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I can see how fights start in the stadium. This was a new experience for me. I had never been to a rivalry game in person. Many of the Wisconsin fans on the way out and on the bus were nice & showed good sportsmanship. However, the Wisconsin fans in our area were horrible. On every single play they would taunt the folks around them. This went on for the whole game. I'm in my 50's ...pretty calm by nature but they were causing me to want to "throw down the gloves" and mix it up.
 

We had a mixture of obnoxious badger fans and some subdued ones around us, the problem was there were just too many. It's disappointing to see how many Gopher fans whore their tickets out to Badger buyers. The obnoxious ones with the constant childish comments are just insecure. They know they have won many lucky and bizarre ending games in the rivalry, and that this game (like most of them) could have gone either way. All the level-headed badger fans we talked with really liked the stadium.
 

didnt make it to the game but if i was there i know i would have a hard problem not atleast saying something to them at the very least
 

Iowa

Iowa fans are 100 times worse.

There were a lot of classy Badger fans but I have almost never come across a classy Hawkeye fan at a Gopher game.

Every team can have a few idiots, including us, but Iowa is in a class(less) by themselves.
 

Maybe they were just taking after some not so nice Minny acted the same way first.
 


MNSpaniel said:
I can see how fights start in the stadium. This was a new experience for me. I had never been to a rivalry game in person. Many of the Wisconsin fans on the way out and on the bus were nice & showed good sportsmanship. However, the Wisconsin fans in our area were horrible. On every single play they would taunt the folks around them. This went on for the whole game. I'm in my 50's ...pretty calm by nature but they were causing me to want to "throw down the gloves" and mix it up.
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IIRC there were threads on this forum encouraging season ticket holders that sat near the visitors section to, shall we say, "make the visitor's TCF Bank Stadium experience uncomfortable, especially Wisconsin's." Could what you are reporting be a response to that heckling?
 

I just grow weary of the visiting fans being rude and disrespectful. We had to listen to an obnoxious guy go on and on, ripping Brewster, ripping our team, for the entire second half. When some guys behind him had enough and said something to him, he screamed a few expletives and then flashed his tshirt to show us he was supposedly a US Marshal and made some crack about being able to arrest anyone he felt like. Nice. So now he's giving Wisconsin AND the US Marshal program a bad name (although who knows if this dude really is one or not--frightening to think he might be allowed to carry a gun on a regular basis).

I just don't get it, I guess. Rivalries are rivalries and it's good fun to support your team and take some pride in a victory, but why does it have to be delivered in a rude, crude, obnoxious way? Just don't get it. Hard to teach my kids good sportsmanship when they have to listen to that stuff for 3 hours.
 


Their wisky fans, no level of rude, crude, or disrespectful behavior would surprise me in the least bit. They have zero class.
 



I have one season ticket and is had to sit between Becky fans on my right, left and behind me. They were obnoxious to say the least. Becky fans don't need someone to provoke them, so please don't blame it on Gopher fans egging them on. It was the worst experience I've had at a Gopher game in the 14 years I have a season ticket. So much so, I left my seat after the 3rd quaurter because I was really getting peeved and didn't want say something I would regret. The loss was bad enough, but having to sit by these jerks made it that much worse. I shouldn't have to put up with this crap in my home stadium.
 

Corporate seating

I paid extra for my seats this year. An extra $250.00 bucks per seat - thinking that these seats would be filled with die-hard Gopher fans. Boy was I wrong. We had red all around us and we were completely surrounded. 'Most' of the older wisconsin fans were just okay - but the younger they were...the more obnoxious and filthy mouthed. The worst experience at a home game that I have ever sat through. I can't believe that visiting fans think that they can act that way. There were several extremely drunk girls wearing red sitting two rows behind me (looked like they were about 19-20 years old) that were unbelievably rude. Slovenly(sp?) drunk. They knew absolutely nothing about the game of football and were run running their mouth the entire game. I finally turned and asked them if their parents were at the game. They told me to f-off and they then started chanting back and forth with each other saying "_uck you - Eat _hit". What ever happened to checking for these drunken idiots upon entering the stadium? I was disgusted by this behavior and I can't believe that this is what college football means to these people. The older wisconsin folks said absolutely nothing to these drunken girls and stated that 'wisconsin is good football isn't it?'. What a bunch of f'ed-up people.

I still can't believe it....! There were several families (Gopher fans) with young kids that evidently left the section because of what was going on.
 

Some of you folks should look in the mirror. Others should take a look at the Branko Nagurski posts. He was preaching physical assaults on the Badger fans.
 

