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the past 50 some years? I don't think so. The Gophers have maintained a reasonable fan base even
though We haven't had a BIG TEN TITLE since 1967, and that was a tie with Indiana. Yet we've maintained a steady fan base of around 30,000 season tickets and crowds in the 40,000 range. We've
done this in a major professional market. In Wisconsin and Iowa it is the only game in town for the
general public, and for the students what the hell else are you going to do on a Saturday. Iowa City
and Madison aren't exactly cultural center's. I remember being in Madison during the Don Morton era
for a game and 30,000 fans might have been a stretch. Iowa before Harden Frey wasn't exactly packing them in. We keep hearing from the East and South what a pathetic fan base we've. Who's too
say they wouldn't be in the same boat or even worse if they had our record over the past 54 years.
As they.say, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. All you have to do is look at the
age of our season ticket holders to prove my point. There is a tremendous amount of loyalty there folks. So I salute all Gopher fans past, present , and future.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
the past 50 some years? I don't think so. The Gophers have maintained a reasonable fan base even
though We haven't had a BIG TEN TITLE since 1967, and that was a tie with Indiana. Yet we've maintained a steady fan base of around 30,000 season tickets and crowds in the 40,000 range. We've
done this in a major professional market. In Wisconsin and Iowa it is the only game in town for the
general public, and for the students what the hell else are you going to do on a Saturday. Iowa City
and Madison aren't exactly cultural center's. I remember being in Madison during the Don Morton era
for a game and 30,000 fans might have been a stretch. Iowa before Harden Frey wasn't exactly packing them in. We keep hearing from the East and South what a pathetic fan base we've. Who's too
say they wouldn't be in the same boat or even worse if they had our record over the past 54 years.
As they.say, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. All you have to do is look at the
age of our season ticket holders to prove my point. There is a tremendous amount of loyalty there folks. So I salute all Gopher fans past, present , and future.
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It seems awfully early in the day to be drunk. The bold part is such an awkward contraction...it just bothers me to no end. This seriously reads like a Ruppert parody post. I think you have officially jumped the shark.
 

Ruppert, you need to give up this obsession with Wisconsin (and Iowa). It smacks of insecurity.
 

I don't know and I don't care. All I know is even when the skunks and hog-eyes win, they still stink.

Go Gophers!
 

GopherHomer said:
It seems awfully early in the day to be drunk. The bold part is such an awkward contraction...it just bothers me to no end. This seriously reads like a Ruppert parody post. I think you have officially jumped the shark.
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Awkward contradiction? I'm making a " what if " post . Quit doing selective reading. Wouldn't you agree that Iowa and
Wisconsin are the two biggest rivalries? And wouldn't you agree they make comments like " Iowa North " etc. Why should we be the punching bag here? All I'm saying is with our football history over the last 50 some years I think
our fan base has been pretty loyal. If our main rivalries were Michigan and Michigan State I would use the same
scenario. A perfectly rational topic and you're trying to put a " Ruppertism " on it. Quit being judge , jury ,and hangman before you actually read the post.
 


ruppertflywheel said:
Awkward contradiction? I'm making a " what if " post . Quit doing selective reading. Wouldn't you agree that Iowa and
Wisconsin are the two biggest rivalries? And wouldn't you agree they make comments like " Iowa North " etc. Why should we be the punching bag here? All I'm saying is with our football history over the last 50 some years I think
our fan base has been pretty loyal. If our main rivalries were Michigan and Michigan State I would use the same
scenario. A perfectly rational topic and you're trying to put a " Ruppertism " on it. Quit being judge , jury ,and hangman before you actually read the post.
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ruppie. You do understand the difference between contraction and contradiction, right?

Good. Now read your last sentence.
 


There is nothing else in Iowa City. Their fans have no other choice than to be loyal.
 




Well Iowa is starting to have issues with tickets, as for becky ever seen highlights from the pre Alvarez era, camp randall looked like a morgue
 


This coach, this team and this program needs to beat the stinking badger to end this madness. Nothing short of a Gopher win on the football field, either on their Camp R Stadium Field or our TCF Bank Stadium Field will break this curse. Losing ten times in succession to the stinking badger is too much to tolerate. Something has got to give.

