The last time I comment on Badger Fan

[Count 'Bility]

All these stories that I've started hearing since I was old enough to understand in the mid 90's of trips to Colorado, then Kansas St, then Missouri. Then I started to hear stories of piss-ons such as Iowa St, the trip to Iowa in 99. Now it's Wisconsin, and who knows what more is to come. My parents took 2 separate road trips to Colorado and wouldnt go back if they were paid to. I've never been to a road game and never will. I couldnt imagine what my temper would get me into if someone threw a "piss bomb" at me. It would be devastating to my personal record. I prefer to stay at home where I know I can remain peaceful surrounded by my homies.

 

You really should expand your horizons. I have been to most of the B1G stadiums and go to whichever bowl the Badgers are in each year, as well as numerous hockey venues. In my experience, if you have a good sense of humor, don't expect things to be "like they are at home," and honestly enjoy seeing how the other side lives, you will have a good time. Some places I like better than others, but to deny yourself the intellectual enjoyment of new experiences because of what "might happen" is looking at things incorrectly, IMO. New experiences make you grow.

I would love to visit a couple. Ohio St comes to mind. Oklahoma is/was a big one. My parents said is was nearly funner in both 94 and 2000 than any game in Lincoln. The lack of road trips for us stems from more of lack of time and money to do so. We use up all our moneys on all the home games, and quite frankly I use time on the road weekends to get things done with my time pig of a hobby and the family as well. But one thing is for certain is I have no interest in visiting any place such as Boulder, Manhatten, Madison, or Iowa City, where no matter the outcome or matchup, the bad examples outweigh the good by more than a plenty.

[Saunders]

So where's our resident frontrunner badgergamecock bucky been?

[TAW]

All these stories that I've started hearing since I was old enough to understand in the mid 90's of trips to Colorado, then Kansas St, then Missouri. Then I started to hear stories of piss-ons such as Iowa St, the trip to Iowa in 99. Now it's Wisconsin, and who knows what more is to come. My parents took 2 separate road trips to Colorado and wouldnt go back if they were paid to. I've never been to a road game and never will. I couldnt imagine what my temper would get me into if someone threw a "piss bomb" at me. It would be devastating to my personal record. I prefer to stay at home where I know I can remain peaceful surrounded by my homies.

 

You really should expand your horizons. I have been to most of the B1G stadiums and go to whichever bowl the Badgers are in each year, as well as numerous hockey venues. In my experience, if you have a good sense of humor, don't expect things to be "like they are at home," and honestly enjoy seeing how the other side lives, you will have a good time. Some places I like better than others, but to deny yourself the intellectual enjoyment of new experiences because of what "might happen" is looking at things incorrectly, IMO. New experiences make you grow.

I would love to visit a couple. Ohio St comes to mind. Oklahoma is/was a big one. My parents said is was nearly funner in both 94 and 2000 than any game in Lincoln. The lack of road trips for us stems from more of lack of time and money to do so. We use up all our moneys on all the home games, and quite frankly I use time on the road weekends to get things done with my time pig of a hobby and the family as well. But one thing is for certain is I have no interest in visiting any place such as Boulder, Manhatten, Madison, or Iowa City, where no matter the outcome or matchup, the bad examples outweigh the good by more than a plenty.

 

I don't think either Madison or Iowa City should intimidate you; I can't speak to the others. If you come to Madison, I will personally escort you around and make sure you have fun. Email me: numenlumen2003@yahoo.com

[Nebula]

I don't think either Madison or Iowa City should intimidate you; I can't speak to the others. If you come to Madison, I will personally escort you around and make sure you have fun. Email me: numenlumen2003@yahoo.com

+1 For representing your Badgers awfully well.

 

That's pretty clear evidence that pigeonholing all Badger fans as boors is foolish.

 

You ever see a Colorado fan put his personal email address on a message board and offer to personally escort a visiting fan around? I think this guy is being straight up with his offer.

[Count 'Bility]

I don't think either Madison or Iowa City should intimidate you; I can't speak to the others. If you come to Madison, I will personally escort you around and make sure you have fun. Email me: numenlumen2003@yahoo.com

+1 For representing your Badgers awfully well.

 

That's pretty clear evidence that pigeonholing all Badger fans as boors is foolish.

 

You ever see a Colorado fan put his personal email address on a message board and offer to personally escort a visiting fan around? I think this guy is being straight up with his offer.

dito that. We'll see in, what, 5 years? is it?

[BigRedBuster]

I find the discussion about how bad Badger fans are funny.

 

I have always been a fan of Alvarez. But, I keep going back to that he started his coaching career in Lexington Nebraska and their fans are very similar to the comments made about Wisconsin fans.

 

Just something I chuckle about.

[Peoriahusker]

I had a good time in Madison. The locals did make me take two shots of whisky when we hit a diner for breakfast at 10:00 in the morning, and another guy by the stadium selling beer outside his house (a very reasonable one dollar per) said they'd be "hanging and smoking" at his house after the game and we were more than welcome to come by.

 

Oh yeah, and an old lady welcomed us the second we got there and to us she hoped we really enjoyed our experience in Madison, was thrilled to have us, and wished us good luck.

 

Buuut,,,,two extraordinarily drunk, obnoxious, and antagonizing Badger fans sat in the visitor section, and they were borderline insufferable.

 

 

You're doing this wrong, I think. Usually people write off their good experiences and focus on their 10 cumulative seconds of interaction with idiots as their model for the entire UW fanbase.

 

I'm being sarcastic, of course, and appreciate that someone in a thread about Badger fans is above circle jerking. I've been to over 30 games at Camp Randall and, while I would agree with many that, on the whole, it's not an inviting atmosphere for visitors, I've never seen any violence and I've never seen anything more aggressive than the a-hole chant that students like to do. One entire side of the stadium faces a row of student houses and visitors definitely face an unusual experience in entering on that side.

 

The original post in this thread is a great example of confirmation bias:

 

"It didn't take long to have the "gentleman" in front of us standing up and waving his arms in our faces as Wisconsin scored."

 

To this person a fan cheering when his team scored was a.) a confirmation of a perception of an entire fan base and b.) an aggressive act. This tends to be how people perceive UW fans and I think it's very much based on preconceived notions, which I speculate come in part from sour OSU and Michigan fans canvassing the internet to warn people how awful all people in Wisconsin are. Two of my best friends went to Minnesota and returned to Madison for two games. Both times they were wearing bright yellow shirts (one of the games was a night game) and nothing more came of it than a few groups chanting at us.

 

Frankly, I don't believe most of the stories. I'd again concede that it's not an inviting atmosphere but I don't see how people find it to be hostile. I'm referring to Camp Randall so much because stories from visitors were where this recent reputation of the angry Badger fan stems from. Ultimately I'm inviting everybody to make their own minds up about the fan base because I find it sad that, in one year, it's gone from major excitement from both schools' supporters to a much murkier atmosphere.

 

I'll say it again, not one single person I've spoken to has said a good thing about their experience. I'm not sure if anyone is making anything up, but, I can tell you the time my wife and I had their SUCKED!

[Saunders]

So where's our resident frontrunner badgergamecock bucky been?

[krc1995]

So where's our resident frontrunner badgergamecock bucky been?

I think he deployed a few weeks ago

['SkersRule]

this is fun.

 

Waiting to to see the evil finger triangle of contemplation.