In my section there was a Gopher fan sitting by a section exit was screaming at other Gophers fans who were leaving early. Security actually had to come up and tell the guy to shut up.
 



UliKunkel said:
Some of you folks should look in the mirror. Others should take a look at the Branko Nagurski posts. He was preaching physical assaults on the Badger fans.
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How about if everybody just takes responsibility for their own civility?
 

Night and day experience for us.

We had a wisconsin couple in front of us who were very pleasant. They were obviously rooting for their team (who can blame them) but were not rude at all or dissing the Gophers in any way. Then there were a couple of guys about 5 rows in back of us who were the biggest jerks I've ever encountered at a sporting event. I can't believe no-one punched them. My wife stopped me as I was about to start mixing it up with them. Like everywhere, wisconsin has classy fans and a-hole fans and everything in between. It sure does seem, though, that the jerks are far more numerous.
 

gopherfaith said:
I just grow weary of the visiting fans being rude and disrespectful. We had to listen to an obnoxious guy go on and on, ripping Brewster, ripping our team, for the entire second half. When some guys behind him had enough and said something to him, he screamed a few expletives and then flashed his tshirt to show us he was supposedly a US Marshal and made some crack about being able to arrest anyone he felt like. Nice. So now he's giving Wisconsin AND the US Marshal program a bad name (although who knows if this dude really is one or not--frightening to think he might be allowed to carry a gun on a regular basis).

I just don't get it, I guess. Rivalries are rivalries and it's good fun to support your team and take some pride in a victory, but why does it have to be delivered in a rude, crude, obnoxious way? Just don't get it. Hard to teach my kids good sportsmanship when they have to listen to that stuff for 3 hours.
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Amen. It is fun to visit a rivals stadium and take in a game, but you are still a guest. Supporting your team does not give you the right to be a jerk. I apologize your children had to listen to that. As one of my professors once said "There are SOB's everywhere, even here."
 

In Section 242 there were fortunately very few Badger fans; maybe 12 or 15 that I could see. Most tried to be obvious in their cheering; that's expected. It could be considered obnoxious when it hurts so much. There was just one Badger jerk who was rude, crude and generally acted as if he was inviting a fight. Really strange behavior around an old, $250 donation-type Gopher crowd who I have to work on to get to even stand on 3 down defensive plays. As always, a few Badger jerks make them all look bad.
 

Nine said:
Iowa fans are 100 times worse.

There were a lot of classy Badger fans but I have almost never come across a classy Hawkeye fan at a Gopher game.

Every team can have a few idiots, including us, but Iowa is in a class(less) by themselves.
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this. sadly these a$$es are rewarded by civil people trying to avoid their stupidity and confrontation, thus they even become worse. i am actually hopeful that the alcohol policy will have a favorable impact on the pigeon experience.
 

I sit halfway up in Sec 231 right next to the student section. Very disappointed that they last 10-15 rows of student seating was empty at game time. By the mid point of the first half, at least 50 Wisky fans had filled in. Is the student section open game for anyone? Why can't security go through and check tickets? Needless to say this gang of Badger fans where profane and obnoxious. For the poster who said Iowa fans were 100 times worse: I doubt it.
 

Did those of you sitting by ahole WI fans say anything to security to get them kicked out? Like the NFL, the U should take away season ticket accounts from those who sell their seats to fans that can't act civilized.

Be sure to thank the MN season ticket holders next game for selling their tickets to WI aholes.
 

I was one of the unfortunate ones to not get into the game in time. I got to my seats(section 217) with about 4 minutes left. My cousin and I preceeded to stand the rest of the quarter. I usually like to stand but I rarely stand the entire game. I wasn't there 90 seconds and I had BAdger fans throwing ice and me to sit down and was getting cussed out as well. One Badger fan went as far as to get a security guard and tell me to sit down. I tried to explain to the officer that all I was doing was standing and cheering on my team. He reminded me that the fan that causes the most rucious is escorted out.

Well I stood 95% of the game and I don't intend to sit on my hands for any game. If Gopher fans would have asked me to sit down more often I would have considered it. But for an opposing fan to ask me to sit in my stadium, and for the security guard to even listen to them is amazing. I plan on passing this on to Maturi and Brewster.

And for those of you who think I was probably drunk. There are both Badger and Gopher fans around me that thought the Badger fans were out of order. The guy who went to get security responded after the game with a witty comment such as "F*ck you".

His witt took me back, I wondered if he finished high school.

CRAW
 

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