To hell with anyone who would attempt to mock your distaste for the stinking badger and the equally foul-smelling hawgeye. This University of Minnesota Football Coach...his staff...his team...the athletic director and who ever considers himself to be the top dog at the University of Minnesota can not rest until this losing streak has been ended. We share a border with wisky and we share a border with iowa. We MUST share the border-battle trophy with those states. The only way to be a part of a border rivalry tradition is to WIN the damn trophy once in a while and to have possession of the AXE and the PIG as close to 50% of the time as is possible at the very least.

Due to the curse of the stinking badger these last ten seasons: NO ONE on this board should criticize your passion for wanting balance and order returned to this border-battle-series. I don't think some of the people around here understand this stinking badger curse thing Ruppert. Give 'em hell and never let the bashers get you down.

Beat the stinking badger and end this curse NOW!
 

imthewalrus said:
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Agreed. Pigeye and BADger fans always have a smug aire of superiority about them. What bugs me most is the stupid Iowa fans who don't realize that we beat them regularly. BADger fans are on a whole other level. They act like they are kings of the conference when they don't realize that the sucked more than anyone before 1994. They will go back to where they are and we will go back to where we belong. Coach Kill will have this team ready to play and I know we are going to beat those bass turds in Dump Randall. I will be there to personally take the first swing at their goalpost. Next will be the stupid mascot.
 


ruppertflywheel said:
the past 50 some years? I don't think so. The Gophers have maintained a reasonable fan base even
though We haven't had a BIG TEN TITLE since 1967, and that was a tie with Indiana. Yet we've maintained a steady fan base of around 30,000 season tickets and crowds in the 40,000 range. We've
done this in a major professional market. In Wisconsin and Iowa it is the only game in town for the
general public, and for the students what the hell else are you going to do on a Saturday. Iowa City
and Madison aren't exactly cultural center's. I remember being in Madison during the Don Morton era
for a game and 30,000 fans might have been a stretch. Iowa before Harden Frey wasn't exactly packing them in. We keep hearing from the East and South what a pathetic fan base we've. Who's too
say they wouldn't be in the same boat or even worse if they had our record over the past 54 years.
As they.say, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. All you have to do is look at the
age of our season ticket holders to prove my point. There is a tremendous amount of loyalty there folks. So I salute all Gopher fans past, present , and future.
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I'm confused. Are we supposed to be impressed with 30,000 season tickets in a major metropolitan area?
 

Lets focus on beating these schools again. It shouldn't be celebrated when Minnesota beats a border school, it should be expected. The fan base point is a good one though. I always laughed at the posters who claimed we had a "fair weather" fans. I have been a Gopher fan all my life and have never experienced any of this "fair weather" (and no, seasons that end in a tie for 4th place in the conference don't count). I do think part of the reason the Gopher fan base may skew older is that 1967 fact. A kid who was ten years old for that title is now 56-57 years old. Most (not all, but most) people are going to move on after investing X number of years with no payback in the form of a championship.
 

Unregistered User said:
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An unregistered ABUSER such as this obnoxious wild animal with a keyboard inserted where the sun won't shine would never intimidate anyone who NEVER lets a ba$tard get him down.

Now, just buzz off little freak...
 

imthewalrus said:
An unregistered ABUSER such as this obnoxious wild animal with a keyboard inserted where the sun won't shine would never intimidate anyone who NEVER lets a ba$tard get me down.

Now, just buzz off little freak...
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Ah, the repartee of wren is something to behold!
 


ruppertflywheel said:
Unregistered User could use a dose of humble pie. He is pretty condescending. As in my sh-t don't stink.
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I'm...I guess I could use that same GIF to describe ^ post.

What the hell are you talking about? Your post was about how it's admirable that we still have a solid (if smaller than desired) core of fans that have stuck through a lot of thin and too little thick. I have no problem with that post. (just your interpretation of an early post)

Then wren gets on here and starts his typical rant, which had nothing to do with your OP, and starts to derail yet another thread to suit his agenda.
 

