the conference has ever bought into that narrative. Oh Sparty... you can climb Mount Everest, but at the end of the day you'll still be mSu.

Personally, I don't think you need to worry about anything. It's going to be much different than your first trip to Madison. The last time Nebraska came to Madison, there were incessant national media rumors of a supposed 40,000 Nebraska fans coming to "take-over" Camp Randall, which had really aggravated Wisconsin fans and students who are particularly territorial of Camp Randall. It was ESPN Game Day, a night game, Nebraska's first Big Ten game and the Taylor vs Russell story line which added a bit more fuel to the fire as well. This time, it will probably be a sleepy 11:00 am game, and let's face it, it's not like Michigan or Ohio State's coming to town. We don't hate you, really. Now, if we are both somehow undefeated going into the match up, the plot thickens...

I'd say you'd probably be treated no worse than when you beat the Gophers in Minneapolis last year.