They should be shot on the spot, no questions asked.
Growing up as a Gopher fan all my life, I wonder if I had gone to UW if I would wear Gopher stuff around campus. It would be hard to shake that loyalty built up since childhood.
It's time to scrap reciprocity.
Growing up as a Gopher fan all my life, I wonder if I had gone to UW if I would wear Gopher stuff around campus. It would be hard to shake that loyalty built up since childhood.
My wife's cousin is like this. She went to the U but only cheers for the Badgers. I think it is fine to cheer for your hometown team, especially when you grew up a fan of that team. But I don't understand cheering against the school you graduated from when the two play each other. My school will never play the Gophers in any sport, but if they did, I would be cheering against the Gophers for that one game.
These type of people are the ultimate bandwagon fans in my opinion. If it were reversed and the Gophers had won the last 10 games, these same people would be wearing Minnesota gear instead of Wisconsin.
The only excuse for me would be someone who went to undergrad at UW and is now a grad student at the U. Most people have more of a connection with the school they went to their first four years.
I can't even imagine this happening. I feel like you would get stopped every two minutes and asked if you needed help finding anything since you must obviously be a visitor here for a conference or something.
I can't even imagine this happening. I feel like you would get stopped every two minutes and asked if you needed help finding anything since you must obviously be a visitor here for a conference or something.
What would happen in College Station if there was someone in burnt orange on campus?
What would happen in College Station if there was someone in burnt orange on campus?
It happened once. They only found his clothes.
It seems to me that if you're a fan of one school, but choose to attend that school's rival, you've already shaken that loyalty. It just seems really odd to separate the team from the school - it seems strange to say "I'm a fan of the team, but not the university". Alma mater ought to mean something.
Of course, people are free to root for whatever team they want. We're free to point and laugh.
If one had a very specific school/major that was ranked much higher than the other I could understand it.It seems to me that if you're a fan of one school, but choose to attend that school's rival, you've already shaken that loyalty. It just seems really odd to separate the team from the school - it seems strange to say "I'm a fan of the team, but not the university". Alma mater ought to mean something.
Of course, people are free to root for whatever team they want. We're free to point and laugh.
Some of you homers need to move around a bit and broaden your horizons. The U is a cosmopolitan place. I wore Nebraska the 15 years I lived in MSP and eventually went to the U. Blood always comes above all other loyalties.
There are plenty of people who grow up Gopher fans who choose to attend UW-Madison (and still remain Gopher fans). Some people choose to put their academic interests first and worry less about sports teams and rivalries when they're choosing a college and making a decision which will affect their future. What a terrible thing, right?!