Jeez. I have grown up my whole life in the shadow of Camp Randall Stadium, gone to games there every year of my life, every birthday party I've ever had has been at a Badger game since I was 3, (and that was in the mid 80's when we were one of about 10,000 people in the stands), basically grown up at the same time as the program has grown, and because I wanted to go to a different city for college I am a terrible person? I answered a question about the upcoming Wisconsin depth chart in a thread about the Wisconsin depth chart. Sure you have seen a lot of UW and IA trolls but I would expect you to be smart enough to differentiate between chest thumpers and people who come to talk football. I made no grand statements about Badger superiority, simply gave my opinion on this years team and brought up a point about the hypocrisy on both sides for ignoring the whole timeline of the programs in favor of a smaller sample of only successful years.
I have bleed Badger red my whole life, I am one of those few Wisconsinites who is way more into the Badgers then the Packers. My first job was selling hot chocolate in the stands of the Camp when I was 10. I remember when we were the conference punching bag and teams scheduled us for the automatic win. I remember when my friends and I could walk right into the games and sit on the 50 yard line after the third quarter because there were so few people there that they opened up the gates for free. I was at the michigan game in 93 and almost died in the crush, I was at the Dayne game when he made his first start and when he set the NCAA rushing record and 20 in between. I stayed up till 4 in the morning listening to the Hawaii game on the radio, trying not to wake up my parents, when he had 330 yards in three quarters as a true freshmen. And most vividly I remember dancing with my parents on State Street at 3 in the morning when we beat MSU in Tokyo to go to the Rose Bowl in 93. My teachers growing up have been former Badger football players three different years. Our high school team was coached by former Badgers. Our pee wee football championship game was played at Camp Randall, right on the terrible old astroturf. I went to high school with 4 guys who ended up playing football at UW. One of my closest friends growing up is now a coach on the team. I'm not some bandwagon fan, I grew up on the UW campus and Badger football has been an integral part of my entire life, good and bad.
And you think the proper thing to do is to abandon all of that because I wanted to experience a different city for college? I'm a trojan horse because I refuse to root against my entire upbringing? Ridiculous. Were you not Gopher fans your whole lives? You didn't start following college football until you were a student here? If you were a fan as a kid you would have had no problem rooting for UW or Iowa after a life time of rooting against them? Some interesting expectations of fandom there. Call me all the names you want I have no shame for being proud of the city where I'm from and yet choosing to broaden my world view somewhere else. I had my choice of both schools and I chose the U to get out of Madison. My academic loyalty is unquestionably with UMN, just not my athletic loyalty. Be ashamed of the other 20,000 U students who couldn't even name the starting QB and have never supported the football team.
I really hope Kill can turn the team around. Its no fun walking on eggshells around my friends because I don't want to kick them when they are down. Only time will tell if he's the right guy but he seems to have a solid plan in place. Even with all this I really just want to talk about football. All I ask is you judge me by the quality of my posts and not just blindly call me stupid because other Badger fans have run their mouths here before.
