BleedGopher
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per Randy:
In Blake Cashman’s view, the prize at stake is a bit of a mystery. He knows it exists, he’s seen it and he knows its importance. But he’s never touched it.
“It’s everything. It’s what everybody talks about all year,” Cashman said. “I can’t even remember the Gophers ever having it, I’m so young.”
It, of course, is Paul Bunyan’s Axe, the trophy that goes to the winner of the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game. And the fact that Cashman, a 22-year-old senior linebacker for the Gophers, can’t recall the Axe being possessed by the Maroon and Gold isn’t shocking. He was 7 years old the last time the Gophers beat the Badgers, in 2003.
On Saturday afternoon, the Gophers will try to end the Badgers’ 14-year stranglehold on the series and bring the Axe back to Minneapolis. That won’t be easy, because Minnesota hasn’t won at Camp Randall Stadium since 1994, when a Gophers team that was a three-touchdown underdog stunned Wisconsin 17-14. Cashman wasn’t even born when that upset happened, but the trophy’s value isn’t lost on him.
“It would be very exciting because it’s something we haven’t done here in a very long time,” Cashman said.
http://www.startribune.com/for-goph...ld-also-earn-them-bowl-eligibility/500793032/
Go Gophers!!
In Blake Cashman’s view, the prize at stake is a bit of a mystery. He knows it exists, he’s seen it and he knows its importance. But he’s never touched it.
“It’s everything. It’s what everybody talks about all year,” Cashman said. “I can’t even remember the Gophers ever having it, I’m so young.”
It, of course, is Paul Bunyan’s Axe, the trophy that goes to the winner of the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game. And the fact that Cashman, a 22-year-old senior linebacker for the Gophers, can’t recall the Axe being possessed by the Maroon and Gold isn’t shocking. He was 7 years old the last time the Gophers beat the Badgers, in 2003.
On Saturday afternoon, the Gophers will try to end the Badgers’ 14-year stranglehold on the series and bring the Axe back to Minneapolis. That won’t be easy, because Minnesota hasn’t won at Camp Randall Stadium since 1994, when a Gophers team that was a three-touchdown underdog stunned Wisconsin 17-14. Cashman wasn’t even born when that upset happened, but the trophy’s value isn’t lost on him.
“It would be very exciting because it’s something we haven’t done here in a very long time,” Cashman said.
http://www.startribune.com/for-goph...ld-also-earn-them-bowl-eligibility/500793032/
Go Gophers!!