Killjoy said:
Ah, the repartee of wren is something to behold!
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killjoy: go home to your mamma before you get yourself in a mess. You will NOT keep on with your incessant obnoxious tag-a-long act. You taunt and taunt and keep pushing. I typically don't tell you off because I don't want to bore the other posters. But: you WILL stop your naughty behavior now. You will stop making a stupid comment after most of my stupid, poorly written, yet straight from my heart posts about Golden Gopher Football. Now, your mamma wants you killjoy...run home and don't stop to play along the way. She knows what a bad little person you can be.

Enough is enough killjoy.

Your mamma is calling and you need to quit being such a naughty boy.
 



imthewalrus said:
killjoy: go home to your mamma before you get yourself in a mess. You will NOT keep on with your incessant obnoxious tag-a-long act. You taunt and taunt and keep pushing. I typically don't tell you off because I don't want to bore the other posters. But: you WILL stop your naughty behavior now. You will stop making a stupid comment after most of my stupid, poorly written, yet straight from my heart posts about Golden Gopher Football. Now, your mamma wants you killjoy...run home and don't stop to play along the way. She knows what a bad little person you can be.

Enough is enough killjoy.

Your mamma is calling and you need to quit being such a naughty boy.
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And again wren shows that he is the master of repartee or at least for a five year old.
 


Well I think we all have degrees of feelings about our two biggest rivals. If you have had dealings with one or the other that had a negative impact your feelings are going to be quite a bit stronger. I've had issues with both fan bases
since I started attending Gopher games in the mid 60's. I won't bore with stories, but they certainly left a message of
total disrespect for both group's ; more so with.Becky. So unlike many others, I don't question Gopher fans on this site that lay it on these two fan bases.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
Well I think we all have degrees of feelings about our two biggest rivals. If you have had dealings with one or the other that had a negative impact your feelings are going to be quite a bit stronger. I've had issues with both fan bases
since I started attending Gopher games in the mid 60's. I won't bore with stories, but they certainly left a message of
total disrespect for both group's ; more so with.Becky. So unlike many others, I don't question Gopher fans on this site that lay it on these two fan bases.
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And that has nothing to do with your Original Post.

It was about support for our program, and I largely agree with that.

Then, on cue, wren shows up and ****s in the punch-bowl.
 

Unregistered User said:
And that has nothing to do with your Original Post.

It was about support for our program, and I largely agree with that.

Then, on cue, wren shows up and ****s in the punch-bowl.
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Well, I haven't seen too many topics on the hole that stay on the original topic. I agree, wren has a way of spinning things that circle the globe. I'll give each him this, he is a loyal and staunch supporter of Gopher football and has been throughout this horrible drought. It is tough to do, but sometimes you need to read his passion between the
lines. I'm sure many of the new generation on this site think both Wren and I are crackers on some of our posts.
Hell, even some of the baby boomers on here think I'm missing my high beams. The bottom line is both of us have
our ass in the seats for Gopher football, and have done so for a long time. That loyalty should cut us some slack even
on the hole.
 

ruppertflywheel said:
Well, I haven't seen too many topics on the hole that stay on the original topic. I agree, wren has a way of spinning things that circle the globe. I'll give each him this, he is a loyal and staunch supporter of Gopher football and has been throughout this horrible drought. It is tough to do, but sometimes you need to read his passion between the
lines. I'm sure many of the new generation on this site think both Wren and I are crackers on some of our posts.
Hell, even some of the baby boomers on here think I'm missing my high beams. The bottom line is both of us have
our ass in the seats for Gopher football, and have done so for a long time. That loyalty should cut us some slack even
on the hole.
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There are a lot of people in my life that I care deeply about, and I'm more than happy to call them an asshole when they're acting like assholes.

I don't think of you as an asshole. Just a bit too obsessive about wisky and their impending doom (every year).

wren is an asshole.

And now we have another spur to derail this thread.
 

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